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UCB Word For Today

With daily readings based on Scripture, articles, and things to pray about, the UCB Word For Today is designed to help you get into the habit of spending time with God every day.

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1:48

Don’t be double minded

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/09/19

Don’t be double minded and attempt to think in two different ways at the same time. For example, we come to church to get ‘the wisdom that is from above’ (James 3:17 KJV), then leave church and get the wisdom from below and try to combine them. But it doesn’t work. You cannot mix unleaded fuel and diesel fuel. The moment you do, you have cancelled the unleaded because of the diesel – merely looking like fuel doesn’t mean it will help you. As Christians, we attend church on Sunday to get unleaded,

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1:54

Acknowledge your mistakes and shortcomings

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/09/18

We all make mistakes, misjudge issues, and mess up at some point. We’re all human. The truth is that mistakes are one of the major ways in which we learn and get wiser. But because of our fear of being criticised or losing face, we often attempt to hide our mistakes. The only real calamity about mistakes is if you don’t learn something from them. Failing to admit a mistake blocks the path to growth. Listen to the words of the Lord when He admonished the Israelites to learn from their mistakes:

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2:04

Show grace under fire

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/09/17

Author Chuck Swindoll says that when he was a young man, he couldn’t understand how two people who loved the Lord and believed the Bible could come to different conclusions: ‘In my two-by-four thinking I was convinced that all godly minds held identical conclusions…I soon discovered that there weren’t only various opinions, but God had the audacity to bless those who disagreed with me…He isn’t nearly so narrow minded as many of His people…God’s much easier to live with…tolerant…full of more grace

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1:57

Get on the bus!

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/09/16

Are you in ‘the school of hard knocks’ today? Are you wondering, ‘Why am I going through this?’ Because God is more interested in your character than your comfort! Patsy Clairmont writes: ‘Jason, our youngest, has two goals in life. One is to have fun, and the other is to rest. And he does both quite well. So I shouldn’t have been surprised by what happened when I sent him to school one fall day. As Jason headed off for the bus, I busied myself, preparing for a full day. The knock on the door was a

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2:07

The Bible helps us to overcome temptation (5)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/09/15

When we give in to temptation, it’s easy to blame other people and our environment. ‘Women dress too provocatively today…Men are too sexually aggressive…The media is too explicit.’ These statements may be true, but they don’t help us to overcome the tempter’s tactics. Humorist Will Rogers is attributed with saying, ‘Things aren’t what they used to be, and probably never were!’ Rose-coloured glasses can be deceptive when it comes to looking back. Satan, our enemy, hasn’t altered his tactics. They

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2:03

The Bible helps us to overcome temptation (4)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/09/14

Lust is as natural to us as breathing. Our flesh nature lives to fulfil its selfish desires. It never gets enough or stops wanting more. Alternatively, our new nature craves more of what satisfies the Holy Spirit who lives in our redeemed spirit. We’re more familiar with the appeal of the flesh because we have invested more time and energy in nurturing it. We understand its urgency, its appeal, its control, and its compelling tug. But as we invest equal time and energy in what pleases the Holy

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1:59

The Bible helps us to overcome temptation (3)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/09/13

According to Jesus, lust is preceded by temptation and can lead to sin (see Matthew 5:27-28). But the good news about dealing with temptation is that you’re not alone. God’s Word tells us, ‘No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it’ (v. 13 NKJV). In light of this Scripture, simply saying ‘I couldn’t help

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1:59

The Bible helps us to overcome temptation (2)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/09/12

The patriarch Job said, ‘I made a covenant with my eyes not to look with lust at a young woman’ (Job 31:1 NLT). Job couldn’t control his environment and its temptations any more than we can. Still, we can learn a valuable lesson from Job’s words. A covenant is a promise made in good faith with the intention of keeping it. It’s a step of faith you commit to before you know what circumstances you will encounter, not unlike a marriage covenant. The Bible tells us, ‘The just shall live by faith’ (Romans

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2:07

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UCB Word For Today ·

2025/09/11

It seems like no matter where you look nowadays, there are temptations. Our young people are bombarded by imagery that confuses, seduces, and erodes standards of decency and self-control. A wise and devoted eighty-year-old pastor was asked at what age sexual temptation was no longer an issue. Without hesitation, he replied, ‘It must be sometime after eighty!’ The truth is, if you’re breathing – you’re vulnerable! And it doesn’t end there. Research shows that a growing number of women are becoming

