I recently read of a man who started a church and saw it grow and flourish over the years.
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- Daily Devotional, August 068/6/2010 - Let's Make A Deal I have a friend who admitted to cheating on her husband. But rather than repent and come clean right away, she grudgingly gave up ground only when it was required. She ini...
- Daily Devotional, August 058/5/2010 - Giving to others Rebekah Rushing, who was a high-level executive assistant at Enron Corporation before it collapsed due to accounting fraud in 2001, demonstrated that ethics is much more th...
- Daily Devotional, August 048/4/2010 - Receiving and Deceiving My husband and I were leaving a restaurant one evening when a distraught couple approached us. Their story? Car problems. From out of town. Waiting for their...
- Daily Devotional, August 038/3/2010 - Hallowed Be Thy Name In a discipleship class, the participants were asked to monitor their prayer requests in a prayer journal. The purpose was to keep track of things they would pr...
- Daily Devotional, August 028/2/2010 - Justice Two of my neighbors, Eugene and Lorraine Williams, have lived a story we all need to hear. Back in 1958, they bought a house on Ridge Street, and the welcome from their white neighb...
- Daily Devotional, July 307/30/2010 - Personal and Present Author Eckhart Tolle has described God as an "invisible energy field" that animates us and every other thing. For singer-songwriter Annie Lennox, God is "a word to desc...
- Daily Devotional, July 297/29/2010 - Stained It had been one of those days. Busy, disjointed, and generally out of sorts. So I was less than thrilled when I opened the dryer to discover a red marker without its cap among the l...
- Daily Devotional, July 287/28/2010 - God Is Coming Recently, two pygmy sperm whales lay stranded near a New Zealand beach. Though volunteers, led by conversation officer Malcolm Smith, worked tirelessly, they couldn't coax the...
- Daily Devotional, July 207/20/2010 - "Give Me Wisdom" While driving Ian and Wasswa (the 6-year-old Ugandan orphans I'm helping to raise) to school one morning, the discussion turned to the boys' future jobs. Quickly c...
- Daily Devotional, July 197/19/2010 - The Holy Riddler Mighty, majestic, awesome. Gracious, loving, kind. Such descriptors for God are common, and rightly so. But how many of us would add "playful" to the list? How many of us t...
- Daily Devotional, July 167/16/2010 - Community or clique? Birds of a feather flock together. That's why you never see a robin flying wingman in a "V" formation of geese or a crow hanging out with hummingbirds (actually, crows ...
- Daily Devotional, July 157/15/2010 - Power isn't happiness I recently watched Ghosts of Girlfriends' Past. The movie (which is a loose adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol) is about a hedonistic, womanizing bachelo...
- Daily Devotional, July 147/14/2010 - "Memory before birth" Got a good memory? Recent research conducted in the Netherlands and published in the medical journal Child Development reveals that babies can remember things quite we...
- Daily Devotional, July 137/13/2010 - None of my business? When we first read the book of Obadiah, it's easy to regard its contents as little more than a prophetic tirade in which God's wrath is directed toward Israel's enemies...
- Daily Devotional, July 127/12/2010 - Maybe? I sat in the dark atop a mountain overlooking a lost city. Above my head, a Mindanaon downpour assaulted the tin roof of the bungalow I called home. I had just learned that my best f...
- Daily Devotional, July 97/9/2010 - Christ comes incognito The board game Articulate challenges players to help their teammates guess the object, action, or location they're describing without saying it outright. You can't gi...
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