By Stephen Witmer, posted July 1, 2018 at: http://www.desiringgod.org Envy is a stingy and demanding master. It’s stingy because, unlike many other sins, there’s absolutely nothing pleasurable about experiencing it. Most sins bait the hook: lust offers excitement and escape, greed promises wealth and pleasure, gossip promises power and participation in the inner […]
By Millard Fuller (1935-2009), founder of Habitat for Humanity, in Building Materials for Life, page 91-93. —————————– Recently, a dear friend had unexpected surgery. During the time of convalescence, Linda and I sent her a small bouquet of roses. She called when the roses arrived, exclaiming that the roses were precisely the color
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Abraham Lincoln was born 217 years ago today. Here are some of his words. **************************** In regard to this great book (the Bible), I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to men. All the good the Savior gave to the world is communicated through this book. But for it
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“God Wants You to Grow Up,” by Rick Warren, Daily Hope meditation, September 19, 2018, at http://www.pastorrick.org: God created you to become like Christ. He wants you to grow up spiritually. The Bible says, “From the very beginning God decided that those who came to him—and all along he knew who would—should
Adapted from “The Sudden Ruin of a Stubborn Heart,” by Greg Morse (7-20-2025) at: http://www.desiringgod.org . ********************************* “He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.” –Proverbs 29:1. ————————————– Behold, a stubborn man (or woman, or you; but in this meditation it will be a man). He
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW By Dennis Prager at ( http://www.prageru.com ) ——————————————— No document in world history so changed the world for the better as did the Ten Commandments. Western civilization — the civilization that developed universal human rights, created women’s equality, ended slavery, and created parliamentary democracy, among other
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(…continued… first paragraph is repeated from yesterday) There are many Bible verses that speak to this sort of thing; not to mention the commandment that says “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” In his Small Catechism explanation of this commandment, Martin Luther expands the meaning of the command to beyond
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Several years ago, when visiting my ten-year-old grandson, he went running to his parents and said to them, “Grandpa said a bad word. He said the ‘S’ word.” I heard the accusation and was puzzled. I pleaded innocent, until the little tattler whispered the forbidden word into his mother’s ear. “Dad,” she said
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From Your New Money Mindset, by Brad Hewitt and James Moline, 2015, Tyndale House Publishers. My Grandpa Colby was a young teen when he was summoned to a neighbor’s farm to help milk a less-than-cooperative cow. Apparently the farmer was off on a drinking binge and had abandoned the cow for days. She was
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Painting by Norman Rockwell, The Gossips, 1948 ********************************** A Jewish Fable by Shoshannah Brombacher < http://www.chabad.org > In a small town somewhere in Eastern Europe lived a nice man with a nasty problem: he talked too much about other people. He could not help himself. Whenever he heard a story about somebody he knew, and
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