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Trust your King
From a great chess player of Cincinnati, we learn that in the early part of the last century, an artist who was also a great chess player painted a picture of a chess game. The players were a young man and Satan. The young man manipulated the white pieces; Satan the black pieces. The issue…
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Freedom ‘for’
Robert Youngs gives this illustration: I have on my table a violin string… it is free. I twist one end of it and it responds. It is free. But it is not free to do what a violin string is supposed to do–produce music. So I take it, fix it in my violin and tighten…
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Allow the word of God to speak to you
The Bible is God’s word. The Bible is the way God speaks to us today. If the Bible is God’s word then we must adhere to every word and read it as if a letter from a dear friend. In fact the Bible is much more important to you than a personal letter from the…
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What is Christmas to you?
I wonder what Christmas means to a mother who has lost her husband, who must take care of three or four children, working every day, never quite getting everything done, never making ends meet. What does Christmas mean to her? I wonder what Christmas means to the little man in Zimbabwe, 80 years old, living…
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God’s heartbeat in us
The great paradoxes of the Bible. To live you must die; to be free you must serve; to know the truth you must see the lie. God is not trying to confuse us but to show us that His ways are not our ways, nor are His thoughts our thoughts. Isaiah 55:8. Here is another…
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Devils
Two 6-year-olds struggled with the problem of the existence of the devil. One boy said, “Oh, there isn’t any devil.” The other, rather upset, said, “What do you mean there isn’t any devil? It talks about him all the way through the Bible.” The first replied, “Oh that’s not true. You know, it’s just like…
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The mind is like Silly Putty
“The peace of God which passes understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4.7) Our minds are wonderful creations of God. But did you know they need to be guarded? When I was a boy I used to play with Silly Putty. You could do a lot of neat things with…
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Thanks be to God
On Sept. 16, 1620, two ships set sail from Plymouth, England: the Speedwell and the Mayflower. The Speedwell encountered much difficulty as they began their journey, springing many leaks in the ship. So when the two ships went to Port in Plymouth, England, the Speedwell decided to go no further, and 42 passengers from the…
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Moody’s dying words
Dwight L. Moody was an evangelist, soul winner, Sunday School organizer and founder of the Moody Bible Institute and the great Moody Church in Chicago. He was an uneducated man, but his life’s purpose was to see what God could do through a man totally surrendered to him. Moody died at the age of 62.…
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Facing down a mountain lion
Did you know that in the United States, mountain lions are the number one predator of human beings? So says author and naturalist Craig Childs. On one occasion, he was doing research on the lions in Arizona’s Blue Range Wilderness. As he approached a water hole from downwind, he spotted a mountain lion drinking water,…
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