Your weekly guide to the Bible and prayer
Sunday, January 02, 2005
How can you discern God's will for your life? Do you sense a disconnect between getting on with your life and waiting for his guidance? Or are you frozen in place for fear of making a misstep?
God's purpose for you life isn't a puzzle to solve. This week's readings should take some of the mystery out of finding and following God's will for you personally.
Until next week,
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Divine direction and human response go together
Sunday: Go with Which Flow?
After troubled years as a young musician involved in the drug culture, Skip received Christ while watching a Billy Graham tv crusade. After studying about his new faith, he began a home Bible study in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that grew into the 12,000-strong Calvary of Albuquerque! After 23 years there, Skip last year moved to Ocean Hills Church in San Juan Capistrano, California. Skip has visited world trouble spots with friend Franklin Graham.
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I Don't Get It
By Todd Wilson
Hey Dad,
I just don't get it! Sometimes I think I do. I'm just about to grab the brass ring of understanding my wife when BAM, it vanishes, and I blow it big time.
You'd think after years of being married to the same woman that I'd have it down by now, but I don't. Take the other night. My wife was feeling overwhelmed by the future and the upcoming school year. She was uptight and irritable.
Trying to be the husband that I tell others to be, I asked her to spill her guts and told her I'd listen to her.
"You can't handle what I'm feeling," she said. "You'll just want to give solution and won't try to understand what I'm feeling."
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The Word Unplugged
By Ben Patterson
A few years ago Bill, a retired pastor and seminary professor, convinced me and Tim, another pastor friend, that it would be good for the three of us to memorize the Book of Revelation and recite it before our church on a Sunday evening.
A few days before the event, when I was scrambling to prepare, fearing I would make a complete fool of myself in front of a lot of people (1,000 people turned out), I was thinking it was easy for him to talk about memorizing a third of a book in the Bible; he had time, for heaven's sake. But I didn't. What was I thinking?
That night, just before we went out and did this terrifying thing, Bill reminded us that no matter how poorly we might do in the memory department, God was pleased with us and would bless his Word.
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4th and Goal
Bill McCartney encourages you to exercise godly behavior
in your relationships and when dealing with issues such as
pornography, business ethics, credit cards, and more. |
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Point Man, Revised & Expanded
Revising his phenomenal bestseller, Steve Farrar helps men
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WOW Hits 2005
Here's what you've been waiting for! All your favorite
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Left Behind & Tribulation Force, DVD Pack
The stage is set for post-rapture believers to confront
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Sports Spectrum
Avery Atkins: Still Growing
By Jim Gibbs
The team that prays together wins together. At least that's what running back-defensive back Avery Atkins noticed last year.
"Every single one of the football players on our team is at the FCA chapel meetings before the game," Atkins says. "We are a team that loves God and wants to honor him, and I think that's why he blessed us so much last season."
Atkins, who is a senior this year at Mainland High School in Daytona Beach, Florida, started at running back and at cornerback last year and gained 735 yards on 52 carries.
At 6-1, 190 pounds, he's not easy to bring down, especially since he runs a 40-yard dash in 4.39 seconds. More …
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FAMILY OVERBOARD!
Their boat was capsized. At eight months pregnant, Jan Tjader knew she couldn't make it through the night. But perhaps her husband and daughter had a chance.
Don't Forget to Live
How to move beyond the disappointment of infertility.
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