By Fred Craddock, Craddock Stories, pages 126-127 (adapted). ——————————————–    Up near where I live, at Fannin County Hospital, ministers around take turns being chaplain for the week.  I took my turn, and the week I was on watch, there was a baby born.  Not many are born in that small, thirty-bed hospital.  But I went […]
2628) “Do You Think She’ll Remember?” Read More »
People were bringing little children to Jesus in order that he might touch them; and the disciples spoke sternly to them.  But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of
2599) Act Your Age? Read More »
By Anne Lamott (1954- ), Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, Pantheon Press, 1999, pages 99-103.    Sam is the only kid he knows of who goes to church. I make him go. He rarely wants to.    This is not exactly true. The truth is he never wants to go. What 7-year-old
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“Coveting Luke’s Faith” by Dana Tierney, in The New York Times Magazine, January 11, 2004.    When I was a child in Sunday school, I would ask searching questions like ”Angels can fly up in heaven, but how do clouds hold up pianos?” and get the same puzzling response about how that was not important,
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The Story of Two Dads, Two Boys, and One Father, by Joshua Rogers, blogging at:Â http://www.joshuarogers.com , posted July 4, 2020. ———————————— Â Â Â The other night I had a dream about my dad, who died over two years ago. Â Â Â I was in the fellowship hall of the church we attended when I
By James Mulholland, Praying Like Jesus: The Lord’s Prayer in a Culture of Prosperity, Harper Collins, © 2011, pages 36-38.     One day, after we had visited with my grandfather, I heard my father comment to my mother, “I hope I can be as good a man as my father.”  Sitting in the backseat of our
2326) Being Just Like Dad Read More »
By James Dobson, in Hide or Seek, 1974, pages 176-178. ————————– Â Â Â Â A woman told me recently about her experience as a room mother for her daughter’s fourth-grade class. Â She visited the classroom on Valentine’s Day to assist the teacher with the traditional party on that holiday. Â This mother said the teacher announced that the
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By Dikkon Eberhart, in Christianity Today magazine, December 2019 issue, pages 71-72 ( http://www.christianitytoday. com ). Eberhart is a writer living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia. His memoir is The Time Mom Met Hitler, Frost Came to Dinner, and I Heard the Greatest Story Ever Told (Tyndale). He blogs at: http://www.dikkoneberhart.com —————————————–
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By Amy Henry, married, mother of six, teacher, and correspondent for World magazine.  This article, entitled “Why I Can’t Teach Your Child,” was posted October 3, 2014 at:  www.wng.org     Four times I asked him to take out a piece of paper.  Four times I asked him to find a pencil.  Each and every time we reached
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By John Stonestreet and Shane Morris, December 12, 2019 blog at: http://www.breakpoint.org ——————————    Belief in God is good for you… and not just in the eternal long run. There’s a powerful link between religious devotion and happiness, mental health, and participation in community.    Earlier this year, Pew Research found that actively
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