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Encouraging Message Series for Young Believers
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Tag Archives: crisis
IN TOUCH DAILY: MARCH 12
Responding to Others’ Failures 2 Timothy 4:9-18 The apostle Paul sacrificed much. He faced hunger, shipwreck, beatings, and imprisonment to carry God’s Word to others. Consequently, he had every reason to expect the men and women he mentored to be … Continue reading
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Tagged absence, alone, anger, apostle paul, beatings, charles stanley, comfort, crisis, deserters, failures, faith, faithful, forgive, forgiveness, God, God's expectation, God's Word, hunger, imprisonment, in touch, Jesus, justified, loneliness, luke, mentored, pain, pharisee, preaching, prison, repented, resentment, road to damascus, rome, sacrifice, shipwreck, sin, stephen, stoned, support, sustained, trial
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: FEBRUARY 22
Screwtape reveals a powerful tool for distraction: What we want, if men become Christians at all, is to keep them in the state of mind I call ‘Christianity And’. You know—Christianity and the Crisis, Christianity and the New Psychology, Christianity … Continue reading
Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions
Tagged a year with c s lewis, c s lewis, change, Christianity, christians, church, counsel, crisis, difference, distraction, eating, enemy, faith, faith healing, fashion, fast, feast, folly, friendship, heresies, human heart, humans, inconstancy, infidelity, marriage, new order, new psychology, passions, permanence, pleasurable, psychical research, reality, religion, rhythm, same old thing, screwtape, seasons, spelling reform, the screwtape letters, vegetarianism
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DAILY HOPE: MARCH 24
Nothing Surprises God “Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be” (Psalm 139:16 NIV). God knows everything about your faults and failures and your … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Hope, Devotions
Tagged advice, bible, comforting, confidence, crisis, daily hope, discouraged, failures, Father, faults, frustrations, future, God, God knows, God will provide, interruption, life, lord, past, prepared, present, prideful, provide, rick warren, strength, surprise, tomorrow
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DAILY HOPE: MARCH 23
God Knows Everything, and That’s Good News “Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account” (Hebrews 4:13 NIV). Ever gotten out of … Continue reading
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Tagged bad news, bible, creation, crisis, daily hope, despair, everything, failures, faults, feelings, foolish, frustrations, God, God knows, God's sight, good news, hidden, hurt, loved unconditionally, pain, pretend, rick warren, satan, secrets, sins, surprised, tears, troubled, worries
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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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Tagged advice, alone, believers, build up, christians, committed, community, compassionate, crisis, daily hope, despair, difficult, difficult times, encourage, friendships, God, God's plan, good times, hard times, humble, inevitable, life, like minded, love one another, mourn, paul, pep talk, rejoice, rick warren, safety net, silence, suffer, sympathetic, tough times, tragedies, unprepared, waiting, weeping, words of wisdom
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DAILY HOPE: FEBRUARY 23
Trust God for the Help You Need “Then the man said, ‘Let me go, for the dawn is breaking!’ But Jacob said, ‘I will not let you go unless you bless me’” (Genesis 32:26 NLT). Obviously, when God and Jacob … Continue reading
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Tagged bless, bless me, blessing, character, crisis, daily hope, debt, discipline, financial crisis, financial miracle, foolish decisions, God, help, hope, jacob, life, money management, peace, persistence, prayer, provide, rick warren, struggle, trust, trust God, wisdom, wrestling
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DAILY HOPE: JANUARY 9
Focus on Faith, Not Feelings “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised” (Job 1:21 NIV). When you are … Continue reading
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Tagged baby Christian, bible, communication, crisis, daily hope, dependencies, discouraging, distant, emotions, faith, feelings, focus, God, God's presence, immature, intimate friendship, Jesus, job, life, lord, praise God, praised, rick warren, self centered prayers, trust, worship
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