Above: The Road to Emmaus, 1877, Robert Zund, Swiss painter, (1826-1909) ———- Luke 24 tells the story of Jesus joining two men walking on the road to Emmaus, a little town about seven miles from Jerusalem. It was the afternoon of the day Jesus rose from the dead. These men had known Jesus, […]
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From my sermon for the funeral of Roger, who was once a member of the church I was serving, but had long ago moved away. I knew Roger’s brother Mike, but never met Roger or any other members of the family. Mike told me that Roger was at one time a hard worker and a
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By Kathryn Butler, January 11, 2025, at: http://www.desiringgod.org . Kathryn is a trauma and critical care surgeon turned writer and homeschooling mom. She is author of The Dream Keeper Saga. ************************************ (…continued) For so long, I had denied God and wallowed in darkness. But God never released his hold on me (Ephesians 2:1–9).
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By Kathryn Butler, January 11, 2025, at: desiringgod.org January 11,2025 ************************ During my year in the ICU as I trained as a trauma surgeon, the threat of tragedy loomed daily. Every morning, I would tweak ventilator settings and titrate drips in desperate attempts to keep people alive. When all efforts failed, the afternoon
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From the novel Jubilee (1966), by Margaret W. Alexander (1915-98); (Quoted in Conversations With God: Two Centuries of African-American Prayers, ed. by James M. Washington, pp. 213, HarperCollins). Before she realized where she was going she found herself deep in the woods… where there was a chapel-hush. She heard birds softly and sweetly singing, but most
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(…continued) “In the midst of life, we are in death. Of whom may we seek comfort but of Thee, O Lord…” “You only live once,” Fred said. “Once is enough,” said the lady at the counter. But it is not life she is tired of, it is death; death in all of
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Author and Presbyterian pastor Frederick Buechner (1926- 2022) tells this story: My wife and I were buying groceries one day; I was on one side of the small store and she was on the other. I said loudly, “Don’t forget the ice cream,” and she said, “All right, but don’t you forget you are trying
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYVXqr7M7QY ———————————————————— Don’t Look Now, But I’ve Got the Blues, 1958, by the ‘King of the Blues,’ B. B. King (1925-2015) My pockets are empty, I feel so low If somebody loves me, ain’t said so And I got holes, in both of my shoes Don’t look now, but I’ve got the blues. There ain’t
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(…continued) Three months later (pages 99-100): Thirteen weeks after the accident David told me the details. He told me quietly, peacefully, matter-of-factly that he had seen the car coming at him and Johnny. I was stunned. I wonder how many of these scenarios are packed away inside the minds of the
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Above: John-Paul Floyd (1988-1995) ———————- In April of 1995, six-year old John-Paul was playing in front of his house with his brother David when both were struck by a car. David survived with bruises, but John-Paul died instantly. The boys’ father, Gregory Floyd, wrote about the family’s’ heartbreaking journey through sorrow in A Grief Unveiled
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