As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“According to the AP, March Madness ‘generates more wagering than any other event in the United States. The American Gaming Association estimated a record $3.3 billion would be legally bet on the games this year.’” - P&D
“I recently lost a close friend to cancer. She was only 32, and during my own questions and wonderings, it reminded me that we live in a culture that avoids death….The apostles wrote about death with startling clarity. They called it an enemy, yes, but a defeated one. They spoke of groaning, longing, waiting, and resurrection hope.” - Baptist Press
“God’s desire is that his love for us, and ours for him, would generate a deep and lasting joy that would make worship a pleasure more than an obligation and make obedience a delight more than a duty… ” - Challies
“Dementia is a loss of cognitive ability severe enough to interfere with daily life. There are more than 100 types of dementia, with Alzheimer’s, vascular, Lewy body, and frontotemporal being the most common. Each comes with unique challenges.” - TGC
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“Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen; nobody knows my sorrow.” We all know the song—or at least that much of it—and we all know the feeling.
Oh, it’s true that the losses, disappointments, failures, and wrongs that tend to lead to bitterness are “common to man” (1 Cor. 10:13), but at the same time, each person’s experience is unique. Our hearts tell us no one understands or can understand.
From there, it’s a small step downward to the attitude that no one cares. Sometimes it may even be true.
Look to the right and see: there is none who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no one cares for my soul. (ESV, Psalm 142:4)
“Scripture depicts humanity as a race of people who are under the reign of sin and death (Rom. 5:12–14) and whose hearts are deceived (Jer. 17:9).
Sermon No. 730 delivered on Lord’s-day Morning, January 20, 1867, by C.H.Spurgeon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
“Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in Me.” — John 14:1.
“Five ways that believers can unite in prayer, regardless of their views on the military conflict” - World
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We’re rich in grace to save and grace to sanctify. We’re rich in love for one another. But there’s more.
The Christian life isn’t all peace and light. There are difficulties, trials, whether the trials of temptation to sin or the trials of distancing and opposition from people we love. In these times we find that our Father, who is “the God of all comfort” (2Co 1.3), pours out that comfort on us without restraint: “our comfort abounds through Christ” (2Co 1.5).
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