Where Value Is Earned Day 206 – 25 July Called Alongside “Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.” (1 Thessalonians 5:11, ESV) The Sentence Still Holding You Up Somewhere in your past, a sentence is still at work. Someone said it to you years ago, perhaps decades ago, […]
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Where Value Is Earned Day 205 – 24 July Two Kinds of Weight “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.” (Galatians 6:2, NIV) Two Verses That Seem to Quarrel Read Galatians 6 straight through and you may stop halfway with a frown. Paul writes, “Carry each other’s
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Where Value Is Earned Day 204 – 23 July Long-Tempered “…with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love.” (Ephesians 4:2, NKJV) The Arithmetic of Nearness Here is a curious rule about human irritation: it bears almost no relation to the size of the offence. A stranger on a train who hums tunelessly for twenty minutes
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Where Value Is Earned Day 203 – 22 July Nothing to Prove “Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.” (Philippians 2:3, ESV) The Small Drop A colleague you rather like is praised in front of everyone, or lands the promotion, or pulls off the very thing
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Where Value Is Earned Day 202 – 21 July The Lookout “Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.” (Philippians 2:4, ESV) Where the Eyes Go First The next time a group photograph of you and your colleagues appears, watch what your own eyes do.
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Where Value Is Earned Day 201 – 20 July A Low Mind “…but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.” (Philippians 2:3, KJV) The View From Behind Your Eyes Each of us lives at the centre of a world that seems, from the inside, to be arranged around us. It is
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Where Value Is Earned Day 200 – 19 July Unshakeable “…He that doeth these things shall never be moved.” (Psalm 15:5, KJV) What Does All This Honesty Buy? A fair question has been building underneath this whole week, and by the seventh day it deserves a straight answer. Six mornings running, we have looked at
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Where Value Is Earned Day 199 – 18 July The Thumb You Cannot Feel “And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.” (Exodus 23:8, KJV) Every Man Has His Price The old cynic’s line runs that every man has his price, and most of
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Where Value Is Earned Day 198 – 17 July The Least Thing “He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.” (Luke 16:10, KJV) The Test You Cannot Rehearse Suppose you had to work out whether somebody
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Where Value Is Earned Day 197 – 16 July No Better Offer “He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.” (Psalm 15:4, KJV) Circumstances Have Changed Few sentences work harder in modern life than this one: “Circumstances have changed.” It is elegant, it sounds eminently reasonable, and it dissolves an obligation without anyone
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