What Does the Bible Say About Work? 6 Verses to Encourage You Today
Did you know that you’ll spend approximately one-third of your life at work? It’s estimated that the average person will work 90,000 hours over the course of their lifetime. While you probably won’t spend all 90,000 of those hours at one job, there’s no denying that work will play a significant role in your life. For most of us, there…
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How to Understand the Paradoxes in Biblical Poetry
The psalms are poetry, and understanding poetry often happens in stages as we grapple with its language, images, forms, and rhythms. If a poem expresses paradox, or communicates the reality of living with ambivalence, or traces the hazy outline of mystery—we are likely to be put off, confused, or terrified. This may be especially true of biblical poetry. We know…
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5 Psalms of Peace for Your Busy Life
As you begin reading this, perhaps you’re overwhelmed with a sense of urgency. Maybe you feel guilty for taking time out of your busy schedule to read a blog. But you’re desperate for relief from it all. Knots in your stomach. Clenched jaw. Tightened muscles in your back, neck, everywhere. Racing thoughts. The calendar fills up, the tasks pile up,…
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5 Important Ways to Excel as a Leader
Do small-group Bible studies really need leaders? Can’t a bunch of people just get together and swap ideas about a particular passage? That’s not as easy as you might think. It takes a high degree of motivation, discipline, and coordination among the group members. It can happen, but it seldom works smoothly. This doesn’t mean a group must have a…
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Pray for the Aboriginal People of Australia
What if you had no access to the Old Testament? No account of creation? No record of God’s early works of deliverance, forgiveness, patience, and love? For a large majority of Australia’s Aboriginal people, the full Bible does not exist in their widely spoken language of Pitjantjatjara, leaving more than 10,000 people without the complete story of God’s love. For…
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How the Bible Can Make Us Kinder People
Kindness seems to be a lost art these days. Our culture puts an emphasis on self-promotion and achievement rather than on caring for others. Often showing kindness is not seen as a priority, and for some, it is viewed as a weakness. Even for those of us who believe that kindness is a good thing, we are often too busy…
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How to Have a Balanced Diet of Scripture
I don’t remember much about the decorations in my elementary school classrooms, but one colorful poster comes to mind. It hung on the wall and was referenced often when my teacher—Mrs. Fulghum—discussed the four food groups. Each day, she said, we should eat something in the milk group, the meat and eggs group, the fruits and vegetables group, and the…
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