Forever With Jesus

101) Why Does God Make Little Children Get Sick and Die?

     Don’t be surprised if you haven’t heard of the movie Ways to Live Forever which is opening this weekend.  While blockbuster movies from major movie companies may open in 3,000 theaters at one time, Ways to Live Forever is opening in only eight– so you may not need to bother looking for it at […]

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71) Body and Soul

From a sermon entitled “Life Eternal” by Ralph Sockman (1889-1970)      As I ponder Paul’s discussion of the body (in II Corinthians 4 & 5), it deepens my realization that personality does go on despite bodily changes.  We are told that a human body undergoes a complete renovation every seven years (by the ongoing

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70) Only in This Life (part two)

     (continued…)  How did the young couple with the child born blind respond to Pastor John’s letter?  They quit coming to church.  This reaction was not to the letter in particular, but to the God of whom the letter spoke.  The father said later that he still believed in God, and believed that God

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69) Only in This Life (part one)

      I will never forget February 13, 2005, the day our first grandchild was born.  Our daughter and son-in-law invited us to the hospital to await the birth of their daughter.  It seemed like a long wait, though it was probably no longer than usual.  Finally the door we were watching opened and

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66) Tired of Suffering

From the novel Jubilee (1966), by Margaret W. Alexander (1915-98); (Quoted in Conversations With God: Two Centuries of African-American Prayers, ed. by James M. Washington, pp. 211-212, HarperCollins).      Brother Ezekiel held the (two year old) child down close to her mother’s face and said soothingly, “It’s your mama, Vyry, say hello to you maw.”

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