So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love (1 Corinthians 13:13, ESV). Let’s define attitude as the mindset from which we evaluate the events and people around us. We can have a positive or negative attitude. The Bible teaches three qualities that improve our attitude – faith, […]
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For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned (Romans 12:3, ESV). Can we grow in faith? If trials continue to increase in the end times
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Moses responded, “Then show me your glorious presence” (Exodus 33:18, NLT). Seeking the “presence of God” has been a part of my walk with Jesus since I became a Christian. Several times I have traveled for a retreat at a campground in the mountains or a monastery in Kentucky, and the retreats have always ended
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But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love (1 Corinthians 13:13, NASB1995). The Apostle Paul teaches us to abide in faith, hope, and love. Your spiritual vitality and emotional health can be discerned by checking your faith, hope, and love. The opposite of faith is fear, the opposite of hope
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The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” (Luke 17:5, NIV) I’m asking God to increase my faith in 2023. Describing the ends-times, Jesus said, “People will faint from terror as they consider what is happening in the world in 2023” (A very loose Old Guy Version [OGV] of Luke 21:26). We cannot decrease the problems
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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom (Psalm 111:10, ESV). My wife and I recently walked along a beach at night. We came upon a man with a white bucket filled with hatchling sea turtles. Several children were gathered around him, and they were releasing the turtles into the sea. The man gave my
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So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ (Romans 10:17, NASB1995). I have an observation about funerals. All of us have been to a memorial service but let me make a prediction of prophecy that is 100 percent true – all of us will be the reason for a memorial service. Having officiated hundreds of funerals,
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Fire! For this reason, I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control (2 Timothy 1:6-7). All of us have been around a dwindling campfire when someone throws on a
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For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith” (Romans 1:17, ESV). Have you heard the phrase, “We are building the plane while we are flying it”? I read that this is cliché in Silicon Valley because programming, software, and dot-com companies often put
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Whoever says he abides in Jesus ought to walk in the same way in which he walked (1 John 2:6). We are to follow the example of Jesus. Reading the gospels, we notice the commanding faith of Christ. Jesus rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” (Mark 4:39). So that you