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, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses. –Richard Sibbes God measures out affliction to our need. –St. John Chrysostom, Homily […]
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“Learning From Lepers” NOTE TO READER: Sundays (at least for a while) I will be posting a one hour video in two parts: Part One will be a worship service, and Part Two will be something else. The video is directly below this text. Below the video on this page is the Order of Service
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By Andrew Latham, professor of International Relations at Macalester College, St. Paul Minnesota; portions of an article posted October 1, 2020, at: http://www.intellectualtakeout.org Before March of this year, few probably thought disease could be a significant driver of human history. Not so anymore. People are beginning to understand that the little changes COVID-19 has already
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By Greg Morse (…continued) Oh, the fearsome, wonderful love of God. This God is so serious about having his own that he will starve them now to feed them forever, kill them now to keep them forever. His enemies may call him a monster, but his saints sing, “Because your steadfast love is
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By Greg Morse (…continued) Many are content with God’s love consisting in only tender kindness and unbroken gentleness. They wish for his love to be wholly devoted to their immediate happiness — however they choose to seek it. Tenderness seems to be the unimpeachable disposition some imagine of God. Tender toward our dreams.
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We hear much about how ‘God is love.’ In fact, from some, that is all we hear about God. But where would anyone ever get such a notion? We would not learn that from just looking at the world around us. If we just look at the world, we don’t even see God,
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Fear is contagious. But thankfully, so is courage. Both are cultivated in the company we keep and the truths that dominate our thinking. For the Christian, the guardrails for our fear in any situation are God’s presence and his promises, which will never fail his people. Because of that, we are stronger than we
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(…continued) The Bible verse I am reminded of when I think of Gary is II Corinthians 4:16: “Therefore, we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.” Outwardly we are wasting away, Paul says, and we know what he means– especially after a
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Many people’s ‘golden years’ are ruined by Parkinson’s Disease. Gary was diagnosed with Early-onset Parkinson’s as a teenager, and it could have ruined his entire life. But the disease did not ruin Gary’s life. He did not let that happen. He made the best of whatever Parkinson’s did not take from him, even though by
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“God, The Universe, and My Aquarium” by Philip Yancey, Christianity Today magazine, July 13, 1984, page 66. ( http://www.christianitytoday.com ) ———————- When I look out my window, I see a 12-story apartment building, all concrete and glass, with bicycles, Weber grills and lawn chairs propped up at random on its balconies. And also
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