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I Desire Mercy Not Sacrifice
Experiencing the mercy of God in our lives
Ready & Faithful
Looking to Jesus for help now and hope in the future
Why Suffering?
Help your church understand God's plan in pain
St Augustine wrote Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure. Where your treasure is, there is your heart. Where you heart is, there is your ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 4:1-5, Proverbs 4:23
Tags: Gifts Giving
Denomination: Baptist
The way to stay free from sin Is to stay committed to God ...read more
Scripture: James 4:7-12, Matthew 6:10, Matthew 26:39, Romans 6:13, Ephesians 4:26-27, Ephesians 6:11, 1 Peter 5:8-9, Proverbs 1:10, Proverbs 4:14, 2 Peter 3:17, Luke 10:19, Luke 22:31-32, Romans 16:20, 1 Corinthians 10:13, Hebrews 2:18, 1 John 4:4, Revelation 3:10, Revelation 3:21 (view more) (view less)
Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
From the movie Rocky Balboa: Rocky’s son is frustrated from living his life in his dad’s big shadow after a heated rebuke from his son Rocky gives this little speech. "You ain’t gonna believe this, but you used to fit right here. I’d hold you up, to say to your mother, this kid is gonna be the ...read more
Scripture: Proverbs 3:11-12
Tags: Excuses
Denomination: Mennonite
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. He who is endowed with it may perform very good or very bad actions; all ...read more
Scripture: Proverbs 3:5-7, 1 Thessalonians 4:11, 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
Tags: Ambition
"If our company is to be more successful than the enterprises with which we compete, it will be becauseall our people are distinguished by a small positive increment of devotion, dedication or determination beyond that of their opposite numbers elsewhere. It is such modest differences in individual ...read more
Scripture: Proverbs 6:6
Tags: Business And Marketplace
"Success is sweet, but its secret is sweat. Fortunately, no one has ...read more
Scripture: Proverbs 1:1
Tags: Workplace Success
A BAD BOY I once heard of a father who had a prodigal boy, and the boy had sent his mother down to the grave with a broken heart. One evening the boy started out as usual to spend the night in drinking and gambling, and his old father, as he was leaving, said, "My son, I want to ask a favor of you ...read more
Scripture: Proverbs 7:1-27
Tags: Parable Prodigal Son
Denomination: *other
ON WISDOM "The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil." (Cicero) "Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it." (J.I. ...read more
Scripture: Proverbs 2:1-22
Tags: Wisdom
GRAHAM: I WOULD READ THE BIBLE MORE In an interview with Newsweek on 14 Aug 2006, Billy Graham, then aged 88, was asked what would he do if he could live his life over again. The article writes: If he had his life to live over again, Graham says he would spend more time immersed in Scripture and ...read more
Scripture: Proverbs 4:3-13
Tags: Bible Study
THE BIBLE CHANGES LIVES Research consistently shows what a person believes translates into behavior. A major survey of more than 3,700 teens involved in evangelical churches reveals that, compared to teens who possess a solid, biblical belief system, young people who lack such basic biblical ...read more
Tags: Bible Influence
GUIDANCE IN LIFE It makes a difference who your leader is! When we were kids going on summer vacation, I don’t ever remember my dad getting lost. -- But Eric Ritz writes: When I was a young boy, our family always vacationed together. It was my mother and father and five kids in an old Ford Falcon ...read more
Scripture: Proverbs 1:1-33
BEFORE YOU LEAD ME, WHERE ARE YOU GOING? I heard the story of the woman driving through a snowstorm just outside of Denver. She was completely lost and struggling under the hazardous weather conditions. She was relieved when she happened upon a snowplow. Since she was lost she decided to follow ...read more
Scripture: Proverbs 3:5-6
Tags: Direction, Leadership, Goals, Lead, Drive (view more) (view less)
Missionary Encounters Ants Steven Cook tells of reading an account of a missionary from India: "The Lord must have desired to teach me something through the "ants" because He allowed me to come in contact with enough of them! The encyclopedia says there are more ants than any other insect. It seems ...read more
Scripture: Proverbs 6:1-11
Tags: Missions
Seek Wisdom There’s a story about a proud young man who came to Socrates asking for knowledge. He walked up to the muscular philosopher and said, “O great Socrates, I come to you for knowledge.” Socrates recognized a pompous numbskull when he saw one. He led the young man through the streets, to ...read more
Scripture: Proverbs 4:5-7
THE PARENT TRAP: THE JOY OF HAVING A DAD Anyone ever seen the original The Parent Trap with Hayley Mills done in 1961? Have you seen the remake from 1998? In the remake Lindsay Lohan plays the twins and Dennis Quaid is the father. If you know the story then you’ll remember that identical twins, ...read more
Scripture: Proverbs 1:8-9
Tags: Father's Day
Deadly Civil War Gun Powder Explosion Due To Carelessness by Troops When the Federal troops occupied Cheraw, South Carolina, the Confederates left so much gun powder behind that the Union troops decided to dump most of it in a little creek. Some of the Union troops were looking for some ...read more
Scripture: Proverbs 6:27-28
Tags: War, Temptation Sex
Medical School Professor Teaches Students the Consequences of Abortion A professor in a world-acclaimed medical school once posed this medical situation to his students: “Here’s the family history: The father has syphilis. The mother has TB. They already have had four children. The first is blind. ...read more
Scripture: Proverbs 6:16-17
Tags: Abortion
Trust the One Who Can See Over the Crowd In a time of fear and uncertainty, Jesus disciples were very careful to do exactly what He told them to do. and That’s what we must do if we want to survive and thrive in these days of fear and uncertainty. Anne Graham Lotz says that when she and her ...read more
Tags: Trust
Resisting the Temptation to Lie It’s the only thing we can do when we can’t see ahead – follow the Lord step-by-step. That means doing what we know HE wants us to do, even if it doesn’t always make sense to us. Jim George, in his book, God’s Man of Influence, talks about trying to sell a used ...read more
Tags: Temptation Resisting
QUESTIONS HELP YOU LEARN...? A father and his small son were out walking one day when the lad asked how electricity could go through the wires stretched between the telephone poles. "I don't know," said his father. "I never knew much about electricity." A few blocks farther on, the boy asked ...read more
Scripture: Proverbs 4:1-2
Tags: Children