Image above: Head of an Old Woman, 1563, Pieter Brueghel the Elder (Flemish, 1525-1569). ********************* Job 34:17-28: 17 Can someone who hates justice govern? Will you condemn the just and mighty One? 18 Is he not the One who says to kings, ‘You are worthless,’ and to nobles, ‘You are wicked,’ 19 who shows no partiality to princes […]
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(…continued) Doug and Gary were having coffee on a Monday morning. Doug said, “I was trying to find something on the radio on my way to the golf course yesterday, and I happened to run across one of these hellfire and damnation preachers. I kept listening just for laughs, but it turned out
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With such huge swings in the stock market every day now, we could all become billionaires in no time at all– if only we were able to look into the future. That would never work, of course, because if we could all look into the future, there would be no such thing as
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I once asked my grandfather why his grandfather left Germany in 1875 to come to America. Grandpa said that the old emigrant told him that Germany was always getting into wars and drafting all the young men, and he did not want to die as a soldier in some fight that did not
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By Washington D.C. attorney and writer Joshua Rogers ( http://www.joshuarogers.com ) ——————————- It was the crack of dawn and I couldn’t stop looking over at the woman a few feet away from me on the beach. I had come to watch the sunrise and she was getting on my nerves. The
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From The Scarlet Thread, by Gardener C. Taylor (1918- 2015, pictured above), p. 100f. Preaching on Galatians 6:7-9 ——————– We are willing and ready to admit to the presence of law, governing law, in every area of our existence except in the part we call moral and spiritual. It would take a prize
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By Greg Morse (…continued) Oh, the fearsome, wonderful love of God. This God is so serious about having his own that he will starve them now to feed them forever, kill them now to keep them forever. His enemies may call him a monster, but his saints sing, “Because your steadfast love is
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By Greg Morse (…continued) Many are content with God’s love consisting in only tender kindness and unbroken gentleness. They wish for his love to be wholly devoted to their immediate happiness — however they choose to seek it. Tenderness seems to be the unimpeachable disposition some imagine of God. Tender toward our dreams.
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We hear much about how ‘God is love.’ In fact, from some, that is all we hear about God. But where would anyone ever get such a notion? We would not learn that from just looking at the world around us. If we just look at the world, we don’t even see God,
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“What Do You Think of the Humans?” by Chris Brekke, posted September 6, 2020, on his brand new website/blog Seasoned Hope, at: http://www.pcbrek2020.wordpress.com Chris, a good friend of mine, is a retired Lutheran pastor who has written several books including Joke Devotions (1, 2, and 3), Got a Question? (1 and 2), and Faith Appetizers.
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