Do You Toy with Sin?
“If we play around the viper’s hole–it no wonder that we are bitten!” An old proverb advises us not to play with sharp-edged tools, lest we cut our fingers. It is a sin to trifle with sin! If we must...
View ArticleSubtle Sin
Had I become so preoccupied with major sin from deep within that in the darkened night I lost sight of my need to deal for real with the more subtle sins? Does the subtle sin of worry still tell a...
View ArticleWhat are you doing?
Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing that you would not like God to hear. Write nothing that you would not like God to read. Go no place, where you would not like God to find...
View ArticleHow to Avoid Disaster
I do a lot of long distance driving and there are many things I have learned to keep me alert. It is important for me to realize just how quickly things can go horrifically wrong if I take my eyes off...
View ArticleFREE recovery magazine “The Gabriel”
The latest issue of CIR’s FREE recovery magazine “The Gabriel” is now available for Download You are encouraged to download this, print it out or put on a diskette and share it with your loved ones,...
View ArticleHis Compassions are New Every Morning
It is because of the Lord’s mercy and loving-kindness that we are not consumed, because His [tender] compassions fail not. Lamentations 3:24 AMP Each Christian may find in his own case, some peculiar...
View ArticleHave You Given up?
A renowned international speaker said, “Yvonne, it took me 20 years to become an overnight success.” I think of those words often and use them to encourage other speakers and myself. Have you given up...
View ArticleThe Power of “Little” Habits
Those habits which seem too weak to be felt–soon become too strong to be broken! They entwine themselves around the soul, and the coil proves fatal…. A painter once wanted a picture of innocence–and...
View ArticleThe day after Easter
The day after Easter brings us a simple word-of-the-week… AND Most of us read some version of this passage over the weekend. “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who...
View ArticleCatch the Little Foxes
Catch the little foxes that ruin the vineyards; for our vines have tender grapes. Song of Songs 2:15 Resolve at once, by God’s help, to break off every known sin, however small. Look within, each one...
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