A Stout Faith: The Guinnesses of Ireland Adapted from a March 17, 2014 article by John Stonestreet posted at http://www.breakpoint.org Today is St. Patrick’s Day (posted two days ago)… and I’d like to tell you a story about something genuinely Irish that may surprise you. I’m referring to Guinness stout beer. Very few of […]
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Pictured above: Celtic Cross, Ireland ****************************************** Bringing Christ to the Irish Who am I, Lord, that you should appear to me and call me, so that today among the barbarians I might constantly and everywhere exalt and magnify your name, not only in good fortune, but even in affliction? Whatever befalls me,
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Pictured above: Ruins of St. Patrick’s Church, Wexford, Ireland *************************************** Patrick Escapes, Guided by a Voice And it was there that one night in my sleep I heard a voice saying to me, “…Soon you will depart for your home country.” And again, a short time later, there was a voice saying: “Behold,
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The following introduction to St. Patrick is adapted from the author information at http://www.ccel.org The meditations that follow are an edited paraphrase of the text of The Confession of St. Patrick also at that website. Saint Patrick (420?-March 17, 493?), the patron saint of Ireland, was born somewhere along the west coast of Britain
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By Eric Metaxas at http://www.breakpoint.org , March 11, 2014 Jane Fonda has to be one of the most polarizing people of her generation. Those who are old enough can recall her movie career and can remember her in some roles that were pretty good, and some that were not so good.
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(…continued) The elders stood up in the midst of the people and said, “As we walked in the garden alone, this woman came in with two maids. She shut the garden doors and sent the maids away. Then a young man, who there was hid, came unto her, and lay with her. Then
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Susanna and the Elders, 1647, by Rembrandt (1606-1669) —————————- Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox tradition include this story as an additional chapter in the Old Testament book of Daniel. Protestants and Jews do not include it in their Scriptures. It is a wonderful little story about trusting God and doing what is right. From the
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(continued…) “If you don’t straighten out, Jimmy, God will deal with you,” Grandma Klobuchar would always say. Many years later, after grandma was long dead and ‘Little Jimmy’ had become ‘Famous Jim Klobuchar,’ he still had a lot of straightening out to do. In one area of his life, he was a successful
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Jim Klobuchar was a newspaper columnist for the Minneapolis Tribune from the mid-1960’s to the late 1990’s. He is now 85 years old, retired, and living in the Twin Cities. His daughter Amy represents Minnesota in the United States Senate. Klobuchar has written many books describing his active life and many adventures. He
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From Tramp for the Lord, © 1974, by Corrie ten Boom and Jamie Buckingham, p. 50-53 (continued…) A year later I was in Darmstadt again. My friends had given this man a car with special fixtures so he could drive without legs. He met me at the train station to bring me to
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