1609) Be Still? (b)
(…continued) The book of Job deals with this question more than any other book in the Bible, discussing it for 42 chapters. From near the beginning to almost…
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1609) Be Still? (b)
1608) Be Still? (a)
August 27, 2017, at La Vita Bella nursing home in Dickinson, Texas (all residents were rescued shortly after this photo was posted on social media) ---------------- Sunday's sermon, September 3,…
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1608) Be Still? (a)
1605) God’s Megaphone
------------------------ Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us. We ‘have all we want’ is a…
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1605) God’s Megaphone
1480) “God is Going to Have Some Explaining to Do”
Bob was 58 years old when learned that he had ALS. Over the next five years the disease took his ability to walk, talk, and breathe on his…
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1480) “God is Going to Have Some Explaining to Do”
1453) God’s Justice (part two of two)
A Jewish legend, translated from a small volume published in 1929, Judische Legenden, as told by Else Schubert-Christaller; printed in The Plough Reader, Summer 2001 (adapted). ------------------------------------------ (...continued)…
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1453) God’s Justice (part two of two)
1452) God’s Justice (part one of two)
A Jewish legend, translated from a small volume published in 1929, Judische Legenden, as told by Else Schubert-Christaller; printed in The Plough Reader, Summer 2001 (adapted). ------------------------------------------ Rabbi…
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1452) God’s Justice (part one of two)
1274) How Should God Use His Power?
From Salute to a Sufferer, by Leslie Weatherhead, Abingdon Press, 1962, pages 48-51. In this reading, Weatherhead discusses the age-old question of the goodness of God: IF God is All-powerful…
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1274) How Should God Use His Power?
1267) God Disregards Buddhist Principles
---------------------------- "To free yourself from suffering, free yourself from attachments." --Buddha ---------------------------- By Elizabeth Sunshine, posted September 19, 2016 at: www.breakpoint.org. Sunshine is an MTS student at the University of Notre Dame…
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1267) God Disregards Buddhist Principles
1109) Lamb of God (b)
The Lamb of God, by Francisco de Zurbaran, 1635 ------------------------------ (...continued) Sin is a powerful force in the world, and a lamb is not the first image…
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1109) Lamb of God (b)
1108) The Lamb of God (a)
Indonesia after 2004 tsunami ----------------- On a Sunday morning, the day after Christmas in 2004, the earth’s crust shifted under the Indian Ocean, just west of Indonesia. That…
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1108) The Lamb of God (a)