II Kings 2:11-12a  —  As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.  Elisha saw this and cried out, “My father!  My father!  The chariots and horsemen of Israel!”  And Elisha […]
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Fanny Crosby (1820-1915), blind rescue mission worker Phoebe Knapp  (1839-1908), wife of one of the founders and second president of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company —————————————————-    Fanny Crosby and Phoebe Knapp lived on opposite sides of the track and were of very different dispositions.  Fanny Crosby lost her sight as an infant, lived in
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By Eric Metaxas at: http://www.breakpoint.org  (February 19, 2016) ———————————–    “Ben Hur,” “The Robe,” “The Ten Commandments,” “Quo Vadis?”—who can forget the golden age of biblical films?  But that was the 1950s, and this is 2016.    Biblically based movies these days often comes across as, well, less than inspired.  Writers and directors
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A Canine’s Understanding of Physics By John R. Erickson posted at http://www.worldmag.com February 20, 2016 —————————-    In high school I didn’t do well in math and science.  Part of the reason was that I had an artistic temperament and no aptitude for numbers.  I was also a lazy student, cared little about grades,
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WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN? by Ada Habershon, 1907; music by Charles Gabriel There are loved ones in the glory Whose dear forms you often miss. When you close your earthly story, Will you join them in their bliss? Chorus: Will the circle be unbroken By and by, Lord, by and by? There’s a better
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   Johnny Cash (1932-2003) recorded almost one-hundred albums in his long career.  Of all those many albums, he said his favorite was the last one he did, released just a few months before he died.  None of his best-known songs are on this album, none of the songs in that album were written by
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   (…continued)  It is no wonder that down through the ages one of the main items on the agenda for philosophy and religion has been this whole area of the relationship between the spirit and the flesh.  Plato gave birth to the whole study of philosophy with the thought that you could think your
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     Rich Mullins (1955-1997)was an American contemporary Christian singer and songwriter.  He was born in Richmond, Indiana.     Mullins was best known for his worship songs Awesome God and Sometimes by Step, both of which have been embraced as modern classics by many Christians.  Some of his albums were considered
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   Francis Rous (1579-1659), an English lawyer and churchman, reworked the words of the twenty-third Psalm into a wonderful hymn, “The Lord’s My Shepherd.”  His adaptation of the Psalm has been revised into many different forms, and has been put to many different tunes, and sung in many different ways.  The link below
Painting above: The Empty Tomb, Mikhail Nesterov (1862-1942) ————————– ALLELUIA!  CHRIST IS RISEN! CHRIST IS RISEN, INDEED!  ALLELUIA! ———————-    Christians all over the world begin their Easter worship services with those words.  Alleluia, also spelled Hallelujah, is a Biblical word of praise that has become very well known in recent years because of a
