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3343) Steve Job’s Question for His Pastor (3/3)

     (…continued)  Salee learned that Christians feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and we do so because our Lord Jesus has commanded it.  Sam Kinison wondered why the photographer didn’t just give the child a sandwich.  That is what Christians are always doing, all over the world, through international relief organizations and in […]

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3342) Steve Jobs’ Question for His Pastor (2/3)

     (…continued)  I once knew a Cambodian refugee named Salee.  Salee was a young man when the communist dictator Pol Pot came to power in Cambodia in 1975.  Pol Pot was a ruthless tyrant, and over the next four years, two million Cambodians were dead as the result of his rule, many of them murdered

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3341) Steve Jobs’ Question for His Pastor (1/3)

     Steve Jobs was truly one of the greatest geniuses the world has ever known.  He has been called the Henry Ford of our time.  Not only was he a brilliant inventor and innovator, he was also an incredible businessman, marketer, and leader.  Along with a couple friends, he started the Apple Computer Company

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3316) “Viva Cristo Rey!” (2/2)

     (…continued)  Armando Valladares, and many other prisoners in the Cuban prison on the Isle of Pines, were inspired and strengthened in their faith by another prisoner they knew only as “The Brother of Faith.”  ‘The Brother’ was a Protestant minister who, in that ‘hell on earth,’ created a community of living faith in Jesus

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3315) “Viva Cristo Rey!” (1/2)

     Thirty miles off the southwest coast of Cuba is the Isla de Pinos (Island of the Pines).  On this island is the notorious ‘Presidio Modelo’ (Model Prison, pictured above) built in the 1920’s by the president, turned dictator, Gerado Machado.  When someone asked the dictator why he had built it so big, he replied,

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3304) Untouchable

By Max Lucado      There’s one gift your troubles cannot touch: your eternal destiny.      I remember when my father had just retired.  He and mom wanted to visit every national park in their travel trailer.  Then came the diagnosis of ALS, a cruel degenerative disease that affects the muscles.  Within months, the

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3296) Suffering (and Purpose) Produce Endurance

     Mollie Engelhart (above) used to be a top chef and strict vegetarian.  She was also an entrepreneur, owning five vegan restaurants in Los Angeles.  Now she is a cattle rancher in Texas.  It is a long and interesting story.  You can look it up.  There is much on the internet by and about her.

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3284) Who’s the Judge? (2/2)

     (…continued)  One long ago writer who struggled with this issue was John Donne (1572-1631; pictured above).  Donne lived during the reign of King James, the king who authorized the first official (and first legal) translation of the Bible into English (1611).  William Shakespeare was also a contemporary.  Excellent writing and eloquent speaking were much

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3283) Who’s the Judge? (1/2)

      It is common today for people to get angry with God.  It is the preferred voice of many when speaking of or to the Supreme Being.  The world is filled with suffering and pain, and we insist on an explanation from God.  We are the judge and jury, and God is the defendant; and

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3219) Walking God’s Trail

     There is not much to read in today’s meditation, but I am posting some amazing videos if you have the time to view them.      On January 8, 1956, five young American missionaries were speared to death by several members of a remote tribe in Ecuador.  They were attempting to make contact

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