By Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (1804-1864); based on a paragraph from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin When Benjamin Franklin was a boy he was very fond of fishing; and many of his leisure hours were spent on the margin of the mill pond catching flounders, perch, and eels that came up thither with […]
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The Lincoln Inaugural Bible, 1861 ——- Today Donald Trump will take the oath of office as the 45th President of the United States. He has chosen to use for the oath the Bible that Abraham Lincoln used in his first inauguration 156 years ago. The nation was then, as it is now, very divided. In
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From Your New Money Mindset, by Brad Hewitt and James Moline, 2015, Tyndale House Publishers. My Grandpa Colby was a young teen when he was summoned to a neighbor’s farm to help milk a less-than-cooperative cow. Apparently the farmer was off on a drinking binge and had abandoned the cow for days. She
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By Daniel Ritchie, posted January 16, 2017 at: http://www.desiringgod.org Ritchie is the student pastor at Lake Norman Baptist Church in Huntersville, North Carolina. He is a husband and father of two. ——————————— I was born without arms. That is the best way to summarize my story. I stepped into suffering at
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(…continued) I realized that the key is in seeing our desires on two levels. There are day to day desires and needs, and there are eternal desires and needs. There are many concerns on the surface of life; and those are important and need to be tended to. But there are
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From my sermon on January 15, 2017 ————— John 1:29, 32-38 — The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!… Then John gave this testimony: “I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain
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By Fred Craddock, Craddock Stories, pages 126-127 (adapted). —————- Up near where I live, at Fannin County Hospital, ministers around take turns being chaplain for the week. I took my turn, and the week I was on watch, there was a baby born. Not many are born in that small, thirty-bed hospital. But
1375) “Do You Think She’ll Remember?” Read More »
————————– LUKE 18:15-17: People were also bringing babies to Jesus for him to place his hands on them. When the disciples saw this, they rebuked them. But Jesus called the children to him and said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as
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You don’t have to be an expert in English history to be familiar with the main accomplishment of a certain King James. You probably have a book whose production was authorized by this King– the King James Version of the Bible, first published in 1611. This may not be the version you read
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“I Went From Fighting in a Cage to Living in a Hut” By Justin Wren/ December 30, 2016; Christianity Today magazine. Wren is the author of Fight for the Forgotten: How a Mixed Martial Artist Stopped Fighting for Himself and Started Fighting for Others (Howard Books) ————— (…continued) After Jesus helped me overcome
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