“I hardly had a drink in years,” said a man from New Orleans who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina. “But right after the hurricane hit, I started drinking again. Now, if I stop drinking, the pain becomes so great it is unbearable. I am scared because I don’t have any identity anymore.” He […]
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(…continued) Where is Eddie now? Let’s look at the question from a different perspective, from the other end of life. Imagine a little newborn baby, let’s call her Aisha. Let’s say Aisha was born just this morning, so she is here now; but where was she a year ago? How did she get
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In Ezekiel 37 the prophet is given a vision of a valley filled with skeletons, the remains of thousands of dead people. The Lord asked Ezekiel if those dry bones could live. ‘Can the dead really live again?’ was the question. “O Lord,” Ezekiel replied, “only you know that.”
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By C. S. Lewis in Mere Christianity, 1952 I remember once when I had been giving a talk to the R.A.F., an old, hard-bitten officer got up and said, “I’ve no use for all that stuff. But, mind you, I’m a religious man too. I know there’s a God. I’ve felt Him: out alone in the
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The story is told of an old man who lived on a farm in the hills of Kentucky with his young grandson. Each morning, grandpa was up early, sitting at the kitchen table reading from his old Bible. His grandson, who wanted to be just like his grandfather, imitated him in any way
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(continued…) Bill had lived a blessed life. In high school he was a good student and star athlete, and he then did well in college. He enlisted and went to Vietnam where he served with distinction. He returned to his small town a hero. He took over his dad’s farm, the biggest in
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My first church was in a small town in northwest North Dakota. Folks there prided themselves on being loyal, fair, and honest. One of the farmers told me about how large business dealings would often be agreed on and guaranteed with nothing more than a handshake. He then added, “If a person in
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(…continued) This is powerfully seen in the story of the three men in the fiery furnace in the Old Testament book of Daniel. Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar had created a huge statue of himself and commanded that everyone in the kingdom bow down and worship it. Three of the king’s most trusted servants, Shadrach, Meshach, and
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Life is filled with tests. If you want to drive a car, you have to take a test. If you want to get a job, you often have to take a test to see if you qualify. And of course the school years are full of tests. And these tests usually measure either
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