Ecclesiastes 7:10 says, “Do not ask, ‘Why were the old days better than these?,’ for it is not wise to ask such questions.” Do you ever ask that or wonder that? Do you, perhaps, as the question implies, just take for granted that things were indeed better in the ‘good old […]
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Amy Grant’s 2013 album How Mercy Looks From Here contains the song Greet the Day. This song was inspired a prayer Grant heard years ago. Today’s meditation contains the lyrics to the song, a link to the video, and the simple little prayer the song is based on. GREET THE DAY By Amy Grant and Cindy
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Pictured above: Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Frank Sinatra in 1961. ************************************* “I’m not unmindful of man’s seeming need for faith; I’m for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniel’s.” –Frank Sinatra (1915-1998), quoted in Frank Sinatra: My Father, by Nancy Sinatra, 1986, p. 201 —————————————— John
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By James Lasher, October 3, 2024 article. ************************************** Country music superstar Luke Bryan is known for his chart-topping hits and energetic performances, but his latest album takes a heartfelt turn, offering a glimpse into his personal faith and the pain he’s endured over the years. In the final track of “Mind of a Country Boy,”
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By Rick Warren at: http://www.pastorrick.com Heaven changes everything about how you live today. If you’re headed to Heaven, then that reality should impact how you live here on earth. Your value system changes. Instead of living for the here and now, you’ll live for eternity. You can also live knowing your future
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A friend of mine once described to me a way that he would pray sometimes without words. Instead of using words, he prayed in images, or, I should say, he imagined himself right in a Bible story with Jesus. So if he was feeling overwhelmed by his troubles, he would close his eyes
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John Fogerty (1945- ) was watching television late one night and came across the 1941 movie The Devil and Daniel Webster, based on a 1936 short story by Stephen Vincent Benet. It is an intense movie, filled with temptation by the devil himself, all sorts of wickedness, ruin, death, hell, and, a violent
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Pictured above: The Jordan River in the Judean Wilderness. ——————————– Mark 1:1-8 — The beginning of the good news about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God, as it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way; a voice of one calling in the
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What a Wonderful World was written by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss. It was first recorded by Louie Armstrong (1901-1971) and released as a single in 1967. Armstrong’s recording was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. These lyrics do not mention God as the Creator of this ‘wonderful world,’ but I
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(Images above: Portraits of Christ by Rembrandt) NOTE TO READERS: Thank you for reading. I hope these daily readings are helping you “get to know Jesus” a little better. I have been doing these daily meditations for a long time; every day for seven years while I was still working as
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