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1. Keep Looking Up

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... up here to me, and keep climbing." Rung by rung, he ... higher: "Come on now, keep looking up, keep coming." At last, the ... saying, "Look up to me; keep looking up, and you'll ... up, and take heart, and keep climbing.

2. The Stop That Keeps Us Going

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"This is the stop that keeps you going." This sign may ... food, if we are to keep them going. Also a similar ... the stop that helps to keep you going! And may you ... vitality of spirit that will keep you victoriously going on, whatever ...

3. God Stopped Keeping Score

Matthew 18:21-35

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William J. Carl, III

... out that God had stopped keeping score. If God has stopped ... keeping score on us, why are ... we still keeping score on those around us ...

4. Keep on Asking. Keep on Trusting.

Matthew 15:21-28

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King Duncan

... trusting....and neither should we. Keep on asking. Keep on trusting.

5. Keeping God Alive in Our Hearts

Luke 11:1-13

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... asks. The father responds: To keep God alive in my heart ... is the way that we keep God alive in our hearts ...

6. Keep That Light in Your Eyes

John 20:1-18

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David Martin

... do.' Then said the Evangelist, 'Keep that light in your eye ... is the message of Easter. Keep that light in your eye ...

7. I'll Keep Curling the Radishes

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Jeanette Clift George

... me, "Just remember this. You keep telling people about Jesus, and ... I'll keep curling the radishes." The rain ...

8. Travel Light and Keep Moving

Mark 6:1-13

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Leonard Sweet

... is to travel lightly and keep moving. Nowhere do we see ... stick a personal goad to keep them moving when the terrain ...

9. A Big Man Is a Man Who Keeps His Soul

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Maxie Dunnam

... man is a man who keeps his soul.” Jen was right ... man is a man who keeps his soul. Forces all around ...

10. To Keep the World from Changing Me

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Maxie Dunnam

... world. I do it to keep the world from changing me ... world. I do it to keep the world from changing me ...

11. Keeping Our Colors True

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Staff

... , he replied, "To help me keep my colors true. In course ...

12. Keeping Promises

Matthew 21:23-32

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... . For some people, making and KEEPING promises seems to be a ...

13. Keeping Expectations Low

John 1:6-8, 19-28

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations."

14. Keep Your Head Right

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Stephen Brown

... thing about diving was to keep his head in the proper ...

15. Why Do You Keep Crying Aloud?

Mark 9:2-9

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Scott F. K. Kober

... said, "Sir, why do you keep crying aloud like this every ...

16. They Keep Getting Worse and Worse

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

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... they all say, but they keep getting worse and worse."

17. Keep at It

Luke 5:1-11

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William G. Carter

... to play professional football. But keep at it, for you never ...

18. Keeping the Wheels Turning

John 21:1-19

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John E. Harnish

... to lubricate our equipment and keep the wheels turning." Brother Stan ...

19. Keeping Hope Alive

Matthew 24:36-44

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... knew that in order to keep the flicker of hope alive ...

20. Repent and Keep the Dream Alive!

Matthew 3:1-12

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Joel D. Kline

... hope and life. And to keep that dream alive, the Baptist ...

21. Keep Climbing

John 17:1-11

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... -deep snow. The caption reads: "Keep Climbing Upwards! You may never ...

22. Keep an Inventory of Good

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Staff

... in its true perspective and keep my temper under control. There ...

23. Keep the Pressure Out

Acts 2:38; Mt 28:19-20

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Brett Blair

... steel several inches thick, which keeps the water out but also ...

24. When You Keep Digging

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Roger Thompson

... summer heat, they tried to keep him comfortable. He was growing ...

25. Keep Your Lips from Slips

James 3:1-12

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William Norris

William Norris, the American journalist who specialized in simple rhymes that packed a wallop once wrote: If your lips would keep from slips, Five things observe with care: To whom you speak; of whom you speak; And how, and when, and where.

26. Be Sure of Your Course and Keep on Going

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Editor James S. Hewett

... sure of your course, just keep on going!

27. Keep Your Antenna Up

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Maxie Dunnam

... loved ones are desperately sending. Keep your radio on and your ...

28. Keeping Alert

Luke 9:28-36

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John A. Stroman

In Luke's account, Jesus prayed but the disciples slept. They had fallen asleep. With their heads in the clouds, they drifted off into an unconscious state. Remember the story of Rip Van Winkle? He fell asleep one day in a quiet spot on the banks of the Hudson River and he didn't wake up for twenty years. When he went to sleep, the sign above his favorite tavern read: "King George III, King of England." He was a subject of the British crown. When he woke up, King George was replaced by George Washington ...

