Christ the Redeemer statue, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ——————– Robert Coles is a psychology professor at Harvard, an author, and a Christian. He tells the story of a little girl he met in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He described that poverty stricken village as follows: “Death haunted every […]
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SLOOP JOHN B by The Beach Boys We come on the Sloop John B, my grandfather and me. Around Nassau town we did roam. Drinking all night, got into a fight, Well I feel so broke up, I want to go home. (Chorus): So hoist up the John B’s sails, see how the main sail sets,
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Frank McCourt (1930-2009) (…continued) Frank McCourt was a man skilled in the writing and speaking of words. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling book Angela’s Ashes, in which he tells hilarious stories of his miserable childhood growing up in Limerick, Ireland. It is not all hilarious, of course, as
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Today’s song is not from the 60’s or 70’s, but it is by one of the best songwriters from those years, John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Fogerty began a solo career after CCR broke up in 1972. He wrote “Don’t You Wish it Was True?” for his 2005 album Revival. While John
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“Eternity is in our hearts,” was the theme of yesterday’s meditation. We are frustrated and saddened by the swift passage of time, and the Bible tells us of a place beyond time that God has prepared for us. But John Lennon was not interested. In one of the biggest hits of all time
