   (…continued) In I Corinthians 10:11 Paul is referring to some Old Testament examples, listing several examples of disobedience and punishment.  Paul then said, “These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us.”  These are examples of what not to do.  The Bible also, like Larry Elder (in […]
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   Syndicated columnist Larry Elder once wrote a column describing a visit to his doctor.  Larry lives in a big city so he had no way of knowing anything about his doctor, outside of his occasional appointments.  Larry says he goes into those appointments like he goes into any other situation; talking loud, cracking
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Millard Fuller was the founder of ‘Habitat for Humanity.’  In his book Love in the Mortar Joints, 1980, (pages 70, 71) he tells this story from the early of the organization, when people were still trying to understand what he was doing. ——————————    Even though many people throughout the United States understood and supported
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By Eric Metaxas, July 23, 2015 blog at:  www.breakpoint.org  (adapted)    Jesus said that Christians have the opportunity to glorify God by their deeds in full view of a watching world:  “Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”
Above painting: There Was No Room For Them In the Inn, by Eugene Higgins  (1874-1958) ******************************* From A Sermon for Christmas Day, Luke 2:1-14; by Martin Luther (1483-1546), on Luke 2:1-14    See to it that you do not find pleasure in Christmas only as a story, for that is only transient; neither regard it
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Mostly from John Stonestreet’s blog, February 10, 2015 at:  http://www.breakpoint.org    In Seoul, the capital of South Korea, hundreds of infants are abandoned on the streets every year.  The problem became so severe that one Korean pastor decided to take unprecedented action.    It’s a story that’s now the subject of an award-winning
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As we begin another year, Philip Yancey reminds us: Grace hasn’t vanished. Posted January 15, 2015, at:  www.christianitytoday.com    After listening to several dark reviews of 2014; recapped news of the beheadings in Iraq, the Ebola epidemic, racial strife, airplanes crashed or missing, ongoing violence in Syria, Afghanistan, Ukraine, and several African countries– it’s
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   We who are working in God’s vineyard here on earth ought not be jealous of the gifts or rewards belonging to others.  The Lord will do as he sees fit and we can only say “Thank you.” —————————————    “My last word to God’s children is this:  what does it matter, after
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   Based on a short story by Leo Tolstoy (Painting: Working Shoemaker, Pytor Konchalovsky, 1926)    There lived in the city of Marseilles, a hundred years ago, an old shoemaker, loved and honored by all his neighbors, who affectionately called him ‘Father Martin.’    One Christmas he sat alone in his little
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Painting above: Nighthawks, 1942, Edward Hopper (1882-1967) —————————- From the book The Kingdom of God Is a Party, 1990, by Tony Campolo (1935-2024)    If you live on the East Coast and travel to Hawaii, you find that there is a time difference that makes three o’clock in the morning feel like nine; so
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