If you’re going to lead …
When I was a teenager, a pastor once told me, “There’s always someone watching your life.” That reminds me of a story about a pastor who was […]
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Nov
2013
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James Scott, Jr.
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Nov
2013
That’s saying a lot …
A young man wrote this note to his girlfriend: “Sweetheart, if this world was as hot as the Sahara Desert, I would crawl on my knees through […]
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Nov
2013
Are you too good to fail?
What’s the first thing you do when you mess up? A lot of us are like the veteran baseball player who got angry at his manager who […]
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Nov
2013
What’s your plan?
Most of us don’t develop strategies for living until we’ve messed things up and have to have them. Such as … … a strategy for losing weight, […]
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Nov
2013
To be a good writer, you sometimes have to be annoying …
Good writing is routinely annoying. It is! The best writing gets into our thoughts and stirs our emotions because, at some point, it will challenge our thinking […]
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Nov
2013
The need for negligence …
If you look at the lives of many who profess to be disciples of Jesus Christ, and compare them to the promises of Jesus, you often see […]
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Nov
2013
A few ways you can make this Christmas a richer experience …
Don’t you just love Thanksgiving and Christmas? I do! It’s more like a season of worship and celebration for the Christian. But with the growing influence of […]
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Nov
2013
The need to give up what you’re really good at …
Actor Nicolas Cage (pictured right, center) stars in a rather dark movie called “Lord of War,” in which he plays the role of a weapons dealer. In […]
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Nov
2013
You don’t have to sneak out at night to do this …
Nearly lost to the church in our day is the biblical concept of taking up someone else’s burden: “Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey […]
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Nov
2013
How Christians expand the influence of false teachers …
Christians often do more to expand the influence of false teachers among true believers than do those who embrace the false teacher. It happens when Christians choose […]