To hear this Morning Devotion, please click From glance to gaze
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We all know the difference between a glance and a gaze.
Particularly when it comes to the topic of temptation and sin.
The momentary glance at the “hottie” who walks by your beach chair — and then you go back to reading your book — doesn’t [...]
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To heart this Morning Devotion, please click Risky riches
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The verse’s message was so clear: some much-adored measures for life success are actually the worst possible things that a person could gain.
It’s so ironic, but also so true.
Proverbs 15:17 says this, “Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with [...]
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To hear this Morning Devotion, please click Don’t skip the homework
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We’ve all had those occasions when we should have checked our facts about someone before jumping to conclusions about him or her.
It’s called doing your homework.
I spent many years as a journalist and it was crucial to do my homework before publishing articles about a [...]
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To hear this Morning Devotion, please click A harvest of refreshment
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Gossip destroys.
Kind words restore.
It’s that simple.
As I read, re-read and read again this morning the words of Proverbs 15:4, I could not get the above contrasts out of my mind.
“The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue crushes the [...]
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Satan is quite ambitious, of course.
That’s why he is such a hard worker.
He never gives up luring people into giving up on patience and godliness.
If he can manipulate them into exchanging the truth of God for a lie, then that is less praise that will flow to [...]
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