Francis Rous (1579-1659), an English lawyer and churchman, reworked the words of the twenty-third Psalm into a wonderful hymn, “The Lord’s My Shepherd.” His adaptation of the Psalm has been revised into many different forms, and has been put to many different tunes, and sung in many different ways. The link below […]
Painting above: The Empty Tomb, Mikhail Nesterov (1862-1942) ————————– ALLELUIA! CHRIST IS RISEN! CHRIST IS RISEN, INDEED! ALLELUIA! ———————- Christians all over the world begin their Easter worship services with those words. Alleluia, also spelled Hallelujah, is a Biblical word of praise that has become very well known in recent years because of a
By Curtis Meier, nurse in a British hospital; posted December 4, 2014 at: wwww.plough.com The Acute Medical Unit is a high-octane environment, a tangle of clinicians engaged in the frantic battle to save lives. End-of-life care has never been its forte. On a cold, dark October evening, an eighty-four-year-old man named Mark
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(…continued) During a major league baseball game a few years back, a dog somehow got out onto the field and began wandering around, casually sniffing here and there as dogs do. The game was stopped so that the dog could be taken off the field. The umpires chased it, and called for
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Tom Wolfe (pictured above) is a best-selling American author. As a young man he worked for a newspaper. Then he wrote ten non-fiction books. He then wrote four novels, all which were very successful and made him famous. He has also written hundreds of essays and articles. He is now well
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By Pastor Greg Laurie, September 10, 2014 blog, at: www.GregLaurie.com This story is told of President Franklin Roosevelt, who often endured long receiving lines at the White House. He complained that no one really paid any attention to what he said. One day, during a reception, he decided to try an
If you could sum up your reason for going to church in one word, what would that word be? You might respond that you go to church purely out of HABIT. There would be, of course, reasons for getting into this habit, and reasons for staying with it; but habit is
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By Charles Spurgeon English preacher and author, in John Ploughman’s Talks: Plain Advice for Plain People, (chapter two, edited), 1869 This book (and much more by Spurgeon) can be viewed at: http://www.spurgeon.org/misc/plowman.htm When a man has a particularly empty head, he will often set himself up as a great judge, especially in
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We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, in order to make your hope sure. We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised. –Hebrews 6:11-12 (…continued…) In his best-selling book The Road Less
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(…continued…) Our churches have been richly blessed with freedom and abundance and in many ways it is ‘easy’ to be a Christian in this time and place. I would not wish for an end to these blessings. But the Bible does warn of the dangers of abundance and ease, and we are seeing
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