By Max Lucado    There’s one gift your troubles cannot touch: your eternal destiny.    I remember when my father had just retired.  He and mom wanted to visit every national park in their travel trailer.  Then came the diagnosis of ALS, a cruel degenerative disease that affects the muscles.  Within months, the […]
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    Few people get to live a life as blessed, as successful, and as prosperous as Thomas Jefferson. He was born to wealth and then lived in luxury all of his 83 years. He enjoyed good health for 82 of those years; only in his last year of life did he begin to fail. He
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   A story is told about an American tourist’s visit to an old rabbi who lived somewhere in Europe.  The tourist had heard about the old man’s great wisdom, and he hoped to gain some wisdom about how to best live his life.    The rabbi invited the tourist into his apartment.
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By Randy Alcorn, January 27, 2025, at: http://www.epm.org ——————————————    I asked the men in my weekly small group, “If you knew today you had only one week to live, what would you do?” We came up with a number of answers and then asked ourselves why we wouldn’t do those things soon—this week
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   In Acts 17 Paul is proclaiming the Gospel to some Greek philosophers in the marketplace in Athens.  Paul begins the discussion by commenting on the culture around him, connecting with what his listeners are already familiar with. He refers to the many altars, shrines, and idols he saw on his walk around the
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By Johann Gerhard (1582-1637), a German Lutheran pastor and professor of theology. Â He wrote dozens of books, including Sacred Meditations, a collection of 51 meditations published in 1606. Â This piece was taken from the chapter 38 of that book. ———————————— Â Â Â Consider the misery and brevity of this present life, so that you may
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    At Eternity’s Gate (above) is an oil painting that Vincent van Gogh made in 1890.  The painting was completed in early May at a time when he was convalescing from a severe relapse in his mental health troubles, and just two months before his death, generally accepted as a suicide.  The painting was
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Above drawing: Woman Praying at a Deathbed, 1864, by Swiss artist Benjamin Vautier (1829-1898) ——————————————- The day will come for each of us when we will need these prayers. FOR THE DYING: O my heavenly Father, God of all comfort, I thank you for revealing to me your dear Son, Jesus Christ, in whom I
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Luke 23:32-43 — Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with Jesus to be executed. When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his left. Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And
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An article by Joel Belz in World magazine, July 18, 2009 (with slight editing). Note that this article was written sixteen years ago, so the dollar amounts have increased significantly; but the issue is the same, the debate has continued, and we are all sixteen years closer to the time that each of us may
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