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“I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart…” —Romans 9:2 Paul confessed he had a “continual sorrow” in his heart over the lost condition of his kinsmen according to the flesh. Every soul conscious Christian feels the same way about lost family members. But this “continual sorrow” is a paradox when you consider …
There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. —Luke 15:10 I recently read a story about a fisherman named Harry Tupper. He is a fishing legend in Idaho. There is even a spot on Henry’s Lake on the east side of Idaho named after him called “Tupper’s …
Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice. —1 Samuel 18:11 What do you do when you are the target of a spear thrower (spears of verbal abuse perhaps?). Here are a few lessons from David when …
“His compassions fail not: They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.” —Lamentations 3:22-23 Just as God provided a fresh batch of manna everyday for the children of Israel in the wilderness, so God gives us a fresh supply of compassion each morning. Like the manna in the wilderness, we must gather a fresh …
Saul eyed David from that day and forward. — 1 Samuel 18:9 When King Saul heard the ladies in the streets singing the praises of David, it galled him and he became jealous. Shakespeare called jealousy a “green-eyed monster.” Solomon said jealousy is like bone cancer (Prov. 14:30). It corrupts… conspires… and consumes everything in …
“…As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” —Proverbs 23:7 For 70 years Karl Wallenda performed ariel acts on the high wire. He died in 1978 after falling 120 feet from a tightrope stretched between the two towers of the ten-story Condado Plaza Hotel in Puerto Rico. He once said, “Being on a tightrope …