By Lee Strobel, reprinted from: http://www.biblegateway.com    Sometimes I think back to the days when I was convinced there was no God. I would lie awake at night and think about the ultimate hopelessness of life. I believed that when we die, that’s it.  Lights out. There’s nothing more.    That’s a terrifying thought, […]
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By Ed Cheek (2001) at: http://www.ATStracts.org    He was one of the most compelling athletic heroes in American history. Long after he’d hung up his fabled pin striped uniform, grown men would stammer and stutter in his presence and faithful fans would pay outlandish prices for his memorabilia. His achievements were many, but they cannot
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By Chris Brekke    Sometimes a person will get to the point where they are not sure whether it’s better to live or to die.  On most of our pleasant and prosperous days in this blessed nation, we just cruise on with life.  With little depth of awareness, we will often go about our
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   (…continued) Jesus final words at the end of the book of Revelation are “I am coming soon.” Soon, he said.  And that is followed by this urgent prayer: “Amen. Come Lord Jesus.” Now, 2000 years later, the world is still suspended between Christ’s first coming as that baby in the manger, and this second
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      Waiting is a big part of many Bible stories. Abraham waited for the birth of a child. The Israelites waited centuries for deliverance from slavery in Egypt. Moses waited four decades for the call to lead them, and then four more decades for a promised land that he would
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From a funeral sermon.      It has been said that every time someone dies it is like a whole library has been destroyed, because the accumulated knowledge, experience, and wisdom of a lifetime is lost. I thought about when I heard Ed died. Ed experienced so much, read so much, and
Above Painting: The Angelus, 1859, Jean Francois Millet  (1814-1875) (see also the prayer at bottom of meditation) ********************************    (…continued)  This theme of remembering is also a big theme in the Bible.  God wants you to remember a few things about him and what he has done for you.  Not only that, he has
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Hebrews 13:8– Â Jesus Christ, the same, yesterday, today, and forever. ******************************* Â Â Â I spent Friday afternoon at the Le Sueur County Pioneer Power Show. Â What started out 43 years ago as a small local Threshing Bee, has grown into one of the largest shows of its kind in the Midwest. Â It has a little
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Painting above:Â The Parable of the Rich Fool, Rembrandt, 1627. ******************************** By Alvin Rogness, The Word for Every Day, page 15, Augsburg Publishing House, 1981. Â Â Â I hadn’t seen him in two years. Â During the years I had lived in this Midwestern city I had often eaten in his cafe. Â We became close friends.
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By Randy Alcorn, January 22, 2016 blog at: http://www.epm.org    No Christian should be a pessimist.  We should be realists—focused on the actuality that we serve a sovereign and gracious God.  But because of the reality of Christ’s atoning sacrifice and His promises, biblical realism is, ultimately, optimism.    If we build our
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