[Faith-talk] Fwd: Today's Turning Point with David Jeremiah

[eric calhoun]

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> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 06:00:11 -0600 (CST)
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> Subject: Today's Turning Point with David Jeremiah
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> Friday, December 28
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> All We Like Lizards
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> Do not stray . . . .
> Proverbs 7:25
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> Recommended Reading
> Matthew 18:12-14
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> It's not often that Canadians worry about
> crocodiles; but last summer, panic struck in
> Vancouver when reports surfaced of a crocodile on
> the loose. The reptile was finally captured and
> taken to an animal shelter; but it wasn't a
> crocodile at all, but a large lizard named Turtle
> who had wandered away from home. "He must have gone
> through the wooden gate," his owners told the
> newspaper.
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> There's a wandering instinct inside all of us. The
> Bible says, "All we like sheep have gone astray; we
> have turned, every one, to his own way" (Isaiah
> 53:6). Perhaps the hymnist was remembering this as
> he wrote, "Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it; prone
> to leave the God I love."
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> While the path away from Jesus may be aimless, the
> path back to Him is a straight line. There's always
> a way back to the Savior, no matter where we've
> strayed. The week between Christmas and New Year
> affords a prime opportunity to correct unhealthy
> patterns in life, to make new resolutions for Him,
> and to get back on the "straight and narrow."
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> Let's say with the Psalmist: "The wicked have laid a
> snare for me, yet I have not strayed from Your
> precepts" (Psalm 119:110).
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> There is nothing trivial in this life. By the
> neglect of slight commands, a soul may speedily get
> out of the sunlit circle and lose the gracious
> plentitude of Spirit-power.
> F. B. Meyer
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> Read-Thru-the-Bible
> Philippians 3 and 4
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