1558) Wishing You Bad Luck

Chief Justice John Roberts  (1955- ) Last month United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the commencement address at Cardigan Mountain School, a private all-boys school in New…

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1434) Like Who?

By Joshua Rogers, posted March 14, 2017 at:  www.joshuarogers.com ------------------------------      My wife and I did not intend to have another year of sweeping changes in 2016.  We never do.…

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1405) Reduced to Nothing

By William Willimon, Pulpit Resource, January 31,1999, p. 19.             It is a sad sight to see someone who seemed to be something reduced to nothing…             When I first…

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1379) No Complaints

From Your New Money Mindset, by Brad Hewitt and James Moline, 2015, Tyndale House Publishers.      My Grandpa Colby was a young teen when he was summoned to a…

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1378) One Way God Speaks

By Daniel Ritchie, posted January 16, 2017 at: www.desiringgod.org Ritchie is the student pastor at Lake Norman Baptist Church in Huntersville, North Carolina.  He is a husband and father of…

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1356) When You Are Sick

Lovis Corinth, Franz Heinrich Corinth on his Sick Bed, 1888 ---------------------- By Lutheran pastor Al Rogness (1908-1992), Book of Comfort, Augsburg Publishing House, 1979, pages 32-35.      I had…

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1197) Learning Patience

-------------------- Chapter Five, John Ploughman’s Talks: Plain Advice for Plain People, 1869, Charles Spurgeon, English preacher and author, (1834-1892) ---------------------------------      Patience is better than wisdom: an ounce of…

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252) Meditating on Affliction

Affliction is God’s shepherd dog to drive us back to the fold.  --Anonymous God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.  --Thomas Watson When we grow careless of keeping our souls,…

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