By Joshua Rogers, posted November 23, 2010 at: http://www.joshuarogers.com ——————————    Last Friday afternoon, I got a call from my neurologist’s office. I had recently gotten an MRI, and my doctor’s secretary had called to say my doctor wanted me to see an oncologist. I didn’t know why my doctor wanted me to see […]
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By Jani Ortlund at http://www.desiringgod.org, January 24, 2018 ————–    I wish someone had told me.    Looking back now, I wish an older lady had sat me down and told me, “Most of life is waiting, Jani. Learn to wait in hope, not fear.”    You see, I grew up believing
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By Lee Strobel, December 30, 2017, at: http://www.biblegateway.com    During his five years as a prisoner in North Vietnam, Major F. J. Harold Kushner encountered a twenty-four-year-old Marine who had made a deal with his captors. The soldier agreed to cooperate with the Viet Cong, and in return the commander of the prison camp
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From “Don’t Let Christmas Destroy You” by Joshua Rogers, posted December 6, 2017 at: http://www.joshuarogers.com ———————-    A few years ago, on Christmas Day, a friend was celebrating with her family when they heard a single, loud pop outside. They didn’t think anything of it, but soon the sound of sirens filled the neighborhood.
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   What Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they could “be like gods;” that they could set up on their own as if they had created themselves, they could be their own masters, and they could invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from
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 By Jon Bloom at:  www.desiringgod.org    (…continued)  This living soul food is more vital to our ultimate health than bodily food.  But learning to eat well for the sake of our body’s well-being has valuable lessons for eating well for our soul’s well-being.  And one of those valuable lessons is that our taste preferences
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By Jon Bloom (at http://www.desiringgod.org) Â Â Â Hope is to our soul what energy is to our body. Â Just like our bodies must have energy to keep going, our souls must have hope to keep going. Â Â Â When our body needs energy, we eat food. Â But when our soul needs hope, what do we
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By John Piper, Future Grace, pages 307-8; posted July 9, 2017 at http://www.desiringgod.org ————————- Matthew 26:36-39  —  36 Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”  37 He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to
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   (…continued) I meet with many couples who are preparing to get married. Some have good jobs already, making lots of money, and having fun; and sometimes they say, “We aren’t going to have any kids—we’re just going to enjoy life.” Those are the ones I worry about the most. Others are struggling along,
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   (…continued)  One of Martin Luther’s students told Luther he was thinking about asking for a young lady’s hand in marriage. He loved the girl and wanted to marry her, but he was worried about such a life-long commitment. The young man asked Luther what he should do. Luther replied with his usual bluntness,
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