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Sorrow and Hope
September 28, 2022 Sorrow and Hope by Pastor Chuck Swindoll 1 John 3:1-5 If tears were indelible ink instead of clear fluid, all of us would be stained for life. The heartbreaking circumstances, the painful encounters with calamities, the brutal verbal blows we receive from the surgeon or an angryRead More …
Perspective
September 27, 2022 Perspective by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Hebrews 12:13; Psalm 91:12 What is perspective? Well, it’s obviously related to the way we view something. The term literally suggests “looking through . . . seeing clearly.” One who views life through perspective lenses has the capacity to see things in their true relations orRead More …
The Sting of the Thorn, Part Two
September 26, 2022 The Sting of the Thorn, Part Two by Pastor Chuck Swindoll 1 John 2:15-17; Mark 4:19 We’ve been talking about Jesus’s parable in Mark 4:1–20 about the farmer who sows seeds in four different types of soil. As I mentioned in Part One, I’m bothered by the third groupRead More …
The Sting of the Thorn, Part One
September 25, 2022 The Sting of the Thorn, Part One by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Mark 4:1-20 Give the Reverend Dullard Drydust enough time and he will manage to confuse most sections of the Bible. Because we preachers are notorious for getting hung up on Greek tenses and purpose clauses andRead More …
Stop the Revolving Door
September 24, 2022 Stop the Revolving Door by Pastor Chuck Swindoll 2 Chronicles 7:13-15 The history of great civilizations reminds me of a giant revolving door. It turns on the axis of human depravity as its movement is marked by the perimeter of time. With monotonous repetition each civilization hasRead More …
Trust, Part Two
September 23, 2022 Trust, Part Two by Pastor Chuck Swindoll 1 John 4:17-19 Each morning you awaken to an unpredictable set of hours filled with surprises and trials and anxieties. You know before your feet ever touch the floor you are in for another who-knows-what day. You could be inRead More …
Trust, Part One
September 22, 2022 Trust, Part One by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Proverbs 3:5-6 Those folks who used to put together Campus Life magazine got my vote. With an incredible regularity they would put the cookies on the lower shelf so that any high schooler in America could thumb through the thingRead More …
”Won’t Someone Please Stop Me?” Part Two
September 21, 2022 ”Won’t Someone Please Stop Me?” Part Two by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Matthew 11:28-30 Strange, isn’t it, how we tend toward extremes? What begins as self-improvement becomes self-enslavement . . . what starts as merely a mellow change of pace leads to a marathon of fanaticism. We’re nuts! Left toRead More …
”Won’t Someone Please Stop Me?” Part One
September 20, 2022 ”Won’t Someone Please Stop Me?” Part One by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Psalm 46:10-11 I laughed my way through Judith Viorst’s How Did I Get to Be Forty and Other Atrocities. I’ve long since passed the half-century mark, so it seemed reasonable that I should at least faceRead More …
Writing with Thorns
September 19, 2022 Writing with Thorns by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Psalm 62:5-8 In pain, grief, affliction, and loss, it often helps to write our feelings . . . not just feel them. Putting words on paper seems to free our feelings from the lonely prison of our souls. It was C. S.Read More …
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