Marvin Gaye’s 1968 song “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” is #80 on Rolling Stone magazine’s top 500 hits of all time. Jesus also had something to say about grapevines, and I will get to that after the song. ———- NOTE TO READER: For the best format to display each day’s meditation, always click on […]
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   On April 3, 1968 the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a speech in Memphis, Tennessee. In that speech he reviewed the previous several years of the long struggle for equal rights for his people in this country. He talked about his place in that struggle, and how his life had been
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From a 2018 funeral sermon. ———————–   In the New Testament book of I Peter, the old disciple was writing to encourage fellow Christians who were suffering under severe persecution. In a closing benediction, in chapter five (verses 10-11), Peter wrote: “And the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in
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—————————     It was 1926, and 21-year-old Albert Brumley (1905-1977) was picking cotton on his father’s farm in Oklahoma. The work was hard, the sun was hot, and Alfred was wishing he could be somewhere else. He did not love farming. He loved music; writing, playing, and singing music. In fact, as he worked, he
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   “I received good news from my hospice nurse today,” said the elderly lady I was visiting.  Helen had been fighting cancer for a year, and was now about to lose that battle.    “What did she tell you,” I asked, wondering if perhaps there had been a change in her diagnosis. Â
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  On November 10, 2020 I wrote: “I will be back soon. Thank you for reading. –Pastor Leon Stier”     Sorry it took so long.     I hope you are all still there. It has been a while since I posted one of these. I had some computer and website issues that needed fixing,
         (…continued)     If there are any other resurrection stories that are historically true and will withstand investigation, I would like to know about them. But after 40 years of extensive reading on the subject, I haven’t seen anything even close to being credible. If you put other similar resurrection from the dead accounts and
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         (continued…) My reply continues: “And if the source of that hope of eternal life is not the Bible, then where else would you look to find out about heaven? What other sources do you have? Is there any evidence of any other dead person coming back to life? I have not heard of any
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         Christians are to proclaim Jesus Christ as “the way the truth and the life” (John 14:6). This raises questions and objections these days. In 2004 this issue made the news with the controversy over Mel Gibson’s film, The Passion of the Christ.  There are some things I really like about that movie. It
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Storm on the Sea of Galilee, Rembrandt, 1633 ————     I was visiting Hilda in the care center. Hilda has had many health problems over the last several years, but her strong faith sustains her, and she is usually in good spirits and content to be at the care center.  So I was surprised to
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