“You Are What You Sweep: Why being made of dust is both terrifying and encouraging” By Andrew Wilson, posted April 20, 2020 at: http://www.christianitytoday.org . Wilson is teaching pastor at King’s Church London and author of Spirit and Sacrament (Zondervan). ————————————————    Dust goes unnoticed, for the most part. It surrounds us, but unless […]
Pictured above: Samson Occom (1723-1792) —————– By Robert J. Morgan in One Hundred Bible Verses That Made America, 2020, pages 56-58. ————    In 1723, a Native American boy was born in a wigwam in the village of Mohegan in Connecticut.  He was named Occom.  He later wrote, “My parents lived a wandering life, as
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From a Funeral Sermon ——————————–    Many people have asked me if it is wrong to ask God to let them die. Others, like Albert, did not feel the need to ask for my opinion. But Albert has been praying for the last several months for death to come. He has been saying,
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   Sometimes when faced with tragedy or trouble we comfort ourselves by saying, “Oh well, it could have been worse;” or, “At least it is not as bad as what happened to that family down the street;” or, we may say, “Being in the hospital was tough, but I saw there a lot of
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From John Piper’s just released book, Coronavirus and Christ  available free of charge from Desiring God Ministries, at: http://www.dgm.org ————————————–    The coronavirus pandemic is where I live. It is where we all live. And if it weren’t the coronavirus, it would be the cancer just waiting to recur. Or the unprovoked pulmonary embolism from 2014 just
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“How C.S. Lewis Would Tell Us to Handle Coronavirus” by Annie Holmquist, editor of Intellectual Takeout, posted March 16, 2020, at:  http://www.intellectualtakeout.org ——————————————–    Last week I saw a C.S. Lewis quote shared on social media. I’d seen this quote from his essay “On Living in an Atomic Age” before, but shrugged it
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“On the Death of Colin Stuart” A Funeral Meditation By Martin Bell, in The Way of the Wolf: The Gospel in New Images, 1968, Ballantine Books, pages 75-77. ——————————– John 16:22 — Jesus said to his disciples, “Ye now, therefore, have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and your
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Posted December 7, 2019 at: http://www.opendoors/usa.org “Open Doors colleague, Ron Boyd-MacMillan, shares the following insight from his teaching, “Why I Need to Encounter the Persecuted Church.” ————————————–    There is a famous book called The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker. It is Becker’s contention that the whole of the Western world is really
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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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By Janie B. Cheaney, posted September 30, 2019, at http://www.wng.org , the website for World news magazine ————————————– I don’t envy others their big houses or frequent vacations (or not much!). Here’s what I do envy: Those grandparents who get to visit their grandkids more than twice a year. Living less than a day’s drive—say,
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