Grace (1918 photograph by Eric Enstrom) ********************** Come Lord Jesus, be our guest; and let these Thy gifts to us be blest. Amen. (Traditional Protestant) ——————————— Bless, O Lord, thy gifts to our use and us to thy service. Give us grateful hearts, our Father, for all thy mercies, and make us mindful of […]
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Dr. Bennet Omalu (1968- ) ———————– By John Stonestreet, January 8, 2016 at: http://www.breakpoint.org America’s favorite sport can be brutal. A Christian doctor’s quest to save football players’ lives is the subject of a moving new film. Thirteen years ago, Dr. Bennet Omalu, a pathologist working at the Alleghany County Coroner’s
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Adapted from The Word for Every Day, by Alvin Rogness, page 219, Augsburg Publishing House. The psalmist says, “A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday” (Psalm 90:4). God is not harried by the clock. He can wait. One would think that a God who designed the universe to function with
Author unknown The carpenter I hired to help me restore an old farmhouse had just finished a rough first day on the job. A flat tire made him lose an hour of work, his electric drill quit, and now his ancient pickup truck refused to start. While I drove him home,
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(…continued) God himself has promised to be in these words, inadequate and unpolished as they might be from me or any other preacher, or, as unwanted as they might sometimes be by you. In Isaiah 55:10-11, God says about his word: “As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do
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I was ordained thirty-six years ago today. The following is from a sermon I gave when my congregation celebrated my first 25 years in the ministry. One day when my son was about nine years old, he and several of the neighborhood kids were playing in our yard. I was also outside, working
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British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) ******************** “This lamentable phrase, ‘the pursuit of happiness,’ is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.” “When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most
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Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990), British journalist, joined the Roman Catholic Church in the 1970’s after doing a story on Mother Teresa and being inspired by her faith and life. ******************************************* “Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost rather eliminate happiness. The world would be the most ghastly place
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Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) was a British reporter in the U.S.S.R. in the 1930’s. Here he describes two episodes which provide contrasting insights into life after the Russian Revolution. Muggeridge had initially admired the revolution; then he saw the results of two decades of communist rule. The Communists promised hope to the nation, but instead
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There is much in the Bible that tells us what to do: be honest, be faithful, love and serve your neighbor, do not lie, do not cheat, do not steal, and so forth. One of the best known parts of the Bible is the Ten Commandments, that very important list of things that
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