Month: January 2011

Finding Favor

First, a word of explanation: A kind reader inquired why I closed last Thursday’s Everyday Life with the words, “Love you, Poppa.” Well that was a mistake, but let me explain my oversight. I first write these devotionals to my grandchildren. When our eldest granddaughter, now graduated, went to university, […]

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Getting Life Right

“Good people live right.” Proverbs 20:7 CEV “Stuff cannot satisfy, and more stuff just doesn’t satisfy more!” My thoughts today are about “getting life right.” I think we often get important things upside down and backwards. The world’s model of greatness is one who exceeds others’ abilities and achievements – […]

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Your Thought Life

“Let God transform . . the way you think.” Romans 12:2 NLT “What you sow in your thoughts grows elsewhere as weeds or fruit.” My thoughts today are about “your thought life.” It is not always automatic to understand how much everything else is related to “the way you think.” […]

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Change That Matters

“Put off your old self . . put on the new self.” Ephesians 4:22-24 NIV “Anything that does not accurately express who you are in Christ must change.” My thoughts today are about “change that matters.” Life should always be about moving forward, and the first thing for doing that […]

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Your Part and God’s

“Then I will heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV “What God asks is never complicated and rarely difficult, but always required.” My thoughts today are about “your part and God’s.” Is there ever a time that a nation, or individual, does not need God’s grace? From the Bible’s record, […]

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