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My wife and her family were out for a swim in a nearby river. They had invited their pastor to go with them. He was pretty much a pool swimmer, a lake swimmer. He was unfamiliar with the river currents that can make swimming a little more challenging than usual. Pastor wasn’t aware of the whirlpool in that water near the bluffs that overlooked the river. He got too close, and suddenly he got sucked into that swirling water. Their pastor was in serious trouble. And since everyone was swimming, they didn’t immediately see the danger he was in. He’d already gone down twice when he finally managed to get off one yell for help. My father-in-law responded immediately and he went in for the rescue, and he saved his pastor’s life that day.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about “Everyday Stuff, Never Everyday Again.”

My father-in-law was not a professional lifeguard. Had he waited for one that day when his pastor’s life was at stake, his pastor would have died. But this was a man who knew that he was the one that was there, and the responsibility for the rescue rests with the one who is where the dying person is. Right? Especially when it comes to the people near us who are going down spiritually; dying spiritually because they don’t know the Savior who’s the only one who can rescue them from the death penalty for their sins.

Once you realize the ultimate reason why you are where you are, your everyday activities will never be everyday again. Consider the example of the young woman in our word for today from the Word of God in 2 Kings 5:2-3. It’s the story of a young Jewish girl who has been taken captive by the Syrians and forced to become a servant girl in the home of a Syrian military leader. She’s clearly a victim of unfair circumstances that are beyond her control. She’s in a situation that had to be lonely, she’s ripped from her home, she’s forced to live in another country, and we can be pretty sure she’s in a place she doesn’t want to be. But none of that makes her forget why she is where she is. In the course of her everyday chores, she has the opportunity to save a life…and she does.

Her master, General Naaman, has developed leprosy. He will die from it unless he can find a cure which, humanly, does not exist. But the Bible tells us, “She said to her mistress, ‘If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.’” She realizes she is in a unique position to save this man’s life because she knows the dying person and she knows the only one who can save him. Now, if you belong to Jesus Christ, that is exactly the position God has put you in with the people you go to school with, the people you work with, the people you live near, the people you recreate with, the people in your family.

When you go where you go each day to do what you do each day, you go on an eternal rescue mission! Jesus put you there so you can take some of those people to heaven with you. Every day, you’re there to show by your life the difference that Jesus makes and to capture every God-given opportunity to tell them how they can belong to Him. And suddenly this everyday stuff you do, it becomes eternally significant.

That Syrian commander did not die by the way, because someone who worked for him cared enough to tell him how he could live. Imagine if that girl had been too shy or too scared to speak up about the answer she knew. Her silence would have been his death sentence. And so it is for the people near you who don’t know Jesus. Your silence could ultimately mean their death sentence, because you know the Jesus who is their only hope. They don’t know Him, but they do know you. And, humanly speaking, you are their best chance—maybe their only chance—of ever belonging to Jesus…and of ever being in heaven with you someday.

How is it that two thousand years ago, a young man from an obscure part of ancient Israel, who was an outsider to the religious establishment, and who was killed as both a political dissident and a religious imposter, founded the most influential movement of all time? Today, more than two billion people claim to be Christian, making the Christian faith the largest religion in the world. The influence of Jesus is immense and widespread in Western civilization, not only through Christian churches globally, but in Western culture and history.

Jesus is such an influential figure that even today groups fight over whether Jesus is on their side. Dr. Douglass Groothuis explores the claims people make about Jesus and compares those ideas to what Jesus actually said about Himself. Join us for great conversation.

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Babylon will fall. The Antichrist will be judged. And Jesus Christ will return in victory.

In this urgent message, Dr. Michael Youssef shows from Revelation that no false religion, godless system, or earthly power can withstand the sovereign judgment of God. Christ will return as Faithful and True, and every rival kingdom will give way before His eternal reign.

Scripture also brings the question of eternity into sharp focus: only those whose names are written in the Book of Life will stand secure before God. The time to repent, believe, and belong wholly to Christ is now.

