ONE PERSON CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE Sample of Daily Encounter by Dick Innes “Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow — perhaps they all will.” (Ecclesiastes 11:6, TLB) In the light of the tragic events of this past week and the heart-breaking suffering of so many families, I trust the […]
Perhaps the best thing would be not to seek God’s direct guidance in making a career choice at all. Instead, I suggest you focus on reading the Bible to discern God’s guidance (it is His word, after all) in those things where He does explicitly guide man. Put another way, consider those things that God […]
1. THE GIFT OF LISTENING… But, you must REALLY listen. No interrupting, no daydreaming, no planning your response. Just listening. 2. THE GIFT OF AFFECTION… Be generous with appropriate hugs, kisses, pats on the back and handholds. Let these small actions demonstrate the love you have for family and friends. 3. THE GIFT OF LAUGHTER… […]
“When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.” — Benjamin Franklin “Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” — Charles F. Kettering “History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.” — B. C. Forbes. Cited in […]
We cannot choose how many years we will live but we can choose what those years will have. We cannot control the beauty of our face but we can control the expression on it. We cannot control life’s difficult moments but we can choose to make life less difficult. We cannot control the negative atmosphere […]
T O D A Y G O D I S F I R S T Marketplace Meditations by Os Hillman If an enemy were insulting me, I could endure it; if a foe were raising himself against me, I could hide from him. But it is you, a man like myself, my companion, my close […]
ONE PERSON CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE “And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none” (Ezekiel 22:30 KJV). In 1858, a Boston Sunday School teacher named Kimball began visiting one […]
E V E R Y D A Y L I G H T by Selwyn Hughes Keeping Fit for Jesus! “… physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things …” (v. 8) — For reading & meditation: 1 Timothy 4:1-12 We spend one last day meditating on the ways by […]
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-152 (Practical Christian Living) YESTERDAY, TODAY and TOMORROW There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is yesterday, with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. Yesterday […]
N E I L A N D E R S O N D A I L Y D E V O T I O N A L from Freedom in Christ Ministries September 16 THE VIEW FROM THE CROSS Whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it; but whoever loses his life for My […]