Hope Solo is impossible! Hope was Goalkeeper for Team USA that won the 2015 Women’s World Cup. She guards her territory with a sneer and dives like she’s on springs instead of cleats. She played every minute of the seven-game World Cup tournament, had five shutouts and an outlandish 567 minute stretch where she didn’t […]
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Christ died for sins once for all. —1 Peter 3:18 The call from his son was urgent. He was behind on his mortgage payments and had received notice of foreclosure unless full remittance was received by 10 o’clock the following morning. So dad overnighted a check to the
Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. —1 Peter 3:9 Once a word is spoken it can’t be called back. Damage done by harsh words can’t be undone. Churches are split, feelings are
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Be compassionate and humble. —1 Peter 3:8 Those who think highly of themselves would be shocked to find that others aren’t all that impressed. No matter how rich and famous they are, the size of the crowd at their funeral will pretty much depend on the weather. Arrogance is
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree. —1 Peter 2:24 As the two outgunned soldiers ran for cover an exploding grenade caught one in mid-stride, mangling his right leg. His cohort jumped on top of him, shielding him from gunfire with his own body. It cost him his life.
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You are a chosen people. —1 Peter 2:9 Rejection hurts. The boy that was always last to be chosen for the team never forgets it. Neither does the girl who navigated high school years without once being asked for a date. Peanuts comic strips made Charles Schulz rich and famous, but he
Just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do. —1 Peter 1:15 The root meaning of the word “holy” (hágios) is “different.” William Barclay notes that the Temple was hágios because it was different from other buildings; the Sabbath was hágios because it was different from
What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. —James 4:14 At the time of this writing, average life expectancy in the United States is 78.4 years. Visualizing those years on a 12-hour
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? —James 4:1 Slick marketers keep our desires an inch and a half beyond our reach,
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Whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. —James 2:10 There’s a good chance that you know a church-going man who makes his home hell by his tyrannical and
