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Does Jesus really mean it when He says His yoke is easy and His burden is light? The answer is yes---and the path from where you are to where He wants you to be is available to everyone!
It's a difficult moment when our children first discover we're not perfect.
Anything that distracts us from complete dependence on God becomes an immensely destructive force in our life. In today's culture, the biggest culprit is work. In a total reversal of what God intended, we've managed to make work the place where we're least aware of God. Genesis teaches us work was intended to put us in touch with Him!
When the storms of life press us on every side; when the gales of rebellion blow and the temptations and trials rain down on us like monsoons, may we be found leaning into the wind, sometimes moving forward, sometimes simply standing, but always with our eyes fixed on Jesus, the "author and finisher of our faith."
The longer we are Christians, the more likely we are to pick a fight for our faith.
In an effort to get her boys to stop eating the core of the apples she gave them, a young mother finally told them the apple seeds in those cores were poison, and if they swallowed one of them they would die. To her delight, no more cores were consumed. Weeks later, however, one of the boys accidentally swallowed a seed while eating an apple...
The keeper of the light, officially, that cold January night in 1856 was Samuel Burgess. But lighthouse keepers in the early days of the American republic often held two jobs, and Keeper Burgess found it necessary to chase lobsters to feed his family. This meant the keeper of the light, in fact, that cold January night was 17-year-old Abbie Burgess, the keeper's oldest daughter.
"Do we hate the boss who just fired us, the collection agent who's harassing us, the customer who didn't pay us? Or is it politicians we hate, right or left? Aliens, legal or illegal? Pro or anti-abortionists? Comedians who mock Jesus? News commentators or book authors who attack Christians or Christianity? The moment we grant ourselves permission to hate even those who hate us, we become one with them and not one with Christ."

Want to change the world? Then be different when everyone expects you to be the same.
An electronic debate took place recently, among Christian writers, over whether Christians should use profanity...
Scriptwriters would be laughed out of Hollywood for writing these two stories; and yet life almost always proves stranger--and more dramatic--than fiction. So when I heard about the major league pitcher whose medicine rescued thousands, and the WWII soldier who just remembers rescuing one, how could I not chase down the details. See what I learned in the chasing...
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