Hope

2510) I hope I will get the job. I hope I can see my family soon. I hope my marriage will thrive. All these things are what most understand the word hope to mean.  Yet, these usages of the word hope don’t quite hit the mark of how it’s used in Romans 15:13. Here, Paul
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The Lions in my Life

2497) I have never been to a circus, though I have seen enough of them on television to picture what happens in a show. One of the things I think I would have been scared to see as a child is a lion in the same cage as a person, and the lion is riled
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Where is the Love

2494) It’s always interesting to me to observe some of my young scholars fall in love. They usually swing all the way toward bliss, feeling as if they’re walking on air, and then, almost as quickly, swing the opposite way in their feelings. As adults, we learn, hopefully, that yes, love carries strong feelings, but
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Pain Spotlights Beauty

2493) As a creator and writer, I examine things a little differently than others. I have noticed that within the hurricane of pain, there is the eye of beauty. I have noticed those who have survived rape, infidelity, cruelty and more, who have been able to turn their pain into a blueprint of how they
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Comparisons

2492) It seems to me that comparing my life, job, marriage, and income to those of others is non-productive. It can lead to ingratitude and only sometimes something good. Taking a look at what I have versus what others have can be a door that opens to resentment, envy, and the subtle poison of complaining.
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I Am

2479) Age is a funny thing. If you ask my young scholars their ages, they will say something like, “I’m 10 and ½”. Ask an adult woman, you might get a number, but it won’t be, “and a ½”. When I read about the event of Moses and the burning bush in Exodus 3, I
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Who Are You Wrestling With?

2478) When I was a kid, my brothers and I used to watch wrestling. Now, let’s be clear, these were a bunch of men putting on a show, and as a kid of 10, I was dazzled by it. As I think about wrestling, my mind goes to Jacob in the book of Genesis. Jocab
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Balance

2464) I can remember some of my physical education classes in early elementary school involved walking on a balance beam. I wasn’t very good at it, and I guess my school also thought my classmates and I weren’t because the beam was only a few feet above the floor.  Galatians 6:9 reflects balance. Paul tells
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It Costs

2461) Because of the current economy, many of us think twice (or even more) about what we’re purchasing and how much it costs. Everyday living is costly. The economy isn’t the only cost we should ponder. The other one is mentioned in Romans 15:5. It reveals to us that the God of endurance and encouragement
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Share not Remove

2458) If you have an empathetic heart, it’s easy to want to fix things for those we love. The ability to feel along with others is a gift, but not so we can remove what is bringing pain. We don’t have the power to do that, but we can share other’s burdens. In 2 Timothy
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