Mark Twain said that the two most important days in your life or the day that you're born and the day that you find out why. How about you? Have you found out your “why” yet? Have you found out why you were born? Why, why God put you here at this time and place with Bible in hand? I want to take the next few moments to explore the why...

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Elizabeth Elliott in her fine book titled Suffering Is Never for Nothing, she says the deepest things I've learned in my own life have come from the deepest suffering and out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires have come. The deepest things I know about God. How about you today? Could you say that? That the deepest things you know about God and the deepest things you have learned about life that it's come to you from your deepest suffering...

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I think I'd always known that to have hope for the future was important, but I've not known how essential, how necessary it is to have hope until I was a chaplain for hospice. Spending time with people who measured out the future in weeks days and some even in hours, the great Russian novelist Dostoyevsky said that to live without hope is to cease to live.

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“When in the course of human events…” I've always thrilled to the sound of those words beginning our Declaration of Independence and, and the words that follow about how you and I are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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David and Goliath. What a story. It's a story a lot of us have loved from the time that we were little kids. A story that thrills us, that inspires us. It is a classic underdog story where against all odds, a young shepherd boy, he takes on and he defeats the giant warrior Goliath and he sends the Philistines running. Even people who don't know much about the Bible, well, they know the story of David and Goliath, but...

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Did you know that the most important conversation you're going to have today is that conversation that you'll be having with yourself today? You're going to have conversations with yourself about the past. You will talk to yourself about the future. You'll be talking to yourself about all that's going on in your life. And no one is more influential in your life than you are because no one talks to you as much as you talk to yourself.

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The agony of the tea leaves is what sets apart really good tea from the tasteless tea bags in our supermarkets. The agony describes the writhing, the twisting, the unfurling of tea leaves as boiling water is poured over them. And it is in that moment of agony that...

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As I started out the day feeling confused, upset by the news, by what's going on in the world, and I will always be grateful to my mom for first teaching me about the Psalms when I was a boy. When my mom told me that I could find a Psalm for every feeling I had. She said that there's a psalm for just about every life situation, and you know...

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John Wooden is remembered as one of the greatest coaches in sports history. Although he's long gone from us, he continues to inspire with his emphasis on fundamentals, teamwork and character. John Wooden said that the true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching. What we do when no one is watching is something I've been thinking about recently and something that I want to think aloud with you for the next few moments.

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I've heard it said that there were three kinds of prayer: there's “help”, there's “thanks”, and there's “wow.” And it's a “wow” kind of prayer that I'm praying today. And a “wow” prayer that I'm eager to share with you is a, there is a sense of astonishment, amazement.

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