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When telling his young daughter the story of Abraham and Isaac, a father related how God had finally told Abraham not to kill Isaac and had provided a sacrificial lamb instead. The little girl looked up with a sad expression and said, “I don’t like killing lambs.” The father was speechless for a moment and … Continue reading “SACRIFICIAL LAMB”

A woman had just returned from a meeting of the National Organization for Women (NOW) when her five-year-old daughter greeted her with the news that she wanted to be a nurse when she grew up. “A nurse!” her mother exclaimed. “Listen, Lisa, just because you’re female doesn’t mean you have to settle for being a … Continue reading “ROLES”

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Blackmailers once sent C. H. Spurgeon a letter to the effect that if he did not place a certain amount of money in a certain place at a certain time, they would publish some things in the newspapers that would defame him and ruin his public ministry. Spurgeon left at that station a letter in … Continue reading “RIGHTEOUSNESS, PERSONAL”

“He who would gain righteousness by faith and works is as the dog who runs along a stream with a piece of meat in his mouth, and, deceived by the reflection of the meat in the water, opens his mouth to snap at it, and so loses both the meat and the reflection” (Martin Luther, … Continue reading “RIGHTEOUSNESS, QUEST FOR”

If we look through a piece of red glass, everything is red. If we look through a piece of blue glass, everything is blue. If we look through a piece of yellow glass, everything is yellow, and so on. When we believe in Jesus Christ as our Savior, God looks at us through the Lord … Continue reading “RIGHTEOUSNESS, BELIEVERS’”

The instructive motto of the State of Hawaii is a result of the influence of the Protestant missionaries who first came to Hawaii in 1820. It expresses a great truth in the Hawaiian language: Ua mau ke ia o ka aina i ka pono, which means, “The life of the land is preserved in righteousness.” … Continue reading “RIGHTEOUSNESS, NATIONAL”

Our eternal reward reflects the amount of God’s glory that we have allowed to shine through us. It is like a chandelier that has many light bulbs, some 25 watt, some 50 watt, and some 100 watt. The light bulbs as a whole all give and contribute light to the room. That’s the way it … Continue reading “REWARD, ETERNAL”

In the 1980 Boston Marathon, a young unknown runner named Rosie Ruiz was initially declared the winner in the women’s division of the 26-mile race. An investigation followed and it was discovered that this was only the second marathon in which she had ever run, she had no coach, she trained on an exercise cycle … Continue reading “REWARDS, LOSS OF”

Chrysostom, early church father and orator, deplored the ostentatious public lamentations that were made at Christian funerals in his day: “When I behold the wailings in public places, the groanings over those who have departed this life, the howlings and all the other unseemly behavior, I am ashamed before the heathen and the Jews and … Continue reading “RESURRECTION, BELIEVERS’”