General David M. Shoup, USMC, said, “If in this troubled world we can produce enough properly guided men, we won’t need guided missiles.” There is no greater need today than for more properly guided people. And the task of producing properly guided people belongs to the home.
Our homes are not merely to be refuges from the storms and vicissitud...
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The supreme argument for prayer is Jesus Christ. He lived the most meaningful life ever lived. The fact that he relied so very much on prayer as a source of strength and guidance is the one unanswerable argument for us to rely on prayer also.
The person who would live a happy, meaningful, and victorious life must also learn the secret of prayer. The equipment of pray...
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Former Prime Minister Nehru of India shocked many people when he said that Russia and the United States possess essentially the same kind of culture. He said the first concern of both is the acquisition of things and that spiritual values are secondary.
No greater evil can befall any nation than that.
Jesus reminded us that things are temporal. They are at the mercy...
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The Bible warns us against presuming on tomorrow when it says “Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knoweth not what a day may bring forth” (Proverbs 27:1). We are not forbidden to plan for or to think about tomorrow, but we are told not to presume upon it. Instead we are told we should live each day with the consciousness that tomorrow may not be ours....
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One of the secrets of the great life of the apostle Paul was that he learned how to forget. He did not spend his time looking at his successes or his failures. Rather, he kept focusing on the future and pressing toward the mark of Christian maturity (Philippians 3:13).
This is one of the secrets of any great life.
It was the brilliant mind of Aldous Huxley that came...
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With the New Year coming up, most everybody is getting in on the act of making a few New Year’s resolutions of their own. Here are some of my own sideline suggestions for New Year’s resolutions. Be it resolved:
To Get More Out of Church:
That you won’t try to call playing golf on Sunday your “church time” any more than you would call...
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It has always been true that our greatest saints and our greatest sinners are made of the same material. The difference in the best and worst of people is not in their instincts and impulses but rather in the goals and ends to which these are directed. The desire to get ahead, to excel, to have more and be more than others is a driving force.
We call this desire ambi...
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It is easy in the hustle and bustle of life today to complicate and clutter our lives. We easily get busy and pressure ourselves into taking on more than we can handle. Thus we overload the emotional circuits of our life and blow a fuse.
Stress, strain, guilt, and exhaustion take their toll upon our lives. God recognized this danger a long time ago and said, “R...
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One of the principal dangers we all face is placing too much value on making money and accumulating material possessions. It is such a great danger because this desire has a way of crowding out the best and finest things of life.
For one thing, it can crowd out our family. I have seen more than one person neglect their family while trying to provide more and more thi...
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