A report came out today showing that many teens have unrealistic expectations for themselves and for their lives. Apparently, if you spend decade after decade telling students that they can be anything and do anything, they start to believe it. The problem with this approach is that many of them are having trouble adjusting to [...]
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Gentleness is not weakness. In other words, being gentle and being weak is not the same thing. Instead, gentleness is power under control. Those who are gentle are those who have great power but control those powers and use them to build up and care for others. Isaiah chapter 40 provides us with an example [...]
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As we saw in Romans 8 last Sunday, Paul tells us that Christians are “more than conquerors” because they have the power and love of God, himself, working in their lives. How does this play out in the Christian’s daily life? It is impossible to write about all of the ways this fact impacts the [...]
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I don’t know about you, but I have grown tired of seeing reports in the newspaper, on the Internet, and on T.V. about Miley Cyrus. You would have to be living in a very, deep, dark cave to have not heard about the sexually suggestive photos that the beloved “Hannah Montana” took for the magazine [...]
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You might notice from the time stamp on this message that it is very late at night. I’m having a little trouble sleeping tonight. Don’t worry about me, I’ll catch up on my sleep at work tomorrow (Ha, Ha). I think that tea I had right before bed might not have been decaffeinated because my [...]
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