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Doing right under pressure

In times of stress, substituting human effort for obedient faith is skydiving without a parachute and flapping your arms instead.

Visionary leadership

Godly leadership is more about vision than gender.

Choose life

God chose to offer us life, then He chose to let us choose. Now the choice is ours!

Prayer for a dark land

Biblical history strongly suggests that God is willing to forgive and restore a nation in response to the prayers of His people.

Delightful obedience

Obedience is not the means whereby we merit blessing. It is the evidence that we are grateful for blessings received.

Business integrity

Integrity in business is of paramount importance because it helps save society from moral pollution and ensure proper care for the downtrodden.

Generosity means business

The Christian businessperson’s major concern should be how to treat people, who have eternal worth, in a way that pleases God.

Spiritual laws of gravity

The pathway for God’s people to enjoy all that the Lord had provided for them was, and is, to obey God’s laws.

The way forward

We have an opportunity every day of our lives—to choose or refuse to trust.

Guilt, shame, and confession

Men should never be ashamed to admit their guilt, and they should never be guilty of denying their shameful actions.

Wholeheartedness

Divided loyalties make for halfhearted commitments, which in turn produce shallow convictions.

Hidden agendas

The natural tendency is to opt for that which is profitable, and popular. But better to be poor and right than wrong and rich.

Patience is a virtue

Not everything can be fixed the way we think it should be, but that does not mean that good cannot come out of the situation.

Whining about dining

The best way to get on board with God is to trust Him, obey Him, and be thankful for all He has given us.

God’s peace

We live in God’s peace when we have committed ourselves to the Captain of our salvation in ongoing, trusting obedience.

Suspicion

Matters of suspicion between husband and wife are to be dealt with honestly and openly with each other before the Lord.

Waiting patiently

It is precisely the promise of spring that makes the winter more palatable.

Hanging together

Communal celebrations bind Christians together with common roots and aspirations—all focused on the Lord Himself!

Holiness and picking grapes

Holiness shows itself in family relationships, in neighborliness, and in matters of compassion and justice.

Yom Kippur

Through Christ’s death the church has been cleansed and made holy—and sins are banished from God’s sight and memory.

Sacrificial forgiveness

Don’t assume you can forgive yourself. Let God do the forgiving. He can, and He will!

Faithfulness in the details

Faithfulness comes in many shapes and sizes, but it never includes shortcuts, shoddy materials, and half measures.

Craftsmanship

Many people have a tendency to destroy. More are needed who will beautify our world and glorify their Lord.

Praising God

Humans alone can explain the truth in glowing, vibrant terms that help men to see God’s glory and majesty.

Haves and have-nots

The powerful are not to exploit the powerless; the “haves” are to be concerned for the “have-nots.”

The I AM

“What’s in a name?” asked Shakespeare. Everything, if it is the name of the great I AM.

Secrets of Joseph’s success

When life is lived with God as the Lord, location is of secondary importance—whether it be the pedestal or the pit.

God’s presence

The one whose conscience is weighed down with his actions is not usually conscious of the Lord. But He is present nevertheless.

What’s in a name?

Names express who we are and whose we are. A lot can be expressed in a name!

Choices and consequences

Man’s freedom to choose his actions is one side of the equation, and God’s freedom to choose the consequences is the other.

God and the rat race

We may not see it in our lifetime, but there is hope that righteousness will ultimately triumph.

Counting the cost

As Jesus spelled out the ramifications of His lordship, people began to realize the far-reaching consequences of following Him.

Public life, private life

What the world needs is men of sound character who please God and bless humanity.

The sign of Jonah

If Christ is risen, He is all He said He was—the Messiah, the Son of God, the eternal king.

The seed and the soils

We are responsible for the sowing, but God is responsible for the growing!

Hair loss

Even the most minute details of people’s lives are known to God, and He cares about them. Deeply.

Roses have thorns

Jesus regarded the thorns of suffering as necessary in order for the roses of salvation to bloom. So should we.

Worship the Lord

Why should the devil have all the best tunes—and why should false gods get all the glory?

Trusting your own instincts

When it comes to our instincts, the key is to submit to God’s scrutiny, rather than to impose our intentions over His sovereignty.

Ichabod

Whether due to violent persecution or moral erosion, the health of the church is threatened in every generation.

The lost ark

Religious symbolism has never cured spiritual corruption. Only repentance and a work of God’s grace does that.

Hearing voices

Good listeners realize they are nothing more nor less than the Lord’s servant—ready to respond, “Yes, Lord,” to what they hear.

The Lord’s helper

Nothing can invest the mundane with a sense of magnificence quite like understanding that one is functioning as the Lord’s helper!

Promise keeping

Better not to promise than to promise and renege—and better still to promise and perform.

History and His story

History is not an endless succession of meaningless events. It is the story of the God of heaven at work on earth!

Missing the point

Jesus quickly exposed the fallacies in the arguments of those who saw Him as an ambassador of Satan by asking the question…

The barrenness of busyness

Spiritual nourishment flows to the life of the person who regularly takes time to listen to the Lord in His Word, responding in prayer to what the Lord has said.

Good Samaritans

Eternal life is about a free gift, not about a good life. But those who receive the gift will have a deep desire to live a good life.

The lambs versus the wolves

The secret of effective Christian ministry is not found in the extraordinary abilities of those who are sent, but rather in the sovereign authority of the one who sends.

The cost of discipleship

It is wonderfully liberating to exchange the shackles of selfishness for the benign restraints of Christ’s call, wherever it leads.

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