Morning Devotion

We’ve all been amazed at times by the rock-solid stability that some long-time Christians demonstrate when they are being pounded by terrible storms.
One person has terminal cancer but also has a permanent smile.
One person’s lifelong dream of a happy marriage is trashed by the egocentricity of a middle-age-crazy spouse, and yet there is no shaking [...]

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It’s an objection to Christianity that every believer has heard many times in one form or another.
“The Bible is too hard to understand and trying to keep all those rules in order to make God happy is just too much to ask.”
Wise Christians will, in fact, acknowledge briefly that some verses in the Bible are [...]

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It’s no surprise that Stephen Hawking has rejected God as Creator.
The world-famous theoretical physicist has long rejected the notion of divine involvement in the universe.
But an even more exclusionary declaration has just been issued by Hawking.
His new book, The Grand Design, contends without reservation that God did not create [...]

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You’ve heard the phrase, “Even a broken watch is right twice a day.”
That phrase came to mind this morning while I was reading Job 11 in the One-Year Bible. You’ll recall that Job had three friends who, for seven days, comforted him in silence [...]

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We’ve all heard of Fool’s Gold, that stuff that prompted so many unwarranted celebrations during the California Gold Rush of the 1850s.
Nearly identical in appearance to real gold, the stuff’s true identity as worthless metal sometimes could not be confirmed until it was chemically analyzed by trained assayers.

Countless miners thought they had struck it rich [...]

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