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Encouraging Message Series for Young Believers
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: OCTOBER 16
The truest and most horrible claim made for modern transport is that it ‘annihilates space’. It does. It annihilates one of the most glorious gifts we have been given. It is a vile inflation which lowers the value of distance, … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MAY 29
On the Holy Spirit It is quite right that you should feel that “something terrific” has happened to you (It has) and be “all glowy.” Accept these sensations with thankfulness as birthday cards from God, but remember that they are … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: APRIL 18
Since God is blessed, omnipotent, sovereign, and creative, there is obviously a sense in which happiness, strength, freedom, and fertility (whether of the mind or body), wherever they appear in human life, constitute likenesses, and in that way proximities, to … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JANUARY 24
There is, perhaps, more social conscience than there has ever been before: and though chastity in conduct is probably low I think modern young people are perhaps less prurient and less obsessed with lascivious thought than more modest and decorous … Continue reading
DAILY HOPE: JUNE 11
What Is Your Greatest Ability? “Live life, then, with a due sense of responsibility, not as men who do not know the meaning and purpose of life but as those who do” (Ephesians 5:15 Phillips). You and I have a … Continue reading
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DAILY HOPE: APRIL 29
God Uses Our Talents to Test Our Unselfishness “God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another” (1 Peter 4:10 NLT). God uses our talents to test … Continue reading
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DAILY HOPE: MARCH 21
God Says You Are Capable “It is he who saved us and chose us for his holy work not because we deserved it but because that was his plan long before the world began — to show his love and … Continue reading
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DAILY HOPE: JANUARY 24
Your Significance Comes from Serving “Each of you has received a gift to use to serve others. Be good servants of God’s various gifts of grace” (1 Peter 4:10 NCV). To experience significance in life, you must serve with others … Continue reading
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MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST: JUNE 13
Getting There (3) …come, follow Me. —Luke 18:22 Where our individual desire dies and sanctified surrender lives. One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of our own individual temperament. We make our temperament and our … Continue reading
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