Above:  Pharaoh’s daughter finds the infant Moses while Miriam watches from a distance. —————————-    (…continued) Moses is thus not only saved from certain death, but he is allowed to live in the palace.  His own mother is hired to care for him and will be paid out of the king’s treasury to […]
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Above:Â The small passageway and door to the State box seats at Ford’s Theater **************************** Â Â Â John Parker had the worst seat in the theater. Â He was attending a popular comedy and could hear the audience roaring with laughter. Â He could hear most of the lines being said, so sometimes he knew what everyone
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From Things Not Seen, by Jon Bloom, pages 77-80, 2005. “FAILURE DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THE LAST WORD: DEMAS, MARK, AND FAILURE” —————————————-    Demas and Mark are contrasts in failure. One provides us a word of warning, the other a word of hope. And as people who stumble in many ways (James 3:2),
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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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Pictured above: John Wanamaker (1838-1922) ——————- By Robert J. Morgan in One Hundred Bible Verses That Made America, 2020, pages 246-248. ———————————————- Matthew 6:33 — (Jesus said), “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” ————————————    As an adolescent, John Wanamaker took
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Above: Henri Nouwen (1932-1996) Catholic priest, Harvard professor, Best-selling author, Direct-caregiver ———————- From “Low Pay, Long Hours, No Applause” by Phililp Yancey, Christianity Today magazine, November 18, 1988, page 80. —————————-    Henri Nouwen: Adam is a 25-year-old man who cannot speak, cannot dress or undress himself, cannot walk alone, and cannot eat without
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Above painting:  Saint Sebastian pleads with Jesus for the life of a gravedigger afflicted by plague during the Plague of Justinian. (Josse Lieferinxe, c. 1497–1499) ————————————– By John Stonestreet and Shane Morris, March 24, 2020, at: http://www.breakpoint.org    We aren’t the first Christians to face times of plague and pestilence. History tells of several devastating
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By Randy Alcorn, posted January 24, 2020 at: http://www.epm.org ———————-    One of the best-known photographs from the Vietnam War is a Pulitzer Prize–winning picture of a young burn victim running in terror, arms outstretched, after a napalm bomb was dropped on her village. After months of hospitalization and multiple surgeries, nine-year-old Phan Thi
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By Randy Alcorn, in his December 2, 2019 blog at: http://www.epm.org ———————    In my book Giving Is the Good Life, I tell the story of ten-year-old Riley and how she experienced the happiness of giving. A few years ago, while shopping online for a bike as a present for her dad, Riley and
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By Sandra P. Aldrich, adapted from her book Living Through the Loss of Someone You Love (1990, Regal) —————————————— Â Â Â Â My husband, Don, had always been in charge of the car maintenance, so after his death to cancer, I was too exhausted to think about our station wagon’s balding tires. Â Â Â Â But one afternoon, a
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