No Place for Islands
We need each other. You need someone and someone needs you. Isolated islands we’re not. To make this thing called life work, we gotta lean and support.
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Insight for Today
Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
Sunday Listening, Part Two
Writing down the outline and a few thoughts during the sermon also keeps the mind from drifting off course.
Sunday Listening, Part One
What can be done by the listener to keep the sermon interesting? Instead of thinking about how the preacher could improve, let’s turn to the flip side and consider how we could improve our listening skills.
Labels
Being alert and discerning, basing one’s opinion on the absolute truth, is a sign of maturity, a mark of excellence in a life. But pasting labels on people and churches and schools with only partial facts, feelings, and opinions to back those statements up is worse than unfair...it’s un-Christian.
The Legacy of Learning, Part Two
Ignorance is not bliss. On the contrary, it is the breeding ground for fear, prejudice, and superstition, to name just a few. Knowledge is critical.
The Legacy of Learning, Part One
Slice it any way you wish, ignorance is not bliss. Dress it in whatever garb you please, ignorance is not attractive. Neither is it the mark of humility nor the path to spirituality. It certainly is not the companion of wisdom.
Insensitivity, Part Two
Read 1 Peter 4:8
Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins. (1 Peter 4:8)
Insensitivity, Part One
Read Galatians 6:2, 10
Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ. (Galatians 6:2)
My kids pulled a fast one on me one Christmas years ago. They teamed up, pooled their vast financial resources, and bought me a little motto to set on my desk. It was more than cute...it was convicting. In bold, black letters it read:
DIETS ARE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE THICK AND TIRED OF IT
At first you thmile...then it makes you thad. Especially if you’re not thick of being thick!
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Read Matthew 12:21; Acts 2:26; 1 Corinthians 15:54–57
And his name will be the hope of all the world. (Matthew 12:21)
No wonder my heart is glad, and my tongue shouts his praises! My body rests in hope. (Acts 2:26)
Hope is our lifeline, keeping us engaged in the struggle. Marathoners press on to the finish line as long as they have hope. Nothing—virtually nothing—is able to defeat us if our hope stays alive.
Like Him We Rise
Read 1 Corinthians 15:13–14
For if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your faith is useless. (1 Corinthians 15:13–14)
Let’s assume for a minute that there is no resurrection. The apostle Paul follows that thought in his first letter to the Corinthians and comes up with at least six results. If Christ hadn’t been raised:
