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Great Days With the Great Lives
This devotional features daily insight taken from Charles Swindoll's Great Lives series. Each day, readers will find a scripture reference and a devotional thought taken straight from one of the Great Lives of the Bible. These lives offer hope to all of us. They show that God can do extraordinary things through ordinary men and women, and offer insightful perspective on what it means to be truly spiritual men and women after God's own heart.
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384 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2006
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About the author
Charles R. Swindoll
968 books846 followersCharles Swindoll has devoted over four decades to two passions: an unwavering commitment to the practical communication and application of God's Word, and an untiring devotion to seeing lives transformed by God's grace. Chuck graduated magna cum laude from Dallas Theological Seminary and has since been honored with four doctorates. For his teaching on Insight for Living, he has received the Program of the Year award and the Hall of Fame award from the National Religious Broadcasters as well as multiple book awards.
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December 30, 2022
Halfway through this book, I was prepared to give it two stars. There is some serious eisegesis going on, particularly in the life of Job. But there are also so many nuggets of truth, especially in the section on Paul, that I changed my mind. The quality of the writing and thinking is definitely uneven, but the devotional is still worth reading.
Here are a few of my favorite quotes:
P.357
All over this world, around us every day, are people who are looking for the truth to be lived out in the lives of those who claim it. Just as the widow watched Elijah, there are people watching you. They hear what you say you believe, but they are watching to see what you do.
Remember, you are here by God’s appointment, you are in His keeping, you are under His training, for His time. Give Him the corpse of your life, and ask Him to revive those lifeless areas that need to be revived. If the situation calls for it, trust Him for a miracle, in His time, if it be His will, for your life.
P.633
Don’t miss that point. The very things we dread and run from in our lives are precisely what brought contentment to Saul. Look at the list: I am content when I lose. I am content when I am weak. I am content with insults. I am content when I’m slandered. I am content in distresses. I am content with persecutions. I am content with difficulties and pressures that are so tight I can hardly turn around. Why? “Because when I am weak then I’m strong” (v. 10). Knowing that brought the apostle, ablaze with the flaming oracles of heaven, to his knees. What a way to live your life—content in everything—knowing that divine strength comes when human weakness is evident.
That’s what gave the man of grace true grit.
P.702
We’d rather admire Paul for his strength in trials. We want to applaud his fierce determination against vicious persecution. If the man were alive today, he would not tolerate our congratulations. “No, no, no. You don’t understand. I’m not strong. The One who pours His power into me is strong. My strength comes from my weakness.” That’s no false modesty. Paul would tell us, “Strength comes from embracing weakness and boasting in that.” It is that kind of response that brings divine strength and allows it to spring into action.
J. Oswald Sanders, in his book Paul, the Leader, writes, “We form part of a generation that worships power—military, intellectual, economical, scientific. The concept of power is worked into the warp and woof of our daily living. Our entire world is divided into power blocs. Men everywhere are striving for power in various realms, often with questionable motivation.”
The celebrated Scottish preacher James Stewart made a statement that is also challenging: “It is always upon human weakness and humiliation, not human strength and confidence, that God chooses to build His Kingdom; and that He can use us not merely in spite of our ordinariness and helplessness and disqualifying infirmities, but precisely because of them.”
Here are a few of my favorite quotes:
P.357
All over this world, around us every day, are people who are looking for the truth to be lived out in the lives of those who claim it. Just as the widow watched Elijah, there are people watching you. They hear what you say you believe, but they are watching to see what you do.
Remember, you are here by God’s appointment, you are in His keeping, you are under His training, for His time. Give Him the corpse of your life, and ask Him to revive those lifeless areas that need to be revived. If the situation calls for it, trust Him for a miracle, in His time, if it be His will, for your life.
P.633
Don’t miss that point. The very things we dread and run from in our lives are precisely what brought contentment to Saul. Look at the list: I am content when I lose. I am content when I am weak. I am content with insults. I am content when I’m slandered. I am content in distresses. I am content with persecutions. I am content with difficulties and pressures that are so tight I can hardly turn around. Why? “Because when I am weak then I’m strong” (v. 10). Knowing that brought the apostle, ablaze with the flaming oracles of heaven, to his knees. What a way to live your life—content in everything—knowing that divine strength comes when human weakness is evident.
That’s what gave the man of grace true grit.
P.702
We’d rather admire Paul for his strength in trials. We want to applaud his fierce determination against vicious persecution. If the man were alive today, he would not tolerate our congratulations. “No, no, no. You don’t understand. I’m not strong. The One who pours His power into me is strong. My strength comes from my weakness.” That’s no false modesty. Paul would tell us, “Strength comes from embracing weakness and boasting in that.” It is that kind of response that brings divine strength and allows it to spring into action.
J. Oswald Sanders, in his book Paul, the Leader, writes, “We form part of a generation that worships power—military, intellectual, economical, scientific. The concept of power is worked into the warp and woof of our daily living. Our entire world is divided into power blocs. Men everywhere are striving for power in various realms, often with questionable motivation.”
The celebrated Scottish preacher James Stewart made a statement that is also challenging: “It is always upon human weakness and humiliation, not human strength and confidence, that God chooses to build His Kingdom; and that He can use us not merely in spite of our ordinariness and helplessness and disqualifying infirmities, but precisely because of them.”
November 9, 2020
Swindon provides insight to the scriptures
Chuck Swindon does such a great job discovering insights from the scriptures that make them come alive. He has a down to earth style that makes it seem like you’re reading letters from. a friend instead of a book from a world renowned author.
Chuck Swindon does such a great job discovering insights from the scriptures that make them come alive. He has a down to earth style that makes it seem like you’re reading letters from. a friend instead of a book from a world renowned author.
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