   (…continued)  Well, Jesus should have said that sooner.  We know that each person is important.     But do we?    A while back I was listening to the Minnesota news on WCCO radio.  The first story was that the police were releasing the name of the person whose body was discovered […]
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Above: The Lost Coin, Eugene Burnand  (1850-1921) —————————   I heard this story from someone who said it actually happened to him.  He was in a grocery store, in line behind a lady who was a champion coupon clipper.  She turned in a handful of coupons to be subtracted from her bill.
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  (…continued) God would much rather deal with us by speaking softly than with a stick, and how could this be made more clear than in the Christmas story?  Nowhere else in the Bible does God speak more directly or more clearly than when he comes to earth himself in the person of Jesus.  Imagine
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Above images: Isaiah 11:6; 65:25 —————————-    (…continued)  God’s intention was to do without the big stick.  The Bible makes it clear that God would much rather deal with us by love and mercy and soft words.  That is God’s preferred way of working with us, and that is probably the way all people
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Theodore Roosevelt at the Minnesota State Fair, 1901 ————————– Â Â Â Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) was a brilliant and courageous man, eager to change this nation and the entire world. Â As president from 1901-1909, he was a major player on the international scene. Â On Sept. 2, 1901, while still Vice-President, Roosevelt gave a speech at the
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Matthew 24:42-44  —  (Jesus said), ““Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.  But understand this:  If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.  So
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Tedashii Lavoy Anderson (above) is a Christian hip-hop artist living in Atlanta.  His newest album, Below Paradise, reached No. 17 on the Billboard Top 200.  This testimony appeared in the November 2015 issue of Christianity Today, pages 103-4 (www.christianity.com) ———————–    I grew up thinking I was the good kid.  I believed that most of
From The Hand that Holds Me, 1984, by Michael Rogness, pages 47-49. Â Â Â Salvation, or being saved, are terms often used to describe God’s purpose for mankind. Â It is interesting to ask a group of people, “What is salvation?” Â What does it mean “to be saved?” Â We talk about it, but do we ever
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    (…continued)  One of the keys to this is in our understanding of faith.  Here too there is a tension in how the Bible defines and presents faith.  Is faith itself something we do, or, is it a gift of God?  We can find Bible passages that seem to describe it both ways.  Ephesians 2:8 says
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      At the very center of the Christian faith is God’s love.  Jesus said, “A new command I give you:  Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another.  By this, all will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”  Later, the apostle John
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