29. Keeping on Course

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In the old days of ocean sailing, a small boy was traveling on shipboard with his father. About once a day the boy saw the captain stand on deck with sextant in hand, and, as they used to say, "shoot the stars." The boy said to his father, "Daddy, what is the captain doing?" His father replied, "The captain is taking our bearings, seeing where we are, finding out if we are going in the right direction." As a matter of fact, my dear friends, it is something of this kind that each of us is doing as we are in ...

30. Keep Doing Your Job

Luke 17:1-10

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By 1989, baseball player Nolan Ryan reached an incredible 5,000 strike outs, and all those no hitters. Ryan is a phenomenal baseball player. In his rookie year, 18 years earlier, Gil Hodges was the manager of the Mets, and was impatient with Ryan. Although Ryan could consistently throw the ball over ninety miles an hour, most of the time it didn't go over the plate. He was walking everybody, hitting a lot of people, too. Hodges told Ryan at the beginning of a particular game that he was to pitch better in ...

31. Keeping Our Perspective and Priorities Straight

Luke 6:17-26

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Brett Blair

Leith Anderson, a pastor, shared an experience: As a boy, he grew up outside of New York City and was an avid fan of the old Brooklyn Dodgers. One day his father took him to a World Series game between the Dodgers and the Yankees. He was so excited, and he just knew the Dodgers would trounce the Yankees. Unfortunately, the Dodgers never got on base, and his excitement was shattered. Years later he was engrossed in a conversation with a man who was a walking sports almanac. Leith told him about the first ...

32. Keeping the Christian Faith

Matthew 6:25-34

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Michael B. Brown

A French prince in the Middle Ages was asked if he were faithful to his wife. He answered: "Yes ...frequently." The line is humorous but the point of the story is anything but. Sometimes in life it is all too difficult to find someone to trust, someone to believe in. Even spouses, parents and dearest of friends can let us down. But the Christian faith teaches that when all the others have come and gone, God remains constant -- "the same yesterday, today and forever." God is always in our corner, always as ...

33. The Moon Keeps Shining

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

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The story is told of a judge who had been frequently ridiculed by a conceited lawyer. When asked by a friend why he didn't rebuke his assailant, he replied, "In our town lives a widow who has a dog. And whenever the moon shines, it goes outside and barks all night." Having said that, the magistrate shifted the conversation to another subject. Finally someone asked, "But Judge, what about the dog and the moon?" "Oh," he replied, "the moon went on shining - that's all."

34. Service Keeps Us Alive

Mark 10:35-45

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Unamuno, the Spanish philosopher, tells about the Roman aqueduct at Segovia, in his native Spain. It was built in 109 A.D. For eighteen hundred years, it carried cool water from the mountains to the hot and thirsty city. Nearly sixty generations of men drank from its flow. Then came another generation, a recent one, who said, "This aqueduct is so great a marvel that it ought to be preserved for our children, as a museum piece. We shall relieve it of its centuries-long labor." They did; they laid modern ...

35. Keeping Perspective

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Staff

The following illustration, which appears to have it's origins in the mid 90's, is an urban legend and though this purports to be an "actual" event, it is not. In fact the legend is so ubiquitous that even Wikipedia covered it's veracity. No version of this story has ever been corroborated. The best use of this legend would be to introduce it as such. Here is the common version. “This is the transcript of an ACTUAL radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of ...

36. Keeping It Fresh

Matthew 13:31-35, Matthew 9:14-17

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Brian Stoffregen

Usually the orthodox rabbis of Europe boasted distinguished rabbinical genealogies, but Rabbi Yechiel of Ostrowce was an exception. He was the son of a simple baker and he inherited some of the forthright qualities of a man of the people. Once, when a number of rabbis had gathered at some festivity, each began to boast of his eminent rabbinical ancestors. When Rabbi Yechiel's turn came, he replied gravely, "In my family, I'm the first eminent ancestor. His colleagues were shocked by this piece of impudence ...

37. Promises You Can Keep

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A number of years ago the Douglas Aircraft company was competing with Boeing to sell Eastern Airlines its first big jets. War hero Eddie Rickenbacker, the head of Eastern Airlines, reportedly told Donald Douglas that the specifications and claims made by Douglas's company for the DC-8 were close to Boeing's on everything except noise suppression. Rickenbacker then gave Douglas one last chance to out-promise Boeing on this feature. After consulting with his engineers, Douglas reported that he didn't feel he ...

38. Keep You Mouth Shut

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Staff

Kondraty Ryleyev was sentenced to be hanged for his part in an unsuccessful uprising against the Russian czar Nicholas I in December 1825. But the rope broke and Ryleyev, bruised and battered, fell to the ground, got up, and said, "In Russia they do not know how to do anything properly, not even how to make a rope." An accident of this sort usually resulted in a pardon, so a messenger was sent to the czar to know his pleasure. Nicholas asked, "What did he say?" "Sire, he said that in Russia they do not ...

39. Keep Up the Pace

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Grant Lovejoy

A recent television documentary pointed out that the cheetah survives on the African plains by running down its prey. The big cat can sprint seventy miles per hour. But the cheetah cannot sustain that pace for long. Within its long, sleek body is a disproportionately small heart, which causes the cheetah to tire quickly. Unless the cheetah catches its prey in the first flurry, it must abandon the chase. Sometimes Christians seem to have the cheetah's approach to ministry. We speed into projects with great ...

40. Keep Digging

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Robert V. Ozment

One day, in the midst of writing a book, Dr. A.J. Cronin convinced himself that he was a failure. He told himself that his efforts were wasted, that even the thought that he could write anything worth reading was sheer futility. He took his manuscript and cast it into a trash barrel. Later, while walking, he came upon Angus, an old farmer who approved of Cronin’s work as an author. Angus was digging in a bog, trying to rescue it from the swamp. When Cronin told him that he had given up the idea of writing ...

41. Gifts That Keep Giving

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Charles Swindoll

Some gifts you can give this Christmas are beyond monetary value: Mend a quarrel, dismiss suspicion, tell someone, "I love you." Give something away anonymously. Forgive someone who has treated you wrong. Turn away wrath with a soft answer. Visit someone in a nursing home. Apologize if you were wrong. Be especially kind to someone with whom you work. Give as God gave to you in Christ, without obligation, or announcement, or reservation, or hypocrisy.

42. Keep the Goal In Sight

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Maxie Dunnam

Do you remember Florence Chadwick? She tried to swim the English Channel some years ago and she almost made it. In fact, she asked to be taken out of the water just a few hundred yards from the shore she was trying to reach. The people who had watched her courageous attempts asked her, “Why couldn’t you make it? You had swum for miles. Why didn’t you make those last few yards?” She answered, “I could have made it but a fog bank moved in and I couldn’t see the shore. If I could have seen the shore, I would ...

43. Staying in Line

Matthew 22:34-40

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

At the entrance to the harbor at the Isle of Man there are two lights. One would think that the two signals would confuse the pilot. But the fact is, he has to keep them in line; as long as he keeps them in line, his ship is safe. It is the same with these commands of Jesus: the love of God, love others, and love of self. When we keep them in line, we remain safe and well in the channel of the Christian life.

44. If I Should Die Before I Wake

Lk 11:1-13; 12:22-34; Mt 6:5-15

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Brett Blair

... my soul to Christ to keep. Four corners to my bed ... for service. We are to keep our lamps burning for we ...

45. In Success is the Seed of Failure

Matt 4:1-11; Mark 1:9-13; Luke 4:1-13

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J. Ellsworth Kalas

... the humility that makes us keep on learning.

46. One Task

Luke 9:51-62

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Ernest Munachi Ezeogu

... one month and told to keep the light burning every night ... given only one task: to keep the light burning. Every other ...

47. Not Raising Hogs

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Brett Blair

... I approach this endeavor in keeping with all government policies. As ... "NOT RAISING HOGS' program is keeping an accurate inventory of how ...

48. How Does a Father Do It?

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James Dobson

... in the ways listed below. Keep it simple. It is doesn ... some slack for your kids. Keep important things in focus: family ...

49. One Pastor's Answer to What He Does

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Editor James S. Hewett

... finally death. He tries to keep people focused on eternity as ... he spends considerable time in keeping people out of each other ...

50. What is Love?

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

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John R. Steward

... enough nutrition in it to keep me alive. The soup had ...

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1. Keep Looking Up

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2. The Stop That Keeps Us Going

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3. God Stopped Keeping Score

Matthew 18:21-35

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William J. Carl, III

... out that God had stopped keeping score. If God has stopped ... keeping score on us, why are ... we still keeping score on those around us ...

4. Keep on Asking. Keep on Trusting.

Matthew 15:21-28

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King Duncan

... trusting....and neither should we. Keep on asking. Keep on trusting.

5. Keeping God Alive in Our Hearts

Luke 11:1-13

Illustration

... asks. The father responds: To keep God alive in my heart ... is the way that we keep God alive in our hearts ...

6. Keep That Light in Your Eyes

John 20:1-18

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David Martin

... do.' Then said the Evangelist, 'Keep that light in your eye ... is the message of Easter. Keep that light in your eye ...

7. I'll Keep Curling the Radishes

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Jeanette Clift George

... me, "Just remember this. You keep telling people about Jesus, and ... I'll keep curling the radishes." The rain ...

