"Hear my prayer, O Lord!Listen to my cries for help!Don’t ignore my tears.For I am your guest—a traveler passing through..."(Psalm 39:12) Jenny Simmons recently wrote me a cool letter from Bussloo, Apeldoorn, Netherlands where their band Addison Road was touring. She talked about how weird it felt to be in…
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"Have compassion on me, Lord, for I am weak.Heal me, Lord, for my bones are in agony." (Psalms 6:2) Less than two weeks ago, I underwent a hip replacement. For me, this surgery was a very serious decision. For the past few years I had experienced increasing pain in my right…
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"Weeping may last through the night,but joy comes with the morning." (Psalm 30:5) During my first mission trip to India, I heard about the Kamathipura section of Mumbai, where approximately 100,000 women and children live in sexual slavery. The number of trafficked persons is difficult to determine due to the…
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"Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." (Hebrews 12:1b) Mark Gungor is the author of Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage: Unlocking the Secrets to Life, Love and Marriage and offers Biblical wisdom in an entertaining style. This week’s devotional is adapted from his book. Great…
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"Nevertheless..." (II Corinthians 7:6) There is a remarkable menagerie of words expressing pain of every kind in Paul’s second letter to the church at Corinth; words like affliction, anguish, beatings, distresses, fastings, fightings, labors, perils, persecutions, sorrows, stripes, sufferings, tears, tumults, weak, and weakness. They snap and snarl at the…
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“Run away from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is asin against your own body.” (1 Corinthians 6:18) Kirk Franklin is a contemporary gospel, hip-hop and R&B artist whose music has reached multiple-platinum status, garnering five Grammy Awards and…
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“Thou shalt not steal.” (Exodus 20:15) God’s Word tells us that anytime we take anything that belongs to someone else or withhold that which rightly belongs to another, we have transgressed this commandment. Whether it's time, money, affection, possessions, appreciation, love, or anything else, if we defraud somebody else in…
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"If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much. If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else?" (Matthew 5:46-47) Tullian Tchividjian comes from a line of devout Christians who have been…
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“Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.” (1 Peter 5:6) Princess makes an effective alarm clock, but not a very pleasant one. We have a mat in our garage decorated with a dachshund and the phrase, “Caution: Dog Cannot Hold Its…
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“Peter came to him and asked, 'Lord, how often should I forgive someone who sins against me? Seven times?''No, not seven times,' Jesus replied, 'but seventy times seven!'” (Matthew 18:21-22) The other day my husband asked me to check into airfare for a few of our kids, so they could…
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