   Each New Year’s Day, as does each birthday, brings with it the unsettling reminder that another year is gone.  I would guess that everyone (after a certain age, anyway) thinks about that at least a little bit.  We get only so many years here, and these annual reminders seem to come around faster […]
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Isaiah 57:18-19 — “I have seen their ways, but I will heal them,” (says the Lord). “I will guide them and restore comfort to Israel’s mourners, creating praise on their lips. Peace, peace, (Shalom, Shalom) to those far and near,” says the Lord. “I will heal them.” Shalom is the Hebrew word for ‘peace’ (and much
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     Henry Francis Lyte was born in Scotland in 1793.  His father moved the family to Ireland; and then he abandoned them.  When Henry was nine, his mother died, leaving him an orphan.  The superintendent at the school he was attending invited Henry into his home and made him a part of his family.
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    Ed was a Lutheran missionary to the African nation of Cameroon.  His area of expertise was agriculture and he went to the mission field to teach people how to farm more effectively.  He had hoped that his love and concern for the people he worked with could bear witness to the love of Jesus Christ
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Above: The Road to Emmaus, 1877, Robert Zund, Swiss painter, (1826-1909) ———- Â Â Â Luke 24 tells the story of Jesus joining two men walking on the road to Emmaus, a little town about seven miles from Jerusalem. Â It was the afternoon of the day Jesus rose from the dead. Â These men had known Jesus,
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An article by Joel Belz in World magazine, July 18, 2009 (with slight editing). Note that this article was written sixteen years ago, so the dollar amounts have increased significantly; but the issue is the same, the debate has continued, and we are all sixteen years closer to the time that each of us may
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 From The Strong-willed Child, by Dr. James Dobson, 1978, pages 181-182.    My daughter has a pet hamster (uncreatively named ‘Hammy’) who has a passion for freedom.  He spends a portion of every night gnawing on the metal bars of his cage and forcing his head through the trap door.  Recently I sat watching
3043) Longing to Be Free Read More »
Above photo:Â C. S. Lewis (left) with Paddy Moore (right) in World War I, 1917. C. S. Lewis wrote this letter after the aged Mrs. Moore (who he calls his ‘mother’) went to live in a nursing home. Â Mrs. Moore was the mother of Edward (Paddy) Moore, a friend of Lewis’s who was killed in
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    (…continued)  Nothing can transform our whole way of thinking about everything more than the resurrection of Jesus, where death was turned into life.  Death, that inevitable and final obliteration, was transformed from the end of everything into a new beginning.  “Set your hearts on things above,” says Paul, and then, “When Christ, who is
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From A Touch of His Love, by Al Rogness,  pages 44-5 ******************************    “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says the Lord.  Isn’t that fortunate?  And isn’t it fortunate that God sometimes annuls our ways, blocks us from doing something our way, and directs us into His way?  Â
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