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Receiving Knowledge
October 01, 2020 Receiving Knowledge by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Acts 17:10-12 SLICE IT ANY WAY YOU WISH, ignorance is not bliss. Dress it in whatever garb you please, ignorance is not attractive. Neither is it the mark of humility nor the path to spirituality. It certainly is not the companionRead More …
Wait Upon the Lord
September 30, 2020 Wait Upon the Lord Psalm 40:1-3 Patience is hard work! This is especially true when we are waiting on God, who keeps to His own timetable. But believers who trust Him to deliver can look forward to rich blessing. A person’s willingness to be patient reveals theRead More …
Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise
September 30, 2020 Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Psalm 8:1-5 LOST IN THE SILENT SOLITUDE of recent days, I have been impressed anew with the vast handiwork of our incomprehensible God. O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higherRead More …
God Acts on Our Behalf
September 29, 2020 God Acts on Our Behalf Lamentations 3:19-26 We’re so used to a hurried world that we sometimes expect speed in our spiritual life, too. However, God “acts on behalf of those who wait for him” (Isa. 64:4 NIV). Let’s look at three reasons believers are called uponRead More …
Turn Aside to See
September 29, 2020 Turn Aside to See by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Exodus 3:1-3 LEGEND HAS IT THAT THERE was once a sign along an Alaskan highway that brought a smile to many a motorist: Choose your rut carefully— You’ll be in it for the next 200 miles. We who liveRead More …
Ministers of Comfort
September 28, 2020 Ministers of Comfort Psalm 72:12-14 During hard seasons or times of disaster—whether natural or man-made, national or local—we are called to show kindness. True compassion tries to understand people’s pain, but it also provides practical help. So, how we can express care and concern for others? First,Read More …
Who’s Imitating You?
September 28, 2020 Who’s Imitating You? by Pastor Chuck Swindoll 1 Corinthians 4:14-17 WHO IS IT THE LORD HAS used to model His message and challenge you to change, to shake off that tendency to settle for less than your full potential, to stretch and pursue and conquer new territoryRead More …
Pursuing God’s Will
September 27, 2020 Pursuing God’s Will To get the most out of this devotion, set aside time to read the Scripture referenced throughout. Each of Jesus’ statements in the Beatitudes includes a way of being and a promised result if we embody the trait described. But we’re not meant toRead More …
Give Yourself Permission
September 27, 2020 Give Yourself Permission by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Galatians 5:1 AT A BAZAAR IN NORTHERN INDIA, an old farmer brought in a whole covey of quail. He had tied a string around one leg of each bird. The other ends of all the strings were tied to aRead More …
An Influential Father
September 26, 2020 An Influential Father Matthew 4:18-22 Have you ever wondered about the less familiar names in the Bible? Many people are mentioned just once—often in a genealogy and identified only as “the father of …” But one lesser-known father is mentioned 11 times in the Gospels and alwaysRead More …
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