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Is Trauma Terminal?
June 29, 2022 Is Trauma Terminal? by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Matthew 11:28-30 The definition reflects devastation: Trauma: An injury (as a wound) to living tissue caused by an extrinsic agent . . . a disordered psychic or behavioral state resulting from mental or emotional stress. Like potatoes in a pressure cooker, we twenty-first centuryRead More …
Can’t . . . or Won’t? Part Two
June 28, 2022 Can’t . . . or Won’t? Part Two by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Ephesians 3:14, 16 If you haven’t read yesterday’s reading, I’d like to ask you to do that. It’s crucial that you understand that God has given Christians an extra inner reservoir of power that isRead More …
Can’t . . . or Won’t? Part One
June 27, 2022 Can’t . . . or Won’t? Part One by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Hebrews 10:35-39 No offense, but some of you don’t have any business reading this today. Normally, I do not restrict my words to any special group of people. But now I must. This time itRead More …
Fighting the Fast Fade
June 26, 2022 Fighting the Fast Fade by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Mark 4:1-25 As you waved goodbye to your friends at church last Sunday, what mental darts were left stuck in the target of your thinking? Can you remember those pointed challenges from the man who stood before you withRead More …
Questions
June 25, 2022 Questions by Pastor Chuck Swindoll 1 Peter 3:15 Gifted evangelist Tom Skinner penned a book with a title that won’t let me go: If Christ Is the Answer, What Are the Questions? I like that . . . not only because it’s creative, but because it strikes a chordRead More …
Backing Off, Part Two
June 24, 2022 Backing Off, Part Two by Pastor Chuck Swindoll John 7:1-14 As we’ve been discussing, there are certain times when it’s necessary to keep quiet, to relax, to back off. Intensity often leads to futility. Like the little boy who plants the seed and then nervously digs itRead More …
Backing Off, Part One
June 23, 2022 Backing Off, Part One by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Kids are nutty. Some friends of ours in Texas have two little girls. The younger child is constantly on the move, rarely winding down by bedtime. So the nightly affair has become something of a familiar routine.Read More …
Observation
June 22, 2022 Observation by Pastor Chuck Swindoll 2 Timothy 3:16-17 A small bottle containing urine sat upon the desk of Sir William Osler. He was then the eminent professor of medicine at Oxford University. Sitting before him was a classroom full of young, wide-eyed medical students listening to hisRead More …
No Place for Islands
June 21, 2022 No Place for Islands by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Romans 15:1-7 Nobody is a whole chain. Each one is a link. But take away one link and the chain is broken. Nobody is a whole team. Each one is a player. But take away one player and theRead More …
Sunday Listening, Part Two
June 20, 2022 Sunday Listening, Part Two by Pastor Chuck Swindoll 1 Samuel 3:1-10 We’ve been talking about the essential skill of listening, particularly as it relates to Sunday sermons. I asked you to come up with some ideas on what can be done by the listener (not the preacher)Read More …
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