   (…continued)  But that wasn’t all Jesus had to say about the end of the world.  His most important word on the subject was to come right at the end of Luke’s telling of this story in chapter twenty-one.  After describing all the bad things that will happen, Jesus told the people to stand firm, […]
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Above photo:Â Wells Fargo Center construction, Minneapolis, 1988 ————— Â Â Â Whenever I see the downtown Minneapolis skyline I think of my brother Larry. Â When I was in college and he was in grade school, he would tell me of his dream of becoming an electrician. Â Ten years later, he was an apprentice electrician, learning
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By Randy Alcorn, July 10, 2015 blog (adapted) at: http://www.epm.org    Having an eternal perspective is in many ways the key to living a true Christ-following life.  Scripture says in 2 Corinthians 4:18, “So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary,
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Funeral Sermon for Anna    I read in the obituary that Anna died at the age of ninety-seven years, one month, and thirteen days.  Hearing the length of life figured out to the day like that is a reminder that while our time on earth is usually measured in years, our lives are lived
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   By Randy Alcorn’s December 17, 2014 blog at:  www.epm.org    Jesus said, “The eye is the lamp of the body.  If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.  But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness” (Matthew 6:22-23).  He makes it
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From chapter 16 in THE IMITATION OF CHRIST by Thomas a Kempis  (1380-1471)    Whatever I can desire or imagine for my own comfort I look for not here but in the hereafter.  For if I alone should have all the world’s comforts and could enjoy all its delights, it is certain that they
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Adapted from Randy Alcorn’s July 18, 2014 blog at:  http://www.epm.org    Peter encouraged Christians to find joy by focusing not on the trial that will go on only “a little while” but on their heavenly inheritance that will never perish.  As missionary martyr Jim Elliot put it, “He is no fool who gives what
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Johann Gerhard (1582-1637) was 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 44 of that book. Â Â Â Keep Christ, your blessed Savior, always in mind, and you will have no dread
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From Let Me Tell You a Story, by Tony Campolo, copyright 2000    There are those who say that evil is so overpowering that our efforts to combat it are futile.  There are pessimists who contend that there is no way we can drive back the forces that seem to dominate our society. I disagree!
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From a sermon / May 2011    (…continued)  And so, I do feel sorry for Clint Eastwood.  You wouldn’t think anyone would need to feel sorry for him at all, with all that money, success, fame, and honor.  But as you well know, a man of his age is on the verge of leaving
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