Devotion
Acceptance And Repentance
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-207 ACCEPTANCE AND REPENTANCE From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. Let anyone who is without sin be the first to throw a stone… John 8:7. There are two ways to try to make another person change: order them to […]
The Power Of Determination
In one of his books Norman Vincent Peale tells about a ragged newsboy years ago in Chicago who displayed great determination. This young fellow used to huddle on a sidewalk grating near the Chicago Tribune building because the flow of heat from the presses operating in the basement kept him warm. From that vantage point, […]
Strength Out Of Weakness
Sample of Daily Encounter by Dick Innes “My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 12:9) In his book, Confidence, Alan Loy McGinnis talks about a famous study entitled “Cradles of Eminence” by Victor and Mildred Goertzel, in which the family backgrounds of 300 highly successful people […]
A Gratitude Revolution
Eight ways to make gratefulness permanent. By Anne A. Simpkinson For the first few weeks after the 9/11 attacks, most Americans felt a heightened sense of gratitude. As a New Yorker, I found myself suddenly grateful for things ordinary — water, a roof over my head, and electricity — and extraordinary, such as the flood […]
The Choice
(By Max Lucado) It’s quiet. It’s early. My coffee is hot. The sky is still black. The world is still asleep. The day is coming. In a few moments the day will arrive. It will roar down the track with the rising of the sun. The stillness of the dawn will be exchanged for the […]
In Touch With God
by Edward Heppenstall Christian Obedience JULY 29 THE LIGHTENED MIND I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. John 8:12 F. W. Boreham in his book, Arrows of Desire,* interprets a French proverb: “At night, all cats are grey …. […]
Meet Me In The Stairwell
You say you will never forget where you were when you heard the news on Septermer 11, 2001. Neither will I. I was on the 110th floor in a smoke-filled room with a man who called his wife to say goodbye. I held his fingers steady as he dialed. I gave him the peace to […]
Love The Opportunity
— by Jim Rohn, America’s Foremost Business Philosopher. Somebody said you have to love what you do, but that’s not necessarily true. What is true is that you have to love the opportunity. The opportunity to build life, future, health, success and fortune. Knocking on someone’s door may not be something you love to do, […]
Prejudice
Prejudices, like people, come in many varieties. Some people believe that all poor people are lazy, not seeing those who work 40 or even 60 hours a week, but at minimum wage, and still must struggle — nor the medical bills that quickly wipe out a family’s savings. Some poor people think all wealthy people […]
Words Of Wisdom
“Heavenly Father: Teach us that love and forgiveness are essential bridges that span the chasms of resentment and bitterness. Also, teach us that feeling gratitude without expressing it is like wrapping a gift and not giving it.” — Anonymous “God answers knee-mail.” — Anon. “To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is […]
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