servanthood

3218) Something Beautiful for God (2/2)

ย ย ย ย  (โ€ฆcontinued) Jesus calls โ€˜blessedโ€™ those who serve him in this life.ย  Look at Jesusโ€™ examples of serving others: giving a thirsty person something to drink, offering food to a hungry person, giving clothes to the needy, and visiting the sick and those in prison.ย  Simple things.ย  Common, everyday acts of kindness.ย  People do them […]

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3217) Something Beautiful for God (1/2)

Matthew 25:31-46: 31 (Jesus said), โ€œWhen the Son of Man comesย in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne.ย 32ย All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separateย the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.ย 33ย He will put the sheep on

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3172) True Greatness

ย  ย  ย  ย During the American Revolution a man in civilian clothes rode past a group of soldiers repairing a small defensive barrier.ย  Their leader was shouting instructions, but making no attempt to help them.ย  The man on the horse asked the man shouting orders why he was not helping his men.ย  He retorted with

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3170) Little Things Mean a Lot

By Millard Fuller (1935-2009), founder of Habitat for Humanity, in Building Materials for Life, page 91-93. —————————– ย  ย  ย Recently, a dear friend had unexpected surgery.ย  During the time of convalescence, Linda and I sent her a small bouquet of roses.ย  She called when the roses arrived, exclaiming that the roses were precisely the color

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3145) Doing Your Duty (2/2)

ย ย ย  ย (โ€ฆcontinued) That might sound harsh and insensitive to you.ย  You might be the one always doing more than your share, always putting in the extra time, always being taking advantage of, and always muttering under your breath โ€œWell, someone has to do it; and if I donโ€™t take care of it, it will never

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3144) Doing Your Duty (1/2)

ย  ย  ย Ken finally talked his wife Sue into going to a baseball game with him.ย  He was a baseball fanatic; she thought the whole thing was stupid and boring.ย  For nine innings, Ken observed every detail of the game, while Sue scrolled through Facebook on her phone and looked up only occasionally.ย  Finally, it

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3096) I’ll Get By With a Little Help From My Friends

“Let Someone Serve You in Suffering,โ€ย  by Vaneeta Rendall Risner (pictured above with her husband).ย  See her website at: https://www.vaneetha.com/ —————————————- ย  ย  ย I donโ€™t like asking for help.ย  Frankly, Iโ€™d rather take care of myself, by myself. ย  ย  ย But independence has become a thing of the past for me.ย  Because of my disability

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3079) Two Old Sermon Illustrations (1/2)

ย  ย  ย One day, many years ago, my grade school son said to me firmly, โ€œDad, I donโ€™t want you talking about me in your sermons anymore.โ€ย  My daughter quickly agreed with her brother.ย  โ€œYeah, me neither,โ€ she said, โ€œI have friends in church.ย  Donโ€™t you remember what it was like when you were our

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3060) Does the Money Really Get There?

ย ย  ย  ย I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say they didnโ€™t like giving money to overseas missions, because, โ€œHow do we know the money gets there?โ€ ย Here’s how I know. ย  ย  ย When I was a child in Sunday School, our mission offerings went to the African nation of

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3047) “Go See Joe”

The Meeting With Joe, by Gary S. ย (source lost) ย  ย  ย One cold winter morning as I looked out my bedroom window at the gray, bleak landscape, I wondered, What is my life worth? ย Where do I fit into the scheme of things?ย  I felt completely overwhelmed by rejection. ย I couldnโ€™t see any hope in

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