 By Caryn Rivadeneira, in Christianity Today, October 2014, pages 56-58 (edited). She is the author Broke: What Financial Desperation Revealed About God’s Abundance (InterVarsity Press). ————–    It had been more than a year since I had seen her.  We’d had our share of good conversations when our kids had attended Christian school together, […]
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      (…meditation on John 6, continued)  Yet, Jesus is critical of this desire.  He rebukes the people, and although his criticism is gentle enough, he does make it clear that he has come for more important things than to hand out free lunches.  In verse 26 Jesus said to the crowd, “I tell you
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John 6:1-13: Â Â Â Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee, and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the signs he had performed by healing the sick. Â Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples. Â The Jewish Passover
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Painting above:Â Winslow Homer (1836-1910) The Veteran in a New Field (1865) ******************************* From The Book of Virtues, by William Bennett, 1993, pages 774-5. Our understanding of God’s creation is imperfect, so our faith must fill in the gaps, as this old Jewish folktale reminds us. Â Â Â Once there were two young brothers who
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   Many people have asked me if I think we are living in the end times.  After all, they say, the Bible talks about famine and war and earthquakes, and we certainly have all of that these days.  Sometimes they add, “There is always so much bad news– I don’t think it can get
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   Where I live in Minnesota we are again finding out what it is like to go without rain for a while.  There is not much one can do. We can pray, of course, but we know what happens then.  We know that sometimes it rains and sometimes it doesn’t rain.  Anyone who knows
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From a sermon by Dwight L. Moody: Â Â Â I thank God my salvation don’t rest upon my feelings. Â I thank God my hope is not centered on my feelings. Â If it was, it would be a very treacherous thing. Â I would be very hopeful one day and cast down the next day. Â I would
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 By Randy Alcorn, on his July 28, 2014 Blog at:  http://www.epm.org    If you frequent social media, perhaps you’ve seen singer Colbie Caillat’s music video for her song “Try,” in which she challenges society’s expectations of beauty for women.  The video, which features the singer and several other diverse women removing their makeup
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   Kelly Adkins wrote this article in 1992 as a project for a writing class in graduate school.  It was later published in Campus Life magazine, and then in many other places.  Kevin was Kelly’s older brother.  He died in 2007 at the age of 45 of colon cancer.    My brother Kevin thinks
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By Johann Gerhard (1582-1637), a German Lutheran pastor and professor of theology.  He wrote dozens of books, including Sacred Meditations, a collection of 51 meditations published in 1606.  This piece was taken from the chapter 29 of that book.    An angel fell even in the presence of God.  Adam and Eve fell into sin
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