Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
I want you to focus on your relationships. I particularly ask you to focus on your best relationships. Would you please call to mind your three best, most successful relationships? By name and by face, focus on the three people with whom you have your finest relationships. Do you have ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Consider if you will a funeral for the passing of a beloved family member. A beloved grandmother in this case. After the funeral was over everyone gathered at the home.
The funeral is over. By mutual agreement, it was a celebration. A celebration was the only appropriate way to remember grandma. ...
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Several years ago a man started a rural business in a tiny community. His tiny farming community was located 150 miles from any town of any size. So he began by stocking things in small amounts that he knew the people in his area needed--a little feed, a little fertilizer, ...
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
The most powerful force in human life is love. Love will motivate people in ways that nothing else can. A husband who loves his wife will do things for her that he will do for no one else.
Love will endure in ways that nothing else can. Nothing can equal the ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
One of the more difficult realities all of us must deal with is the reality of failed expectations. In virtually every area of our lives we have expectations. Many of our expectations are very important to us. Our expectations are rooted in our hopes. Only when we are completely without ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Four or five times a week I work out at a gym. A Friend graciously and patiently allows me to workout with him. This is not a new experience. I been involved in exercise programs for over 20 years.
Why? Why exercise all that time? Why go to a gym and get into ...
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007
This week I have been grieved at heart. My heart grief does not come from any personal tragedies. Personally, it has been a week rich with blessings. The heart grief comes from knowing what is happening in the lives of some Christian friends. It arises from seeing what continues to ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
The last few Podcasts we have examined forbearance. Those three lessons are the background for our study tonight.
Obviously, the important question is this: how am I as a Christian to interpret the responsibility to be forbearing? What are the appropriate understandings and practices of forbearance?
I. To establish the context to answer ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
What answer would you give this person? I have heard people talk about Jesus, but I know nothing about him. My family was never religious. As a child, I never visited a church. I have been to a church very few times as an adult. I have heard that he ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Forbearance is such a difficult spiritual quality to embrace. First, we never need to be forbearing unless there is a tension, a stress, or a problem. When everything is fine, there is no call or need to be forbearing.
Second, being forbearing goes against our natures. When we are disturbed, or ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
This world is a dangerous place. Our society makes life complicated for all of us. Life is confusing. We contend with new experiences every day. No day has ever been like today, and tomorrow will also be unique. Every day the world changes; every day society changes; every day we ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
Forbearance is such a difficult spiritual quality to embrace. First, we never need to be forbearing unless there is a tension, a stress, or a problem. When everything is fine, there is no call or need to be forbearing. Second, being forbearing goes against our natures. When we are disturbed, ...
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
An ancient worship theme is the goodness of God. That theme has been prominent in worship in Judaism and in Christianity for at least 3000 years. For at least 3000 years, people have been praising God because He is good.
We do. For years we frequently declared the goodness of God. ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Every sincere Christian hungers to improve his or her spiritual understandings. Every person genuinely converted to Jesus Christ wants accurate knowledge. But to possess accurate knowledge, he or she realizes it is not enough to have accurate facts. It is just as important to have accurate understandings. It was the ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
We are too often disillusioned and defeated when our expectations are rooted in the ideal. For example, soon-to-be married Christians commonly expect their coming marriage to be idea. "In our marriage, we won't have problems. We will agree about everything. We will experience nothing but togetherness, happiness, and pleasantness. Our ...
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