On the Dark Side
The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn’t real. I know that, and I also know that if I’m careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle. ~ Stephen King (Night Shift) I am almost forty years old and I still get afraid of the dark. It’s an irrational fear, to be sure, but fear is fear, right? Now I am not as afraid as I used to be… As a child, I was terrified! I could not be in a dark room alone without some kind of light to guide me, comfort me, soothe me. And even if I was not alone (I had eight brothers and sisters in a two...
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Endure by Max Lucado If you live in a world darkened by sin, you may be its victim. Jesus is honest about the life we are called to lead. There is no guarantee that just because we belong to him we will go unscathed. No promise is found in Scripture that says when you follow the king you are exempt from battle. No, often just the opposite is the case. How do we survive the battle? How do we endure the fray? Jesus says: “Those people who keep their faith until the end will be saved” (Matthew 24:13 NCV). He doesn’t say if you succeed you will be saved. Or if you come out...
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Fear Not, For I Am With You Always by Max Lucado “This is the day the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it” (Psalm 118:24). “This is the day” includes every day. Divorce days, final-exam days, surgery days, tax days. Sending-your-firstborn-off-to-college days. God made this day, ordained this hard hour, designed the details of this wrenching moment. He isn’t on holiday. He still holds the conductor’s baton, sits in the cockpit, and occupies the universe’s only throne. Each day emerges from God’s drawing room. Including this...
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