When God Breaks His Promises

2344) Did my title for this “minute” surprise you? I can assure you I was not writing it as clickbait. How many times have we read a promise from God and wondered, is he really keeping his promises? How about Matthew 7:7–Ask and it will be given you? And you’ve asked and asked for a
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Follow Him

2343) When I was small, we often sang in Sunday school, I will make you fishers of men, fishers of men, fishers of men. I will make you fishers of men if you follow me. I always wondered how “following” Jesus is possible because I could only understand the literal meaning. I think the answer
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Rolling

2342) There are some days that are more difficult to be a teacher than others. One such time is when we have indoor recess. It’s almost always related to weather. (Though I remember a few times way back when we had indoor recess because black bears were at the school dumpster having a snack.) This
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Flattery Will Get You?

2341) There’s a difference between encouraging and flattering. When we encourage, we are supporting someone. We hope to bring confidence and maybe hope. (Oxford Languages.) To flatter someone, we give insincere praise, usually to further one’s own interests. (Oxford Languages.) The word flatter in Hebrew is chalaq, which means to separate and divide. (biblehub.com) Flattering
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Price Tags

2340) As I grow older, I find myself thinking and doing things I promised myself when I was younger that I would never do. One of them is to compare how much things cost when I first started out as an adult to the cost of things now. In those first years, I really didn’t
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Death

2339) Death represents finality. It means a separation between humans and between humans and animals. Death has the ability to turn our lives upside down because when someone (or something) dies, we walk along in life without them, and this can cause an ache deep within the soul. When we, or someone we care about,
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Companion

2338) My little dog, Cayce, loves to walk. All I have to do is get my walking shoes out, and he goes crazy. It’s so nice to have a companion when I’m walking. My last dog’s health made it impossible for him to walk with me nine years out of the 11 that I had
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Intrinsic Value

2337) I once had a professor, Johnny Miller, who did a sermon on intrinsic value. He gave personal examples of this, and as best as my memory can recall, there were three. First, Johnny told of his young daughter, who got an ice cream cone. As she was eating it, the ice cream fell off
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Hope

Hope 2336) I hope I get the job. I hope the report from the doctor is good. I hope for some peace and quiet. All these things are reasonable wants, and when I read Psalm 130:7 that I must hope in the Lord. For with the Lord is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful
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It’s a Fight

2335) When I taught high school, I was thoroughly shaken each time I witnessed a fight between kids. I hated seeing them; it was often traumatic to me, especially when I knew the kids involved. Some fights were brutal. As I reflect on this, it occurs to me that I have always viewed fights–whether physical
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