Loving Teens
When was the last time you blessed a teenager? When was the last time you had a Coke with some of them?
Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
When was the last time you blessed a teenager? When was the last time you had a Coke with some of them?
If you rewound the tape on your conversations in your home or at church or at the workplace where you interact closely with others, would you hear words that hurt or words that encourage?
What your mind needs today is new leadership. It’s time for a shake-up in your thought life! Yield to the Spirit!
Though God desires we step out in faith and follow Him, not knowing all the details, He invites us to seek Him—to search His Word and receive His instructive wisdom.
In our hyper-efficient, GPS-guided culture, walking by faith is often considered weird, reckless, and irresponsible.
Our past at times can haunt us and keep us from experiencing God’s best for our future.
I know few joys like the joy of sudden discovery. Instantly forgotten is the pain and expense of the search, the inconveniences, the hours, the sacrifices. Bathed in the ecstasy of discovery, time stands still.
What could you do this week to reach farther, see wider, feel deeper on behalf of Christ? What could help you kindle a greater understanding and perspective, broader vision, and deeper compassion for this vast hurting world of ours?
Nothing stirs your sleepy faith like a little rescue mission—being a part of God’s great plan to reach people who are approaching eternity condemned to a fiery fate. So...wake up and join the action.
Take away courage, discipline, and determination and you have cut the heart out of real living. When Paul wrote those words, he had already endured unimaginable hardship for Christ. Yet he stayed the course.