Above:Â Mohandis Gandhi (1869-1948) as a young lawyer in South Africa ******************************* Â Â Â The first petition of the Lord’s Prayer (after the introduction) is perhaps the most difficult to understand. Â We know what the other petitions mean when they ask for things like daily bread or forgiveness or help in times of temptation. Â These […]
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My good friend Chris Brekke does a thrice-weekly on-line meditation, similar to these EmailMeditations. His blog is called “Seasoned Hope” and can be seen at: https://pcbrek2020.wordpress.com/ . Today’s meditation is a repost of his March 2 posting. Thanks, Chris! —————————————–    Hypothetically, in some dark reality, if you were a villain out to ruin
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    During the American Revolution a man in civilian clothes rode past a group of soldiers repairing a small defensive barrier. Their leader was shouting instructions, but making no attempt to help them. The man on the horse asked the man shouting orders why he was not helping his men. He retorted with
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By Millard Fuller (1935-2009), founder of Habitat for Humanity, in Building Materials for Life, page 91-93. —————————–    Recently, a dear friend had unexpected surgery. During the time of convalescence, Linda and I sent her a small bouquet of roses. She called when the roses arrived, exclaiming that the roses were precisely the color
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Seattle Seahawks Linebacker Derick Hall was born at 23 weeks. He had no heartbeat and doctors gave him a one percent chance of survival. But his mom refused to take him off life support. Now he is a Super Bowl champion. After the victory, Derick Hall reflected on the moment using a word that has
Abraham Lincoln was born 217 years ago today. Here are some of his words. **************************** In regard to this great book (the Bible), I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to men.  All the good the Savior gave to the world is communicated through this book.  But for it
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When I was in seminary fifty years ago, one of my professors lamented the number of best-selling books that were selling nothing more than plain old common sense. He could not understand why people had to pay money for knowledge that came naturally to their far less educated grandparents. But then he said, “Perhaps we
    (…continued) That might sound harsh and insensitive to you. You might be the one always doing more than your share, always putting in the extra time, always being taking advantage of, and always muttering under your breath “Well, someone has to do it; and if I don’t take care of it, it will never
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   Ken finally talked his wife Sue into going to a baseball game with him. He was a baseball fanatic; she thought the whole thing was stupid and boring. For nine innings, Ken observed every detail of the game, while Sue scrolled through Facebook on her phone and looked up only occasionally. Finally, it
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Above: The Talents, 1908 by artist Eugène Burnand (1850-1921). ————————————- Matthew 25:14-30:    (Jesus said), “It will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them. To one he gave five bags of gold (‘talents’ in older translations), to another two bags, and to another
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