How God Uses Human Failure
March 13, 2019
Living in a broken world creates a kind of spiritual skepticism in our lives, especially when we see human failure mirrored in the lives of those whom we have put on pedestals thinking of them as a cut above the ordinary. Then when they fail you, you ask, “Is there anyone who really lives the life, instead of simply of using the language and saying the right things?”
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“There’s No Pulpit Like Home” read the catchy title of an article in Timemagazine, a news publication that used to be distributed pretty much all over the English-speaking world. It told of a fellowship of believers who meet together in a home, sing and share their thoughts—their tribulations, their challenges, their problems. They talk and pray, and cry together. There is a reading from the New Testament book of Hebrews followed by more discussion. In the course of their time together, they share a practice that believers have observed from the days of the Upper Room: they break bread and take a cup reflecting on the death and resurrection of Christ. “Communion” they call it.
March 12, 2019
“Dear Harold,” writes a regular listener to Guidelines, “as a member of a large mainline denomination, I have often been disenchanted with the liberalism that seems to pervade the church. We have one of the finest choirs and most beautiful buildings in the city. And yet, one is hard pressed to hear the preaching of the Gospel…. Such churches may be very wealthy indeed, and yet, they appear to be very poor.”
March 11, 2019
It's a well-established fact: how you get along with your mate can either keep you healthy or kill you, and I'm not suggesting that your mate kill you. It's how you get along with each other that can drive your blood pressure over the top, producing hypertension, and, yes, eventually a heart attack. A three-year study done by the University of Toronto Medical School tracked 103 couples, each one of whom had one party who had hypertension. And what did they find at the end of the study? They divided couples into the "happily married" group or the "not-so-happily-married" group who argued and fought a lot. At the end of the three-year study, those who were happily married were spending more time with each other and were healthier, while those who were not so blessed had seen their blood pressure go up by an average of six points and were spending less time together.
March 8, 2019
He was highly educated, one of the most prestigious and powerful of his society, and he used that power ruthlessly. By today’s standards, we might call him a right-wing Nazi extremist. He hated a certain group of people so much that he made it his purpose in life to go around dragging them from their houses and throwing them in prison. It was said he uttered threats with every breath and wanted to kill.
March 7, 2019
When you have heart pains, you should go to a cardiologist. The word comes from two Greek words cardiaand logia. The first word is translated, "heart"; the second means the study of something. Hence, a cardiologist is one who has studied the heart, a heart-doctor.
March 6, 2019
When the renowned German surgeon, Dr. Werner Forssmann (1904-1979) was in medical school, he had an idea. He believed that if a small tube were inserted into an artery and run into the heart, then the diseased heart was x-rayed, it would be possible to diagnose the problem and thus save many lives. His professors, however, were horrified and forbade him to do the experiment.
March 5, 2019
An anonymous observer wrote that it "doesn't complain about the condition of the weather, seeks no 'social security' and never asks for a vacation. It will work best when treated well, but will do its utmost to give good service when working conditions are unduly taxing its strength." No, it isn't your dog--man's best friend--who sits by the gate and awaits your arrival with wagging tail. It is your heart, located six inches below your collarbone slightly off-center on the left side of your body.
March 4, 2019
Show an optimist a glass of water which is only partly filled and he would describe it as half-full, but show the pessimist the same glass and he would call it half-empty. What is the difference? It is how we see life. It is whether we put the accent on the negative or the positive, and when it comes to home and relationships, the principle is just as true.
March 1, 2019
Time does not come to you in hours or days--not even in minutes. It is dribbled out to you by God, one second at a time. Like fine sand through our fingers, seconds that are wasted slip away and eventually pile up into minutes and hours. Years ago, the Apostle Paul provided guidelines for living when he said that we are to walk "not as unwise" but we are to “…make the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil" (Ephesians 5:16). If we are to translate Paul's words into our lives, we are going to have to do several things. Here are some guidelines in using your time wisely:
February 28, 2019
If you had a bank that credited your account each morning with $86,400, and your bank carried over no balance from day to day, but allowed you to keep whatever cash you could spend, and each evening canceled out whatever amount you had failed to use during the day, what would you do? Naturally, you would draw out every last dollar. Of course! Actually, you do have such a bank and its name is "time." Every morning it credits your account with 86,400 seconds. Every night it rules as lost whatever of this you have failed to invest.
February 27, 2019
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