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IN TOUCH DAILY: FEBRUARY 8
How to Use Our Time Ephesians 5:6-21 The way we use our time reveals our values and priorities. Ephesians 5:16 encourages us to make the most of our time. Here are ways to do this: Receive Christ as Savior. The … Continue reading
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IN TOUCH DAILY: JANUARY 26
Sunday Reflection: The Blessing of God’s Promise The world around us is always changing, but that isn’t the case with its Creator. Consider God’s love: It’s not simply a trait He possesses but an attribute, an essential aspect of who … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: DECEMBER 12
Luckily Shasta had lived all his life too far south in Calormen to have heard the tales that were whispered in Tashbaan about a dreadful Narnian demon that appeared in the form of a lion. And of course he knew … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: OCTOBER 21
It is not only poems or statues which seem to say, “I am myself alone”. A sunset, a flight of birds past the window, the gesture of an athlete, or the sudden onset of rain – any of these, at … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: OCTOBER 11
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as “what a man does with his solitude.” It was one of the Wesleys, I think, who said that the New Testament knows nothing of solitary religion. … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MAY 27
Lewis, grieving the death of his wife, Joy: There’s a limit to the ‘one flesh.’ You can’t really share someone else’s weakness, or fear or pain. What you feel may be bad. It might conceivably be as bad as what … Continue reading
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DAILY HOPE: DECEMBER 14
Trying to Manage Your Time? Don’t Go It Alone “It’s better to have a partner than go it alone” (Ecclesiastes 4:9 The Message). We were created for community. We’re better together. We’re made for each other. We need each other. … Continue reading
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DAILY HOPE: APRIL 12
Make Time to Be Quiet “Find a quiet, secluded place so you won’t be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you … Continue reading
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DAILY HOPE: MARCH 16
Do You Have a Safety Net? “Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble” (1 Peter 3:8 NIV). As a pastor, I see situations daily that nobody should ever have to go through … Continue reading
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DAILY HOPE: MARCH 15
Working Together, We Can Accomplish More “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” (Ephesians 2:10 NIV). God put us on Earth to do a certain … Continue reading
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