Today’s Truth
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” (2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV)h
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There’s a game that I’ve played many times at conferences and retreats as an icebreaker activity. Each person has the name of a famous or infamous person taped to her back. Read more…
Today’s Truth
2 Corinthians 3:4 (NIV) “Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God. Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.”
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The three-headed monster of inferiority, insecurity and inadequacy can paralyze a Christian into inactivity and leave him or her sitting on the bench during the game of life … Read more…
Today’s Truth
“Blow a trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm on my holy mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the earth tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming, surely it is near” (Joel 2:1 NIV)
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In just a few days, you will most likely be taking down those Christmas decorations and packing them up until next year…when you will be pulling them out and decorating all over again! Read more…
Today’s Truth “When the angles had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ‘Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.” (Luke 2:15 NIV)
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Today I want to share with you a story that I wrote a few years ago. Read more…
Today’s Truth
“Suddenly a great company of heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom His favor rests’” (Luke 2:13-14 NIV)
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When my son was four-years-old, I overheard him singing “O Holy Night” in his best vibrato voice. Read more…
December 16, 2009
1 Corinthians 13 Christmas Style
Today’s Truth
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love” (1 Corinthians 13:13 NIV).
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With Christmas just around the corner, it is easy to get so busy with the cooking, Read more…
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Today I want to share with you a story that I wrote a few years ago. In it, I tried to imagine what it would have been like to be one of the shepherds that visited Jesus the first Christmas night. For just a moment, I want you to pretend that you are reading a letter that one of the shepherds wrote to his brother, Read more…
Today’s Truth
“I will praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well” (Psalm 139:13, 14 NIV).
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Myra was a woman battered and scarred from severe arthritis. Her legs were held captive in a wheelchair, but her soul was forever free. With one pencil in each crippled hand, Read more…
Today’s Truth
2 Corinthians 4:7 (NIV) “But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.”
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The speaker came out onto the stage. He pulled out a one-hundred dollar bill.
“Who would like this one-hundred dollar bill?” Read more…
Today’s Truth
1 Thessalonians 5:18 (NIV) “Give thanks in all circumstances.”
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Yesterday, we looked at how the grumbling Israelites were not allowed to enter the Promised Land because of their unbelief and grumbling attitude. Now, let’s take a look at what happened with the next generation.
The next generation learned from their parents’ Read more…
