In John 14:26, Jesus promised that after he went away, he would send the Holy Spirit to “remind you of everything I have said to you.” One of the ways the Holy Spirit reminds us of Jesus is by the lives of people who have been inspired by the example of Jesus’ life, as […]
In 1963, when he was twenty-one, Stephen Hawking (1942-2018) was diagnosed with ALS and given just two years to live. It might be that Hawking’s illness helped him become the noted scientist he became. Before the illness, Hawking had been a lazy student. He still did well because he was so intelligent, but
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TWO PICTURES –By Annie Douglas Robinson (1842-1913) An old farmhouse with meadows wide, And sweet with clover on each side; A bright-eyed boy, who looks from out The door with woodbine wreathed about, And wishes his one thought all day: ”Oh, if I could only fly away From this dull spot, the world to see,
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(…continued) For almost a century Winston Churchill walked like a giant on the world’s stage. But even that was not enough to satisfy him. He knew that whatever he had going for him, it would only be in this world, and only for this century– and then, he would have to leave everything.
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Winston Churchill (1874-1965) —————— I saw printed on a T-shirt these words: “The best is good enough for me.” Perhaps whoever wrote that got it from Winston Churchill who once said, “My tastes are simple; I am easily satisfied with the best.” And Winston Churchill, for all of his 90 years, did have
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In Luke 6:21 Jesus says, “Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied.” SATISFIED. Did anyone ever tell you to ‘just be satisfied’? I’ve been told that. I used to be told that all the time by my parents. Like most other kids, whenever I got into a store, there was
The fact that no one is satisfied with what he has is a very common plague. Consequently, everyone says: Why is it that the crops are always better in another’s field than in our own, and that the neighbor’s cows give more milk than ours? And why is it that no one is
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Night after night, for several weeks, Mitch prays to the Lord that he would win the lottery, earnestly pleading with God, telling Him that he is facing financial ruin without that money. Week after week, he does not win anything, and his situation and his prayers become ever more desperate. Finally, one night in the
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(…continued) Then something interesting happened. There was an earthquake that shook the foundations of the prison. Think about that. Your best chance of survival in an earthquake would be to run out into the street where nothing can fall on you. You most definitely would not want to be chained to
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By Johann Gerhard (1582-1637), a German Lutheran pastor and professor of theology. He wrote dozens of books, including Sacred Meditations, a collection of 51 meditations published in 1606 from which this piece was taken. The greedy man is the poorest of all men, because what he has fails him as much as what he does not have. He
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