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This Memorial Day, we reflect on sacrifice — and the many forms it takes. From the battlefield to the mission field, sacrifice changes the world. And today we especially honor those who gave everything for our freedom.

Real Virtue

“When God is removed from the moral equation, virtue becomes shallow because it has no transcendent purpose. There’s no ultimate ‘why.’ Justice becomes selective. Compassion becomes conditional. Truth becomes negotiable. And ironically, the loudest moral voices often end up being the most brittle—quick to shame, slow to forgive, and terrified of dissent.

The church has made its own mistakes here, no question. But the answer isn’t to abandon biblical morality—it’s to return to it with humility and courage. Our credibility won’t be restored by sounding more like the culture, but by living differently from it.

Real virtue isn’t announced. It’s embodied. And without God at the center, all the moral noise in the world is just that—noise. Empty. Echoing.”

—Phil Cooke

To read the rest of this week's "In It Minute", click here: https://www.servantheart.com/real-virtue/

Looking Back

“After we die we’ll forever be learning about and experiencing God’s grace toward us. We’ll likely look back at our lives in this fallen world and see the riches of God’s grace and kindness to us, though our hardships may have seemed anything but grace-filled and kind.

This will be the power of retrospect—seeing afterward that all God’s promises were true all along. May God give us his grace not to wait until we die to discover this, but to believe his Word here and now.”

—Randy Alcorn in “Beautiful and Scandalous”

To read the rest of this week's "In It Minute", click here: https://www.servantheart.com/looking-back/