God said to him, “You fool!” —Luke 12:20 His name tag said Fool. It was God who wrote it and pinned it on his shirt. He was rich. Nothing wrong with that. What was wrong was that he didn’t have a clue that it was God who […]
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A man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions. —Luke 12:15 The self-storage buildings that dot the landscape of our hometowns would have baffled our grandparents; they couldn’t have imagined a need for them. A hundred years ago the average American had 72 “wants,” with 16
You are worth more than many sparrows. —Luke 12:7 If you’ve been around a spell you know that life isn’t an unbroken string of fair weather. It has its seasons of storm and havoc. That’s when you must remember
You are worried and upset about many things. —Luke 10:41 “Don’t worry about anything,” Paul wrote (Phil. 4:6). Some of us do the opposite—worry about everything. We worry about war, terrorism, crime, road rage, global warming; about the economy, social
Go and do likewise. —Luke 10:37 “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” he asked. You tell me, Jesus said; “What is written in the Law?” “Love the Lord your God … and love your neighbor as yourself,” he answered. You got it right, Jesus said. But “Who is my neighbor?” he shot
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Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. —Luke 6:36 The difference between mercy and grace is that God’s mercy refrains from giving us the condemnation that we deserve, while his grace gives us the salvation that we don’t deserve. Two
On April 14, 2004, Marine Corporal Jason Dunham’s squadron was manning a checkpoint near the Syrian border in western Iraq when an Iraqi soldier lobbed a grenade into the unit. Dunham dived on the missile and died shielding his comrades from the explosion with his own body. Battalion commander Lt. Col. Matthew Lopez said, “Cpl.
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My eyes have seen your salvation. —Luke 2:30 Simeon was an old man. He had lived through painful shifts, seeing his world fall apart. His beloved homeland fell to foreign rule. Political corruption, brazen immorality, and distressing religious decay crushed everything decent. But Simeon
A Savior has been born … he is Christ the Lord. —Luke 2:11 Jesus did not come because of your strength, but because of your sin; not because of your goodness, but because of your guilt;
Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know when that time will come. —Mark 13:33 There have been self-declared prophets in every generation who have clucked that they have nailed down the exact date of the world’s end. They have all been wrong. No surprise there, for