This episode calls believers to:

• Repent without delay,
• Remain faithful to Jesus Christ alone,
• Reject spiritual deception and compromise,
• Intercede for those who are deceived,
• Live ready for Christ’s return,
• Trust the certain triumph of the Lamb.

The hour is urgent. Christ’s victory is certain. Prepare for His coming.

Scripture Focus: Revelation 17; Revelation 18; Revelation 19; Revelation 20

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Visitors to the Holy Land are often able to visit the hillside where it’s thought Jesus indeed delivered the Sermon on the Mount. It’s right on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. It’s inspiring to imagine Jesus talking with His disciples and the others gathered there. Pastor Greg Laurie has been there many times. And today on A NEW BEGINNING, he digs in to Jesus’ words that lay out the prescription for a truly rewarding life. It cuts through the cultural fog about where happiness can be found.

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Some of the most remarkable advances in medicine are happening inside companies most of us have never heard of.

For Christian investors, that raises an intriguing question: Could investing in healthcare innovation offer financial opportunity while also supporting businesses working to serve their neighbors and address some of the world’s most difficult problems?

Dr. Finny Kuruvilla believes it can.

Kuruvilla is Co-Founder, Co-Chief Investment Officer, and Senior Portfolio Manager at Eventide Investments. With an M.D. and a Ph.D. in chemistry, he brings an unusual combination of medical, scientific, and investment expertise to faith-based investing.

Kuruvilla’s interest in investing began long before he entered the investment industry.

His parents immigrated to the United States from India in 1973 with very little. As his mother worked as a bank teller, she learned the fundamentals of investing and compound interest and began putting those principles into practice.

Kuruvilla watched his parents work, save, give, and steadily improve their financial situation. Their example shaped his own understanding of financial stewardship.

Years later, while completing an M.D.-Ph.D. program in Boston, Kuruvilla received a modest stipend and began saving and investing on his own. With encouragement from a roommate studying economics at Harvard, he spent years reading and learning about investing.

One influence was legendary Fidelity investor Peter Lynch and his well-known principle of investing in what you know. For Kuruvilla, that meant bringing together two areas of expertise: medicine and investing.

Eventually, he began to see that investing in medical innovation could potentially affect far more patients than he could reach through clinical practice alone.

Kuruvilla treated patients with serious blood-related conditions, including leukemia, lymphoma, and sickle cell disease. Through that work, he became increasingly interested in the role businesses could play in accelerating medical innovation.

That vision eventually led Kuruvilla and Robin John to co-found Eventide with Jason Myhre in 2008.

Their approach is grounded in a distinctly Christian understanding of investing. Jesus commands His followers to love God and love their neighbors. If investing means owning businesses, Kuruvilla argues, Christians should consider how those businesses affect the people they serve.

Businesses can provide products and services that meet genuine human needs. That means investors can consider not only what they want to avoid but also what kinds of businesses they want to support.

Rather than viewing faith-based investing solely through the lens of screening out objectionable companies, Kuruvilla encourages investors to ask a positive question: What kinds of businesses contribute to the common good and serve their neighbors well?

Healthcare provides a striking example.

Kuruvilla points to recent developments in treating pancreatic cancer, historically one of the most difficult cancers to treat.

Researchers have made progress targeting RAS, a protein that signals cells to divide. When RAS is mutated, that signal can remain active, allowing cancer cells to continue multiplying. Scientists have long considered RAS extraordinarily difficult to target, but new therapies are beginning to change that.

For Kuruvilla, breakthroughs like these illustrate what can happen when scientific discovery, entrepreneurship, and investment capital work together.

Investors provide capital to businesses. Those businesses can then use that capital to develop medicines

You prayed. You said yes. You took the scary step. Shouldn’t something be happening by now? How do you trust God’s timing when your plans are packed and God apparently isn't going to hurry. Trevor and Tanya Kravick join FamilyLife Today guest host Cheryl Shumake to discuss six years of waiting, a lost job, open-heart surgery, and a calling that refused to follow their calendar.

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