Andree Seu Peterson is my favorite columnist. She writes a column for World, a Christian news magazine. Every month, she selects a little snippet of her life to contemplate upon, and then she writes a page about it. She is about my age, so she writes about many of the same things I […]
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Amy Grant’s 2013 album How Mercy Looks From Here contains the song Greet the Day. This song was inspired a prayer Grant heard years ago. Today’s meditation contains the lyrics to the song, a link to the video, and the simple little prayer the song is based on. GREET THE DAY By Amy Grant and Cindy
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From A Touch of His Love, by Al Rogness, pages 44-5 ****************************** “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says the Lord. Isn’t that fortunate? And isn’t it fortunate that God sometimes annuls our ways, blocks us from doing something our way, and directs us into His way?
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The pastor and the church council were locked in a heated debate. The council wanted to spend $7,000 to re-carpet the entire church. The pastor said the old carpet was good enough, and if they had $7,000 extra dollars laying around, they should use it to catch up on their commitments to the
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(…continued) This parable provides some insight into the nagging problem of why God allows so much trouble in our lives. The potential for trouble came when God created us with a free will to live as He has commanded, or, to do it our own way; to live for our Creator, or to
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(…continued) God faces this same problem with all of us, all the time. That is a part of what is going on in Jesus’ parable in Matthew 13 (verses 24-30…36-43): Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was
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One of my favorite preachers was Fred Craddock (1928-2015), a long time professor of preaching and the pastor of a church in Cherry Log, Georgia. Fred and his wife were invited to the home of Charles and Emily for dinner. When everyone got ready to gather around the table, Charles said to
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