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1:54

Rest and relaxation are essential

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/09/10

God instructed the observance of the Sabbath day with good reason: rest from our labours. Now if God felt He should rest after six days of creative activity, how much more should we? Jesus was a big advocate of taking time off. Once, He sent His disciples on an evangelistic journey. When they returned thrilled about all the wonderful miracles that had happened, you would imagine that He would urge them to maintain the momentum. He didn’t. ‘Then Jesus said, “Let’s go off by ourselves to a quiet place

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1:56

Don’t ‘assume’ your children are okay

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/09/09

The Bible says: ‘Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Passover festival. When Jesus was twelve years old, they attended the festival as usual. After the celebration was over, they started home to Nazareth, but Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents didn’t miss him at first, because they assumed he was among the other travellers. But when he didn’t show up that evening, they started looking for him’ (vv. 41-44 NLT). This story has a happy ending because Jesus’ parents found Him

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1:53

The power of encouragement

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/09/08

Everybody needs encouragement. None of us achieves anything without help. The great achievers in history became all that they were because of the people in their lives. We've seen The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings. But did you know that their authors, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, were professors at Oxford University and maintained a close friendship? Every week they'd meet to eat, talk about their fiction-writing endeavours and read passages of their yet unpublished works. It was

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2:00

The importance of good thinking (2)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/09/07

If you want to change your life, you must change how you think and what you think about. When you think about the wrong things, your life goes wrong. But when you think about the right things, your life goes right. 1) Changing your thinking isn’t easy. It’s not automatic and doesn’t happen on its own. Good ideas seldom go out and bump into someone. If you want to discover a good idea, you have to look for it. If you want to improve your thinking, you need to work at it – and when you become a better

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2:04

The importance of good thinking (1)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/09/06

Good thinkers are constantly in demand. Why? Because they solve problems, always have ideas that can build an organisation, and are hopeful for a better future. And good thinkers seldom find themselves under the control of bad thinkers. Adolf Hitler once boasted, ‘What luck for rulers that men do not think.’ Those who build the technique of good thinking can manage themselves – even when under an unfair ruler or in other challenging circumstances. In summary, good thinkers are successful. Dr John

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2:01

Always do what’s right

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/09/05

When you wilfully do wrong, you experience anxiety, stress, and insecurity. ‘“There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked”’ (Isaiah 48:22 NKJV). Whenever you choose a plan of action incompatible with what you believe to be right, you forfeit your peace of mind. For instance, a person may accept a job or duty that forces them to do something against their spiritual convictions, something that violates their conscience. Numerous people have faced the predicament of compromising their values so

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2:02

Help for your marriage

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/09/04

The following definition of love and marriage is a time-tested formula that would be hard to improve on: ‘Love is friendship that has caught fire. It’s quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing, and forgiving. It’s loyalty through good times and bad. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weakness. Love is content with the present, hopes for the future, and refuses to brood over the past. It’s the day in and day out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises,

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2:05

The Word at work

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/09/03

Talking about the power behind the Reformation, Martin Luther said, ‘I simply taught, preached, wrote God’s Word; otherwise I did nothing. And then, while I slept…the Word so greatly weakened [the erroneous system] that never a prince or emperor did such damage to it. I did nothing. The Word did it all.’ Later, when Luther was asked about his preaching philosophy, he added, ‘I just threw the Bible into the congregation and the Word did the work!’ As human beings, we accomplish a lot with our words

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2:08

You have come too far to give up now!

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/09/02

V. Raymond Edman said, ‘To be torn…by external forces, and still…preserve one’s inward integrity, is to know the discipline that endures.’ So when you’re faced with opposition, do you automatically throw in the towel, or like Moses, do you persevere? Chuck Swindoll characterises Moses as a man ‘who hung tough, who refused to give in or give up, who decided that no amount of odds against him would cause him to surrender…He possessed the disciplines of durability. He endured the contempt of

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1:53

Overcoming loneliness

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/09/01

You don’t have to be alone to be lonely. Some of us are married to emotionally unavailable spouses. Some of us put up with verbal and emotional abuse because we prefer anybody’s company to our own. Some of the loneliest people you will meet are in crowded bars at ‘happy’ hour. They mingle, but they don’t connect. What is the answer? 1) Get involved in a cause greater than self-interest. After the Prodigal Son had spent his last penny partying with so-called friends, they forsook him, and he ended up

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1:51

The challenge of developing leaders (3)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/08/31

A leadership expert who conducted a poll to find out how people came to be leaders writes: ‘I asked if they became leaders because a) they were given a position; b) there was a crisis in the organisation; or c) they had been mentored. More than 80 per cent indicated that they were leaders because someone had mentored them in leadership – had taken them through the process…As leaders, if we feel any uncertainty or insecurity about the leadership development process, it is usually not related to the

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