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Purpose | Direction
Former Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice once told graduates of the Mississippi College School of Law in Jackson that they have a responsibility to be “optimistic” in their lives. “I first learned this les...
Imitation | Children
Mom had taken her three-year-old Timmy in to the pediatrician’s office, where one of the first tasks is to weigh and measure them. After several unsuccessful attempts to get Timmy on the scale, his mother said: “Honey, Mommy has a scale ...
Love | Sacrifice
In the late 1980s, Sam Reck met a widow named JoAnn at a church event in Jacksonville, Florida and they later married. In July, JoAnn contracted COVID and died on July 12th at Lakeland Regional Medical Center. Because of her age and cond...
Fathers
In a Wall Street Journal article, James Wilson points out the urgent need in our society for families led by fathers: “An employed father helps persuade a young boy that getting a job makes more sense than hanging out on a street corne...
Cunning | Innocence
In a Turning Point Daily Devotional, David Jeremiah writes: “In the story of Adam and Eve’s temptation and fall into sin, the serpent is described as “cunning.” Before their encounter with the serpent, Adam and Eve are described as “na...
Marriage | Babies
A six-year-old boy told his father he wanted to marry the little girl across the street. The father being modern and well-schooled in handling children, hid his smile behind his hand. “That’s a serious step,” he said. “Have you thought i...
Preaching
It was Sunday evening and Harry Ironside had preached five times that day. He was weary, and on the way home his wife asked a question to which he responded with irritation. Immediately he felt conviction and apologized to his wife. Sayi...
Eternity
In Thornton Wilder’s classic play “Our Town”, there is this important line: “Everyone knows in their bones that something is eternal and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people that ever lived have bee...
Prayer | Quick Thinking
The new army recruit was given guard duty at 2 a.m. He did his best for a while, but at about 4 a.m. he went to sleep. He awakened to find the officer of the day standing before him. Remembering the heavy penalty for being asleep on guar...
