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To hear this Morning Devotion, please click
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A key measure of our faith is how we conduct ourselves when others make costly decisions.
I’m talking about those times when you’re given a pitcher of lemon juice and you scurrying to make lemonade.
In the Apostle Paul’s case, as recorded in Acts 27, the lemon juice was ocean-sized.
And yet, […]

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To hear this Morning Devotion, please click  What puts a song in your heart?_
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If you hear a guy whistling, chances are that he’s feeling good about his life.
I’ve observed that depressed guys don’t whistle while they work.
Or while they do anything.
The same principle applies to women, of course.
And to children.
If somebody is spontaneously singing […]

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To hear this Morning Devotion, please click Which way is your spirit pointed?
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It was such a simple verse, but it spoke volumes to me this morning.
“The human spirit can endure in sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?”
When I read these words from Proverbs 18:14, recorded in today’s reading from the […]

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To hear this Morning Devotion, please click Laying it before the Lord
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Have you ever wondered where the phrase “laying it before the Lord” came from?
From King Hezekiah’s desperate plea to God in the face of Jerusalem’s looming destruction, that’s where.
It’s found in 2 Kings 19:14.
“After Hezekiah received the letter (from Assyria’s King Sennacherib […]

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To hear this Morning Devotion, please click Silver linings
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We Christians should be experts at looking for silver linings.
Every dark cloud that God allows to come over our lives — even those we bring on ourselves because of evaporating integrity — comes with the potential for a redemptive lesson.
Sometimes it is a lesson in divine […]

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