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To hear this Morning Devotion, please click  Some kind of dad, huh?
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King Hezekiah gets a really lousy grade as a dad in my opinion.
Yes, he did some good things during his reign over Israel’s Southern Kingdom centuries after King David. But he threw all that good will away, in my book, when he said […]

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To hear this Morning Devotion, please click  Giving perfectly
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It is a temptation that we all experience from time to time.
We give something valuable to a person as a sign of our appreciation for them, but the gift is seemingly taken for granted or perhaps barely acknowledged. Our human nature starts flexing its “I’m wounded/offended” […]

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To hear this Morning Devotion, please click Learning from others’ mistakes

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King Saul had a number of bad days, the Bible shows.
But two days stands out as the worst.
Those days, recorded in I Samuel 15, were an absolute disaster.
By the time the second day was over, Saul had lost his place as the patriarch of […]

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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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To hear this Morning Devotion, please click here — Dangerous presumptions
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Satan loves it when people fall into the trap of presumptuousness, particularly when it involves believers who should know better.
My call to you today is to reject such invitations for rushing to sour conclusions about others.
I plead with you to do your homework before you […]

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