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Morning Devotion: Pop quizzes

Pop quizzes aren’t always bad things.
When I was in school, whether as a kid or as a graduate seminary student, I didn’t like pop quizzes.
Taking a test with no studying and no advance warning left me feeling unprepared and vulnerable to academic failure.
I usually did OK with them because I had tried to pay attention […]

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Morning Devotion: Behavioral dynamite

There are three sticks of behavioral dynamite that are sure to blow up any Christian’s testimony.

Slow to listen

Quick to speak

Quick to get angry

If people in our families or workplaces or neighborhoods see us displaying these tendencies on a recurring basis, our Christian influence will vaporize into a frozen-in-place fog of failed testimony.
This does not have […]

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Morning Devotion: Lamb-leading 101

If you’re an adult leading a group of small children through a mountain gorge in order to reach a campsite on the other side, you’ll do all you can to find the least-threatening, least-strenuous path.
You want to make sure your little lambs don’t fall to their injury or death and that one of them doesn’t […]

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A parent’s responsibilities include teaching his or her child how to be a person of character whose values influence others toward what is right.
What a parent doesn’t want to see is his or her child being eroded in character because values are being influenced toward what is wrong.
I’m a blessed father because […]

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There are many people in many workplaces who are collecting paychecks today, in part, because of the outstanding performance of one person in the department or out on the sales route.
In a very real sense, the value of that one person’s efforts to serve and impress the company owner(s) prompted them to not discard the […]

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