From a sermon by Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969), former pastor at New York’s Riverside Church: Â Â Â How easy it is to grow bitter about life! Â Just as on an autumn day walking through a rough country field and coming back covered with nettles, how easy it is to walk through life and accumulate stings! […]
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   Imagine getting through your busy day without arms or legs.  Picture your life without the ability to walk, care for your basic needs, or even embrace those you love.  Meet Nicholas Vujicic (pronounced VOO-yee-cheech).  Without any medical explanation or warning, Nick was born in 1982 in Melbourne, Australia, without arms and legs.  The Vujicic
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From The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis  (1380-1471) ————————— The wise lover of God regards not so much the gifts of Him who loves, as the love of Him who gives the gifts.  We should esteem the affection of the Giver more than the value of the gift, and love God more than all
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From The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis  (1380-1471) ——————– Trust in God to Endure Slander (ch. 46)    Stand firm and trust in God, for what are the mean and critical things others say against you but mere words?  They fly through the air but cannot hurt anything. If you are guilty, consider
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 From Our Journey Home, by Gary Bauer, 1992, pages 164-166.   Judy Squier by anyone’s definition would be considered a winner.  She has a happy marriage and is raising three well-adjusted children.  She is active in her church and in community affairs in her hometown in California.  Many people can boast of having these
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By Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1939), Letters and Papers from Prison, pages 346-7, edited by Eberhard Bethge, copyright 1953, SCM Press, Ltd.    Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a young theologian of great promise.  He became active in the Confessing Church movement in Germany which took a stand against the Nazi government in the 1930’s.  His activities made him
262) Who Am I? I Am Thine. Read More »
Selected and paraphrased from The Table Talk of Martin Luther, translated by William Hazlitt, 1857. These are selections from the many notes taken by students and others who dined with Luther, recording his spontaneous, conversational wisdom. The Luther home was always entertaining guests. Martin would bring home as many as twenty-five unannounced guests for his
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This piece is from a 1944 interview with C. S. Lewis (1898-1963). Â It can be found in the book God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics, by C. S. Lewis, pages 51-52. QUESTION: Â Â Â Many people feel resentful or unhappy because they think they are the target of unjust fate. Â These feelings
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By Doug Tilley, a pastor from North Carolina, in World magazine, 10-8-11, p. 52. Â Â Â I have been diagnosed with a disease named after one of the greatest baseball players in history, Lou Gehrig. Â Gehrig played for the New York Yankees from 1923 to 1939, the year doctors told him he had Amyotrophic Lateral
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   (continued…)  How did the young couple with the child born blind respond to Pastor John’s letter?  They quit coming to church.  This reaction was not to the letter in particular, but to the God of whom the letter spoke.  The father said later that he still believed in God, and believed that God
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