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The latest diagnosis in the mental health industry is called the “Truman Show Disorder,” and it is defined as the pervasive belief that every aspect of your life is being filmed without your knowledge to be used on a reality television program. Canadian psychiatrists Joel and Ian Gold say the growth…

Rousseau thought this way: I bless God for his gifts, but I do not pray to him. Why should I ask him to change for me the course of things, to work miracles on my behalf? I who ought to love above all the order established by his wisdom and maintained by his providence. In a similar vein, Immanuel Kant…

D.J. Barnhouse gives this ill. We will suppose the case of a man who loves violin music. He has the means to buy for himself a very fine violin, and he also purchases the very best radio obtainable. He builds up a library of the great musical scores, so that he is able to take any piece that is announced…

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes – that every particle of spray that dashes against the steamboat has its orbit, as well as the sun in the heavens – that the chaff from the hand of the winnower is steered as the stars…

*Tony Campolo tells about the time he was asked to speak at a Pentecostal college. Before the service, eight men had him kneel so they could place their hands on his head and pray. Tony was glad to have the prayer, but each of them prayed a long time, and the longer they prayed the more they pushed on…

We recently had a group of our men who went deep sea fishing. Evidently, there had been some reports that, because of the unusual weather we had been having this year, there was a certain kind of fish that were being caught by the boatloads, literally. Now, I’m not much of a fisherman, but these guys…

In his book The Pressure's Off, psychologist Larry Crabb uses a story from his childhood to illustrate our need to delight in God through adversity: One Saturday afternoon, I decided I was a big boy and could use the bathroom without anyone's help. So I climbed the stairs, closed and locked the door…

Francis Chan speaks of this in his own family. He said that his inability to control came home to him with his own teenage daughter. He said he realized that she was not in love with Jesus. He said that he spent nights, crying, bawling, and praying for the Lord. I don’t know if you know who Francis Chan…

I read about some kids who lined up in the cafeteria of a religious school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. Evidently, some industrious teacher had been concerned that every child have one of those apples and, knowing that some of her students might be tempted to take more…

I love what Madeleine L’Engle wrote in her book A Wrinkle in time. She wrote: “I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view. When we really come to grips with that, our prayers become less like demands and more like conversations. I know God and I do ask, just like that widow, but all…

When Bulstrode Whitelock left as Oliver Cromwell’s ambassador to Sweeden in 1653, England was in shambles. A Civil war had lead to the execution of Charles 1, the former king. The result was a split between the army and the government that didn’t seem to be heading toward a resolution. Not only that,…

I’ve heard it explained that it is like looking at the back side of a tapestry, and all we see is a whole lot of threads in the most disorganized and haphazard manner. Yet when we are with the Lord in heaven we will then see the other side, the right side of the tapestry, and we will see the wonderful…

In the book, The Buzzards Are Circling, But God’s Not Finished With Me Yet, Stan Toler says one of the biggest struggles on earth is not fought on the battlefield, but rather in the living room over the television remote control. He writes, “If someone doesn’t like one of the 225 available satellite…

In his book The Divine Commodity, Skye Jethani shares a story from a trip he took to India with his father. While walking the streets of New Delhi, a little boy approached them. He was "skinny as a rail, and naked but for tattered blue shorts. His legs were stiff and contorted, like a wire hanger twisted…

HE HAD SERVED ON THE SEAS SSINCE HE WAS ELEVEN YEARS OLD. HIS FATHER, AN ENGLISH SHIPMASTER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, TOOK HIM ABOARD AND TRAINED HIM WELL FOR A LIFE IN THE ROYAL NAVY. YET WHAT JOHN GAINED IN EXPERIENCE, HE LACKED IN DISCIPLINE. HE MOCKED AUTHORITY. RAN WITH THE WRONG CROWD. INDULGED IN…

The sovereignty of God never excuses us from responsibility. Will Metzger* Source: EMAIL Jerry Ferrso, October 15, 2008

A “JESUS” film team was returning home from showing the film to a village of unreached people. They were tired, but happy for what God had done. It was late at night, as they drove along the isolated road in a rough area…a time when thieves were active. Suddenly on the darkened road, a red light flashed…

Be refreshed by a portion of a poem by Gertrude R. Dugan: My Guide The open door of another year I've entered by grace divine; No ills I fear and no foes I dread, For a wonderful Guide is mine. Through joy of chastening though He lead, In tears though my race be run, Whate're my lot, this my prayer shall…

The word "impossible" isn't found in heaven's dictionaries; and our job is to do our best, letting the Lord do the rest. Turning Points January 2006 Page 11 Sovereignty; Possibility; Impossible;

My wife used to have a music box. Every time the lid was opened, it played a little tune: “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head!” When someone opened the box, a small brass cylinder was exposed to view. It had a lot of little spikes sticking up all over it. Also, prongs produced the different notes when…

When a cruise ship leaves port it embarks on a course for a particular destination. This is like God's sovereignty - he has you booked for passage on a set itinerary. But on that cruise ship, hundreds or thousands of people are making choices while they are on that trip. They are choosing to eat, play,…

This secret has fueled the lives of God's workers on every generation. Thomas a Kempis, the medieval German monk, wrote, "O Lord, let that which seems naturally impossible to me become possible through Your grace." Commentator Matthew Henry said, "In all conflicts, let us remember that with God nothing…

As Ravi Zacharias powerfully observes, God's sovereignty is not tyrannical when it is bounded by goodness. God's holiness is not tortuous when it is tempered by grace. God's omniscience is not taunting when it is coupled with mercy, and God's immutability is far from stifling when it is certain of good…

"What Is needed to-day is a Scriptural setting forth of the character of God-His absolute sovereignty, His ineffable holiness, His Inflexible justice, His unchanging veracity. What Is needed to-day Is a Scriptural setting forth of the condition of the natural man-his total depravity, his spiritual insensibility,…