  One evening, years ago, I went outside to drive the car into the old garage next to our house. It was one of the coldest and windiest nights of that winter, but I hadn’t put on a cap or gloves because I was going to be out there for only a minute. I […]
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“Prayer: As Simple As…” NOTE TO READER: Sundays (at least for a while) I will be posting a one hour video in two parts: Part One will be a worship service, and Part Two will be something else. The video is directly below this text. Below the video on this page is the Order of
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“What to Do When Jesus is Too Late to Help” by Joshua Rogers, posted November 2, 2020, at http://www.joshuarogers.com There’s a line of an old Southern Gospel song I’ve been repeating in my head recently: “When He’s four days late, He’s still on tiiiiiiime!” I probably heard the song at church 25 years ago when
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   Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was a journalist and social activist.  Her parents rarely attended church, but Dorothy became active in an Episcopal church when she was a teenager.  She joined the Catholic church at the age of 30.  Along with Peter Maurin she founded the Catholic Worker Movement, which combined direct aid for the
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A story told by Tom Housholder, pastor/evangelist in the former American Lutheran Church.  The story took place in the 1950’s in  Housholder’s first congregation.  I heard him tell this story when I was on internship in Sisseton, South Dakota in 1979. —————————    Elmer lived the life of a hermit in a remote cabin
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“Praying All the Way to the Bank,” by Philip Yancey, posted May 18,2020 at: http://www.philipyancey.com ———————- As the statistics on illness and death due to COVID-19 keep rising, the economic statistics keep falling. In March the stock market lost more than $11 trillion in value, and has been yo-yoing ever since. While the more fortunate
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By John Piper, posted May 29, 2020 at: http://www.desiringgod.org . For 44 years John Piper has made his home in Minneapolis, a city now on fire with riots and unrest. He offers this prayer to God in the midst of the turmoil. Piper is the founder of Desiring God Ministries and chancellor of Bethlehem College
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First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Durham, North Carolina —————————- From Can the Pandemic Be an Answered Prayer? by Rosaria Butterfield at: http://www.desiringgod.org Rosaria Butterfield is former tenured professor of English at Syracuse University. She is married to Rev. Kent Butterfield, pastor of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Durham, North Carolina. Her story is told
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    (…continued) I’m not saying God causes every trouble. It’s not that simple.  But when trouble comes, from whatever source, we do think about God.  Our thoughts do then return to God.    Jesus says, “Blessed are you who hunger now.”  He doesn’t say, “Throw away all your food.”  Food is one of God’s
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Luke 6:20-26 — (Jesus said), “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your
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