8. Travel Light and Keep Moving

Mark 6:1-13

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Leonard Sweet

... is to travel lightly and keep moving. Nowhere do we see ... stick a personal goad to keep them moving when the terrain ...

9. A Big Man Is a Man Who Keeps His Soul

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Maxie Dunnam

... man is a man who keeps his soul.” Jen was right ... man is a man who keeps his soul. Forces all around ...

10. To Keep the World from Changing Me

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Maxie Dunnam

... world. I do it to keep the world from changing me ... world. I do it to keep the world from changing me ...

11. Keeping Our Colors True

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Staff

... , he replied, "To help me keep my colors true. In course ...

12. Keeping Promises

Matthew 21:23-32

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... . For some people, making and KEEPING promises seems to be a ...

13. Keeping Expectations Low

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Illustration

Billy D. Strayhorn

... lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations."

14. Keep Your Head Right

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Stephen Brown

... thing about diving was to keep his head in the proper ...

15. Why Do You Keep Crying Aloud?

Mark 9:2-9

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Scott F. K. Kober

... said, "Sir, why do you keep crying aloud like this every ...

16. They Keep Getting Worse and Worse

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

Illustration

... they all say, but they keep getting worse and worse."

17. Keep at It

Luke 5:1-11

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William G. Carter

... to play professional football. But keep at it, for you never ...

18. Keeping the Wheels Turning

John 21:1-19

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John E. Harnish

... to lubricate our equipment and keep the wheels turning." Brother Stan ...

19. Keeping Hope Alive

Matthew 24:36-44

Illustration

... knew that in order to keep the flicker of hope alive ...

20. Repent and Keep the Dream Alive!

Matthew 3:1-12

Illustration

Joel D. Kline

... hope and life. And to keep that dream alive, the Baptist ...

21. Keep Climbing

John 17:1-11

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... -deep snow. The caption reads: "Keep Climbing Upwards! You may never ...

22. Keep an Inventory of Good

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Staff

... in its true perspective and keep my temper under control. There ...

23. Keep the Pressure Out

Acts 2:38; Mt 28:19-20

Illustration

Brett Blair

... steel several inches thick, which keeps the water out but also ...

24. When You Keep Digging

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Roger Thompson

... summer heat, they tried to keep him comfortable. He was growing ...

25. Keep Your Lips from Slips

James 3:1-12

Illustration

William Norris

26. Be Sure of Your Course and Keep on Going

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... sure of your course, just keep on going!

27. Keep Your Antenna Up

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Maxie Dunnam

... loved ones are desperately sending. Keep your radio on and your ...

28. Keeping Alert

Luke 9:28-36

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John A. Stroman

29. Keeping on Course

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30. Keep Doing Your Job

Luke 17:1-10

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31. Keeping Our Perspective and Priorities Straight

Luke 6:17-26

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Brett Blair

32. Keeping the Christian Faith

Matthew 6:25-34

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Michael B. Brown

33. The Moon Keeps Shining

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

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34. Service Keeps Us Alive

Mark 10:35-45

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35. Keeping Perspective

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Staff

36. Keeping It Fresh

Matthew 13:31-35, Matthew 9:14-17

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Brian Stoffregen

37. Promises You Can Keep

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Staff

38. Keep You Mouth Shut

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Staff

39. Keep Up the Pace

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Grant Lovejoy

40. Keep Digging

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Robert V. Ozment

41. Gifts That Keep Giving

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Charles Swindoll

42. Keep the Goal In Sight

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

43. Staying in Line

Matthew 22:34-40

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

44. If I Should Die Before I Wake

Lk 11:1-13; 12:22-34; Mt 6:5-15

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Brett Blair

... my soul to Christ to keep. Four corners to my bed ... for service. We are to keep our lamps burning for we ...

45. In Success is the Seed of Failure

Matt 4:1-11; Mark 1:9-13; Luke 4:1-13

Illustration

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... the humility that makes us keep on learning.

46. One Task

Luke 9:51-62

Illustration

Ernest Munachi Ezeogu

... one month and told to keep the light burning every night ... given only one task: to keep the light burning. Every other ...

47. Not Raising Hogs

Illustration

Brett Blair

... I approach this endeavor in keeping with all government policies. As ... "NOT RAISING HOGS' program is keeping an accurate inventory of how ...

48. How Does a Father Do It?

Illustration

James Dobson

... in the ways listed below. Keep it simple. It is doesn ... some slack for your kids. Keep important things in focus: family ...

49. One Pastor's Answer to What He Does

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... finally death. He tries to keep people focused on eternity as ... he spends considerable time in keeping people out of each other ...

50. What is Love?

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

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John R. Steward

... enough nutrition in it to keep me alive. The soup had ...

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