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God’s Aware of Your Tears
February 08, 2021 God’s Aware of Your Tears by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Psalm 56:8 TEARS HAVE A LANGUAGE ALL THEIR OWN, needing no interpreter. In some mysterious way, our inner-communication system knows its verbal limitations, and the tears come. Eyes that flashed and sparkled moments before are flooded. Tears areRead More …
Sunday Reflection: You Will Be Free
February 07, 2021 Sunday Reflection: You Will Be Free To get the most out of this devotion, set aside time to read the Scripture referenced throughout. When Jesus preached in the temple, He said, “If the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:36). The people listeningRead More …
Our Words Matter Much
February 07, 2021 Our Words Matter Much by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Ephesians 4:29 ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S COFFIN WAS pried open on more than one occasion. Once in 1887, twenty-two years after his assassination. Why? It was not to determine if he had died of a bullet fired from John Wilkes Booth’sRead More …
Dealing With Persecution
February 06, 2021 Dealing With Persecution 1 Peter 1:3-9 Harsh persecution for faith isn’t something most of us have been subjected to here in the United States. Perhaps we’ve been rejected, ridiculed, or treated unfairly, but at this point in history, physical suffering, imprisonment, or death haven’t been a typicalRead More …
A Willingness to Go with God
February 06, 2021 A Willingness to Go with God by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Genesis 12:1-2 WHEN GOD CALLS A SERVANT, there is little room for negotiation. The most striking example of this is when God spoke to Abram, lifting him from obscurity and setting him on a course that wouldRead More …
Made to Be Like Him
February 05, 2021 Made to Be Like Him Romans 8:26-39 The Lord makes known His love for mankind in so many ways. Consider, for example, His providential care and kindness to all humanity, our beautiful planet filled with creation’s wonders, and the gift of eternal life to all who trustRead More …
Friendly—Inside and Out
February 05, 2021 Friendly—Inside and Out by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Proverbs 18:24 ARE YOU ATTRACTIVE? I’m not referring to external beauty nor facial features. I’m asking if you are personally attractive—magnetic, winsome, charming, friendly. Reflect carefully on this interesting proverb: A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly. PROVERBSRead More …
Learning to Wait
February 04, 2021 Learning to Wait Psalm 25 What are we to think when we have prayed but the Lord doesn’t answer? As creatures limited by time, we can find waiting very frustrating. However, God doesn’t perceive time as we do. He knows the end of a matter before itRead More …
Cool Skepticism
February 04, 2021 Cool Skepticism by Pastor Chuck Swindoll 2 Peter 3:3-4 NINE-YEAR-OLD DANNY BURST OUT OF Sunday school, eyes darting in every direction trying to locate his mom or dad. After a quick search, he grabbed his daddy by the leg and yelled, “Man, that story of Moses andRead More …
A Quiet Place
February 03, 2021 A Quiet Place by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Mark 6:31-32 IT IS ALMOST 10:00, MONDAY NIGHT. The children are snoozing upstairs. Aside from a few outside noises—a passing car . . . a barking dog . . . a few, faint voices in the distance—all’s quiet on the home front. That wonderful,Read More …
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