Enjoy peace with God because of your righteousness in Christ. Ask the Holy Spirit to make the following scriptures a reality in your life. Cultivate the art of enjoying our invisible, magnificent God. I delight greatly in the LORD; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and …
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32277.6 Delight in God’s Goodness
Enjoy His gifts and daily blessings. Ask the Holy Spirit to make the following scriptures a reality in your life. Cultivate the art of enjoying our invisible, magnificent God. This is the day the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. Please, LORD, please save us. Please, LORD, please give us …
42321 Evangelistic Tracts
Tracts are effective ways to share the Gospel. When you use an evangelistic tract, it is easier for the listeners to follow the Gospel because they listen to you while they can see (read) the tract. Also, when they don’t have enough time to listen to your entire Gospel presentation, you can leave the tract …
22220.000 Introduction
Working inside the underbelly of global media, as I did for nearly forty years in places like Hollywood and New York, I have a new appreciation for wisdom. I know this may sound harsh, but I view Hollywood as the epicenter of cultural and moral stupidity! Even self-descriptive phrases from the lips of those who …
22220.001 How to Recognize A Fool
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and their ways are vile. (Psalm 53:1) Upon hearing circus magnate P. T. Barnum’s famous quote, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” someone asked, “If so, where did all the rest of them come from?” As societies stray from honoring God and …
22220.002 Adultery: One “A” You Don’t Want to Earn
For the lips of an adulteress [adulterer] drip honey, and her [his] speech is smoother than oil; but in the end she [he] is bitter as gall, sharp as a double-edged sword…For the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread and the adulteress preys on your very life. (Proverbs 5:3–4, 6:26) A story going …
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22220.003 Anger: The Nuclear Emotion…with Huge Fallout
Better a patient man than a warrior, a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city. (Proverbs 16:32) For as churning the milk produces butter, and as twisting the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife. (Proverbs 30:33) Fred (not his real name) was a professional associate in Christian service …
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22220.004 Lying: The Self-Made Trap
Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment. (Proverbs 12:19) A fortune made by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare. (Proverbs 21:6) “Inhale. Lie. Exhale. Lie.” This was the title of a front-page article by David Shaw in the Los Angeles Times about the chronic lying …
22220.005 Gossip: The Hidden Dagger
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to a man’s inmost parts. (Proverbs 18:8) A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends. (Proverbs 16:28) It was the perfect setup—described in Judges 3. Ehud gets permission to have an audience with Eglon, King of Moab, on a …
22220.006 Reproof: A Building Block for Character
The corrections of discipline are the way of life. (Proverbs 6:23) A rebuke impresses a man of discernment more than a hundred lashes a fool. (Proverbs 17:10) My godly father had a slogan on the wall of his den that said, “It’s better to give someone a piece of your heart than a piece of …
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