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When we are hit with a crisis, it can turn our lives upside down. Suddenly we discover that the things we prioritize under normal circumstances have no real value in the light of eternity. Pastor Lutzer explores how God can use crises to get His message across to us and to help us see what lasts. Originally Published: Feb 1, 2021
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We often depend on our own wisdom, or even the world’s, in making everyday decisions. God’s purposes flow from His wisdom, so we should seek His wisdom. Pastor Lutzer reflects on God’s multi-faceted wisdom to create His church and how we can depend on God’s wisdom in our everyday decisions. Do we consult God’s wisdom? This episode was originally published February 18, 2019 as “The Attributes of God | Week 7: Wise."
"To bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created all things, so that through the church …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - December 28
The friendship of the world is enmity with God. —James 4:4
It is like the ivy with the oak. The ivy may give the oak a grand, beautiful appearance, but all the while it is feeding on its vitals. Are we compromising with the enemies of God? Are we being embraced by the world by its honors, its pleasures, its applause? This may add to us in the world's estimation, but our strength becomes lost. —Denham Smith
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - December 19
A hearer of the word . . . a doer of the work. —James 1:23, 25
Religion may be learned on Sunday, but it is lived in the week-day’s work. The torch of religion may be lit in the church, but it does its burning in the shop and on the street. Religion seeks its life in prayer, but it lives its life in deeds. It is planted in the closet, but it does its growing out in the world. It plumes itself for flight in songs of praise, but its actual flights are …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 17
Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. —James 1:4
Are you where God would have you be? If not, come out, and at once, for you certainly ought not to be there. If you are, then be afraid to complain of circumstances which God has ordained on purpose to work out in you the very image and likeness of His Son. —Mark Guy Pearse
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4 Steps for Bringing Healing to a Divided Nation
When Donald J. Trump took the stage late in the night to celebrate his presidential win, one phrase particularly resonated with me, he acknowledged, “It is time to heal.”
Yes, it is time to heal, and the churches of America should lead the way. The election is over, but divisions remain in our churches and in our families. Which leads us to a pressing question: How can we as evangelicals be unified and have a credible witness to the Gospel before the watching world? I would like to share four key …
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The Bible has been dissected and vilified by the world and yet it endures with coherency. This week, Pastor Lutzer instructs us on God's consistent truth from James 1:18.
"Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures."- James 1:18
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After the inauguration America is going to need the church more than ever! The election is long past, but the divisions remain—and some of these divisions exist within our churches. Which leads us to a pressing question: How can we as evangelicals be unified and have a credible witness to the Gospel before the watching world? I would like to share three key steps that I think will start us in the right direction.
1. Listen Without Judging
“… be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger…” – James 1:19
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - December 20
Ye know not what shall be on the morrow. —James 4:14
“To-morrow” is the devil's great ally—the very Goliath in whom he trusts for victory. “Now” is the stripling sent forth against him. . . The world will freely agree to be Christians to-morrow if Christ will permit them to be worldly to-day. —William Arnot
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - December 11
What is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeared for a little time, and then vanisheth away. —James 4:14
“Only one life; ‘twill soon be past—And only what’s done for Christ will last.” —Selected
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