Psalm 40:1-4a — I waited patiently upon the Lord, who stooped to me and heard my cry. The Lord lifted me out of the desolate pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a high cliff, making my footing sure. The Lord has put a new song in my mouth, a song […]
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By John Stonestreet and Roberto Rivera, posted December 6, 2019 at: http://www.breakpoint.org —————————– Between 1959 and 2016, life expectancy in the United States rose from 69.9 to 78.9 years. Most people know that. But did you know that since then, it’s reversed course? A new study published in the Journal of
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By Joshua Rogers, posted November 17, 2019, at: http://www.joshuarogers.com ————————————— It was 9:20 a.m. on a Monday morning and I was about to appear on Fox and Friends for an interview with Steve Doocey. The interview happened after FoxNews.com published an op-ed of mine called “What happened when my daughter saw me kiss
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By Greg Morse, posted March 26, 2019 at: http://www.desiringGod.org “I have nothing to show for my life,” he said. “No career. Few friends. No spouse. No financial future. Nothing. I’m enslaved to debt, struggle with childhood sins, and have little left to hope for. Don’t hear me say something I’m not,
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(…continued) We might say that the man who confronted Jesus in Luke 8 had ‘lost his mind.’ That is the expression we sometimes use. And our brains and mental abilities are so very fragile that there are many ways we can lose our mind. One of the ways we see that most often these
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David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) was a Welsh Protestant minister. For almost thirty years he was the pastor of Westminster Chapel in London. This bit of wisdom is from his book Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures. He is writing about how the writer of Psalm 42 deals with his depression (below). This method is used
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When hope is but a pinhole of light in a wall of darkness, only Faith, Love, and Duty get me through a life of chronic pain. By Devin Foley (pictured above), posted June 11, 2018, at: http://www.intellectualtakeout.org . Foley is the co-founder and CEO of ‘Intellectual Takeout.’ ——————————— For ten years now, I
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By Joshua Rogers, posted May 19, 2018, at http://www.foxnews.com. Rogers blogs at http://www.joshuarogers.com ———————- I sat in the Fox News Washington studio last fall and waited to be interviewed on “Fox & Friends” about a heart-warming op-ed I had written for Fox News headlined “What happened when my daughter saw me kiss my
By Lewis Smedes (1921-2002) in Standing on the Promises, 1998, pages 58…81-84. ———————————– Tammy Kramer was chief of the outpatient AIDS clinic at Los Angeles County Hospital. She was watching a young man who had come in one morning for his regular dose of medicine. He sat in tired silence on a high clinic
1840) Hope Adjustment Read More »
Above: Duke Ellington (1899-1974) —————————- From yesterday’s Ash Wednesday sermon —————- Yesterday was Fat Tuesday in New Orleans, the last day of the Mardi Gras Carnival. Mardi Gras is several days, even weeks, of increasingly wild partying and celebrating in that city known for its wild partying. The hooting and hollering, the overindulging,
1771) “The Good Times Do Come to an End” Read More »
