The country western hit Believe by Brooks and Dunn is by itself enough for a meditation, so I do not have much to add. The song was written by Ronnie Dunn and Craig Wiseman. It was released in October 2005 on the Hillbilly Delux album. Believe won the 2006 Country Music […]
SPIRIT IN THE SKY by Norman Greenbaum, 1969 When I die and they lay me to rest Gonna go to the place that’s the best When I lay me down to die Goin’ up to the spirit in the sky Goin’ up to the spirit in the sky That’s where I’m gonna go when I
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By Don Sweeting, from his December 19, 2013 blog at http://www.donsweeting.wordpress.com Sweeting serves as the president of Reformed Theological Seminary (Orlando, Florida) It always intrigues me that the best Christmas stories are filled with traces of the gospel. That’s true of A Christmas Carol, It’s A Wonderful Life, the story of St.
From a sermon by Lancelot Andrewes, English bishop and scholar, (1555-1626) The angel told the shepherds that the child born in the city of David was ‘a Savior…’ His name was Jesus, which means ‘God will save.’ And surely, there is no joy in the world like the joy of a man that
By Max Dunnam, from his book This Is Christianity One day a woman came to see the famous plastic surgeon Dr. Maxwell Maltz about her husband. She told the doctor that her husband had been injured while attempting to save his parents from a burning house. He could not rescue them. They both
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From Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis …Among the Jews there suddenly turns up a man who goes about talking as if He was God. He claims to forgive sins. He says He has always existed. He says He is coming to judge the world at the end of time. Now let us
189) Was Jesus Only a Great Teacher? Read More »
By Phil Robertson, in Happy, Happy, Happy, pages 189…195f, Copyright, 2013. Phil Robertson began making duck calls in 1972 and has built the Duck Commander Company into a multi-million dollar international family business. He is the patriarch of the Robertson family which is featured on the popular A&E television reality show Duck
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