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Wisdom
“Wisdom is seeing life situations from God’s viewpoint.” Recently in the news, as I write this, Robert Kraft, billionaire owner of the New England patriots; John Havens, former president and Chief operating officer of CitiGroup; John Childs, founder of the private equity firm J.W. Childs & associates, along with hundreds of others were arrested in Florida for allegedly soliciting prostitutes. The names mentioned are intelligent, knowledgeable people or they would not be as successful as they are. Wonder why they made such bad decisions? The answer is there is a great difference in having intelligence and knowledge and having wisdom. Every day we see or hear about people making decisions…
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Love, the Greatest Thing in the World
According to psychologists, “Man’s greatest need is not money or material things but to love and be loved.” In 1880, Henry Drummond wrote and published a classic on love, “The Greatest Thing in the World” – According to the Bible, the greatest thing in the world is love. Drummond’s book is based on the love chapter of the Bible, 1 Corinthians 13. Sometimes we get so busy in life that we omit the most important things. One of those things is the value of “Love, the Greatest Thing in the World.” There is a story about a doctor who rushed to the bedside of a patient one morning and said,…
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Heavenly Peace Now
“It’s not the things you do in life that you regret—it’s the things you don’t do.” “In surveying the responses of hundreds of participants in six studies, researchers found that, when asked to name their single biggest regret in life, 76 percent of participants gave one top answer: they didn’t fulfill their ideal self,” -The Ideal Road Not Taken. God wants you to be your ideal self. He wants you to take the ideal road He lays out for you. Don’t resist His work in your life. He wants to give you Heavenly Peace Now beyond understanding and fill you with joy unspeakable. People look in many different places to find…