If you missed the first six in this series, click here to check out these succinct lists on various areas of life.
Today’s list is condensed from Tim Kimmel’s “Legacy of Love” about teaching integrity to your children. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2020
How Faith Relates to Your Feelings
Bill Scott, a West Virginia preacher, relates an incident told by a helicopter pilot who flew from an aircraft carrier in the Pacific.
“I was flying the helicopter back to the ship when a blinding fog rolled in. Flying at a low altitude, I knew that a single mistake would plunge my crew and me into the ocean. Worse yet, I was experiencing a complete loss of balance — which is common for pilots flying by instruments. This loss of balance was so bad that despite the instrument readings I was certain that I was lying on my side.” Continue reading
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Fooled By Our Feelings
“If it feels good, do it,” was the moral imperative of my generation in the 1960s. It was fueled by Woodstock, the sexual revolution, and liberated proponents of the prerogatives of pleasure.
We’ve been told through the years in many different ways to follow our feelings. Remember the scene in Star Wars when Obi-Wan Kanobi told Luke Skywalker, “Trust your feelings, Luke! Feel the force!” Continue reading
Can You Trust Your Feelings?
Burke Hedges, in his book, “You Can’t Steal Second with Your Foot on First” tells about the day he won $86 Million.
Hedges is a motivational speaker and was conducting a weekend seminar in Orlando, Florida, where His wife, Debbie, joined him Saturday evening. On her way back to their home in St. Petersburg the next day, she stopped for gas at a convenient store and bought three lottery tickets.
When she returned home Debbie placed the tickets by the Sunday paper on the kitchen counter and began preparing a meal for dinner guests. Continue reading
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Word of the Week: Feelings
Last night Norma Jean and I were watching a Hallmark movie where the two lead characters, Jessica and Ted, were best friends from childhood.
When Ted reveals that he’s engaged to Jennifer, a high school classmate who Jessica remembers as “the queen of mean,” all kinds of feelings for Ted began to surface. To complicate matters Ted wants Jessica to plan their wedding. Continue reading
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Sunday Seed Thoughts: 3 Crosses
Today when we come to communion, we come to the cross. A song is sung. A passage read. Often we’re asked to remember Jesus and visualize Him hanging on the cross.
While we glamorize, romanticize, and celebrate the cross, the crucifixion was a shameful, humiliating, and painful means of capital punishment for the worst of criminals.
However, it’s also good to remember there were three crosses on Golgotha’s hill that day. Each has a message for us. Continue reading
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Weekly Recap: August 9-14
Good morning from Homosassa, Florida,
Welcome to several new readers who’ve subscripted to ThePreachersWord. Each week we continue to add new followers. We appreciate it.
Here’s this week’s recap of our daily posts for those of you who may have missed one. It’s also an opportunity to share ThePreachersWord with a friend, relative, or fellow Christian. Continue reading
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Friday’s List to Live By #6
This is the 6th in a series of 13 Lists to Live By. If you’ve missed any of the first 5, click here to access them.
We’ve heard from several readers who would like to see this as a regular feature. If you have an opinion, we’d love to hear from you.
Today’s list, How To Love Your Wife, is adapted from Stuart Scott’s book “The Exemplary Husband.” Continue reading
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A Father’s Love
In The Secrets Men Keep, Ken Druck and James Simmons reveal six major secrets men have.
Topping the list is that “men secretly yearn for their father’s love and approval.” Whether consciously or subconsciously this desire is a driving force behind many men trying to prove themselves. The authors offer this observation. Continue reading
A Passage To Ponder: Matthew 18:15-17
Jesus said, “Where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them” (Matt. 18:20).
When reading this passage, one of my Bible professors at Florida College, E. V. Srygley, quipped, “Where two or three are gathered together, you’re going to have a problem.”
Jesus, no doubt, knowing this, provides for us a method in dealing with a personal offense and an unrepentant sinning brother. Continue reading
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