Start Where You Are, Part One
To start over, you have to know where you are. To get somewhere else, it’s necessary to know where you’re presently standing.

Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
To start over, you have to know where you are. To get somewhere else, it’s necessary to know where you’re presently standing.
A basic task you accepted when you became a parent was the building of self-esteem and confidence into your offspring.
Perhaps the most tragic shades of insensitivity occur in the home. Between mates, to begin with. Needs in the heart of a wife long to be discovered by her husband. She hides them until an appropriate moment...but it never arrives. He’s “too busy.” What cursed words!
People who get involved are motivated by selfless compassion, a burden of concern that won’t stay folded and creased in a book.
For now, go out on a limb: ask God to let you help someone in urgent distress in the immediate future. Be sensitive...He’s going to answer your request!
Not bad theology for a proper, strait-laced Lord Protector of the Isles! In just a few words, Cromwell’s command stated the essence...the kernel...the practical goal of authentic Christianity.
Mentoring is the current term for discipleship, transferring truth and life lessons down to the next generation.
People don’t want to listen to a sermon when the bottom drops out. They want a refuge—a place to cry...a person to care.
The Lord is in His holy Temple...the least we can do is order our lives and adjust our attitudes to keep it quiet before Him.
Jesus asks, “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord’ and do not the things which I say?” (see Luke 6:46). Take that personally.