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Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse [ Deut. 11:26 ]. Israel was commanded to obey. Obedience was the very nub of the matter. A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day [ Deut. 11:27 ]. Obedience is something which has been dropped into…

When I was a young Christian, during my teen years, I remember praying for the salvation of my parents. At the time I was also wrestling with the call to ministry, the call to preach. I tried in my prayers to bargain with God. I told him, “If you save my parents, then I will accept your call to preach.”…

Have you ever considered how much you insult God the Father by rejecting Christ? If you were invited to a feast and you should come to the table and dash down every dish, and throw them on the ground, and trample on them, would not this be an insult? If you were a poor beggar at the door, and a rich…

A truly good soldier of Jesus Christ knows nothing about difficulties except as things to be surmounted. If his Master bids him perform exploits too hard for him, he draws upon the resources of omnipotence, and achieves impossibilities. Wellington sent word to his troops one night, “Ciudad Rodrigo must…

When a new road is opened, it is set apart and dedicated for the public use. Sometimes a public building is opened by a king or a prince, and so is dedicated to its purpose. Beloved, the way to God through Jesus Christ is dedicated by Christ, and ordained by Christ for the use of poor believing sinners…

The man who waits until he shall find it easier to bear the yoke of obedience is like the woodman who found his bundle of wood too heavy for his idle shoulder. Placing it upon the ground, he gathered more wood and added to the bundle, then tried it. But finding it still an unpleasant load, he repeated…

The doctor feels your pulse. “I will send you some medicine,” says he, “that will be very useful, and besides that, you must take a warm bath.” He comes the next day; you say to him, “Doctor, I thought you were going to heal me. I am not a bit better.” “Why,” said he, “you do not trust me.” “I do, sir;…

When we intend to do Christian service tomorrow, and do it faithfully and well, yet we sin. There is a contract for certain steamers to carry Her Majesty’s mails, and they are bound to leave Liverpool at such a time and arrive at New York so long afterwards. Suppose they leave six hours after the time.…

Obedience has to be learned experimentally. If a man is to learn a trade thoroughly, he must be apprenticed to it. A soldier, sitting at home and reading books, will not learn the deadly art of war. He must go to the barracks, and the camp, and the field of battle if he is to win victories and become…

I have known persons try to humble themselves by will-worship. I have stood in the cell of a monk, when he has been out of it, and I have seen the whip with which he flagellated himself every night before he went to bed. I thought that it was quite possible that the man deserved all he suffered, and…

When our Lord met the disciples at Emmaus and talked with them, they did not know Him while He talked with them. But when do you think they knew that they knew Him? It was not until they performed an act of obedience by offering hospitality to a stranger. Then He was known to them in the breaking of…

Old Hugh Latimer preached before Henry VIII. It was the custom of the court preacher to present the king with something on his birthday, and Latimer presented Henry VIII with a pocket handkerchief with this text in the corner: “God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers” (Heb 13:4)—a very…

I might illustrate the willfulness of many a supplication by that of a little boy who was very diligent in saying his prayers, but was at the same time disobedient, ill-tempered, and the pest of the house. His mother told him that she thought it was mere hypocrisy for him to pretend to pray. He replied,…

Ree Drummond, the quite famous “Pioneer Woman” blogger, turned author, turned television icon, describes how her success is rooted in the reality that she, “wrote about and cooked things for which I had a great passion…. It definitely shows in the finished product.” On television, and in her cookbooks…

Ford says they have created a car that reads speed limit signs and slows down by itself. The company says the newest edition of its S-Max car has a technology that scans traffic signs and adjusts the throttle to help keep drivers with legal speed limits and avoid fines. The new system, called the intelligent…

New Jersey police are reinforcing good behavior by giving out tickets. They say normally when a person gets a ticket, it’s a bad thing. But with the new policy, it is sometimes a good thing. Two bicyclists were some of the first people to learn about the new policy. Sgt. Ostermueller of the Cherry Hills…

The old quote says that “nothing is certain except death and taxes.” Fair enough. Looks like there is something else that applies to all—even the powerful: jury duty. Former President Obama just got a summons to serve. And just like everyone else, he will rack up $17.25 a day for his service.—Jim L.…

In the motion picture, The Patriot, Gabriel Martin, (played by Heath Ledger) interrupts a worship service already in progress to enlist soldiers for the militia. As Rev. Oliver, (played by Rene Auberjonois) resisted, Anne Howard, played by Lisa Brenner took the floor to support Gabriel’s request. Option…

In his book, Practicing Basic Spiritual Disciplines, Charles Stanley writes “When the Holy Spirit speaks to an obedient person’s heart, that person doesn’t even stop to consider whether he will act. He responds instantly.” -- Practicing Basic Spiritual Disciplines, 17. Deuteronomy 11:1 (NASB77) "You…

In a new book about John Dickinson we discover some new truths about this leader in the American Revolution. Dickinson was there in the beginning of our country but he disagreed with the Declaration of Independence. He believed that Americans should give the English time to come to understand their colony…

Bernie Madoff is the disgraced money manager serving a 150-year prison sentence for swindling investors out of $65 billion in the world’s largest Ponzi scheme. Once a schemer always a schemer, it seems. He is still running a racket. He has bought up every package of Swiss Miss from the commissary and…

A couple in Glendora, California are receiving mixed messages from their governments. The city has threatened to fine them $500 if they don’t begin watering their lawn where as the state is threatening to fine residents $500 for wasting water on outdoor use. They don’t know what to do. Fined if you do,…

In “Restraint in Relationships,” Mike Clements writes, “Mustering restraint in hostile relationships can feel like walking through a minefield. Our footing will seem unsure as we meet hostility with restraint. God’s character and resurrection power help Christians rise above the hostility of this world.…

In “A Life of Purity,” Dallas Bivins writes, “No one could compete with the Pharisees when it comes to pure doctrine. Now a pure heart, that's another issue. Pharisees could scale volumes of regulations while tripping over the law's intentions. Whether he spoke of murder, adultery, or marriage, Jesus…

The New York City Commission on Human Rights issued new rules that impose fines of up to $25,000 on property owners who “misgender” employees or tenants. By “misgender” they mean that employers and landlords must “use an individual’s preferred name, pronoun and title regardless of the individual’s sex…