Why Should I Give?
November 15, 2018
“Why should we be concerned about poverty in Africa or the plight of the homeless? We didn’t cause the problems that confront people there, so why should we give?” challenged one person who seemed to feel that what happens somewhere else in the world should be left to someone else to solve.
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Have you ever had the experience of feeling that you are the “odd person out?” You have to attend a professional meeting or something you feel you should attend but would prefer to skip it. But you can’t. You have to attend. Others stand around talking, laughing, and conversing, but you stand in the back of the room alone and intimidated, looking for the exit, thinking only about getting out. What you really want to do is escape, and as fast as possible.
November 14, 2018
When you are only five feet three, and someone who is six feet five towers over you, you quickly learn what intimidation is, especially when the giant leans over you and threatens to make mincemeat out of you. We’d much prefer enemies about our own size, giving us an equal chance; but of course, life isn’t always fair.
November 13, 2018
A Sunday school teacher, trying to impress the boys in her class, told the story of David and Goliath. In the class was one boy with an attitude. He thought he was pretty tough himself, so the teacher stressed how big Goliath was, picturing him as so big and tall that he would have dwarfed Yao Ming, the seven-foot five giant of a basketball player—China’s import to the Houston Rockets at the time.
November 12, 2018
A senior citizen, eyeing a parking spot that had just been vacated at a mall, was slowly backing up his aging luxury car, to get room to maneuver into the spot when a teenager in a small, red sportscar came from the other direction and zipped into the spot. Jumping over the side of his little car, the youth called out, “That’s ‘cause I’m young and fast.” The old man revved up his engine and plowed ahead—straight into the little sportscar folding it up like an accordion. Then, turning to the horror-stricken youth, he said, “That’s ‘cause I’m old and rich.”
November 9, 2018
John Hagee worked at a children’s home and noticed that on the days that visitors were allowed, one boy invariably would come and stand by the gate. But John also noticed that no one ever came to visit the boy. One day John asked him why he always waited when no one ever came. “I’m waiting for my father,” replied the lad. “Yes, but your dad never comes so why wait?”
November 8, 2018
Do you ever wonder why you don’t get more done than you do? Perhaps there is a reason for it. Dr. Catherine Morris Cox, the American psychologist known for her work on intelligence and genius, suggested that geniuses are not produced by great intelligence alone, but by some factors that can be developed by the average person. Concentration is one of those factors. Dr. Cox’s study revealed that some of the world's greatest geniuses were not necessarily intellectual giants, but those who had the power of concentration, even though they were greatly distracted.
November 7, 2018
John Redman tells the story of a farmer who came to town and asked the chef of a new French restaurant if he could use about a million frog legs. “Oui!” he responded enthusiastically, but he quickly asked, “Where in the world would you find so many frogs?” “I have a pond at home that is filled with them,” replied the farmer, adding, “they drive me crazy night and day.”
November 6, 2018
"Nobody knows the trouble I've seen," begins an old song, but today the words might be more accurate: "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen. Nobody knows but my best friend, my neighbor, my mother, my dentist, and some woman I sat next to on the bus yesterday."
November 5, 2018
The great French painter Pierre Auguste Renoir was afflicted with arthritis that gradually crippled his hands. Little by little his hands became gnarled and twisted, and it became increasingly painful to just hold a brush. Anyone who has been strong and then has had pain begin to cripple him can relate to what Renoir went through, but Renoir's pain didn't go away with a few aspirin. Eventually holding a brush became a painful challenge. At last the arthritis put him in a wheelchair and the easel had to be lowered for him to even reach it.
November 2, 2018
Have you as a parent ever felt like giving up on a teenager when he turned his back to you and God and went the route of the Prodigal? Then today's devotional is just for you. Is it possible for a parent to separate behavior from acceptance? Not only is it possible, it is absolutely necessary. Sooner or later almost every parent has to say, "Look, kid, I love you, but what you are doing isn’t ok. You reject the behavior, not the person.
November 1, 2018
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