   (…continued…) What can we say about all this? Do we know anything for sure from the Bible, and if so, what? “Well yes,” God says, “you can know for sure that I will deliver you.”  “God is our deliverer, and happy are they who trust in Him,” says Psalm 40. He will not […]
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   (…continued…) For yet another option, we could say God steps in where and when he wants to deliver people, in order to reward and punish people according to what they deserve. Well, sometimes the Bible says that, as in the Old Testament books of I and II Kings where we are always reading
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   A while back I read a book titled “How the News Makes us Dumb.” The book discusses the problem of how the news has to be entertaining in order to hold an audience, the problem of news being too brief and superficial to be truly informative, and the problem of the news never
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Affliction is God’s shepherd dog to drive us back to the fold.  –Anonymous God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.  –Thomas Watson When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.  –Richard Sibbes God measures out affliction to our need.  –St. John Chrysostom, Homily
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Image above: The death mask of Blaise Pascal  (1623-1662). Pascal, a mathematical genius and inventor, suffered from many ailments and died at the age of 39. He became a Christian as an adult, and is the author of “Pensees”, a collection of thoughts on his faith and the reasons for his conversion. This powerful prayer
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   Following the horror of World War II, the nation of Germany faced a tremendous burden of guilt.  What went wrong with our nation?, they wondered.  Who is to blame for these terrible things that Germany unleashed on the world:  unprovoked aggression on weak and innocent neighbors, a world war, the slaughter of a
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An Old Story:    One day a Chinese farmer’s only horse broke out of the corral and ran away.  The farmer’s neighbors, all hearing of the horse running away, came to the farmer’s house to view the corral.  As they stood there, the neighbors all said, “Oh, what bad luck!”  The farmer replied, “How
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“Learning From Lepers” NOTE TO READER: Sundays (at least for a while) I will be posting a one hour video in two parts: Part One will be a worship service, and Part Two will be something else. The video is directly below this text. Below the video on this page is the Order of Service
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Pictured above: A young Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln ———————————— “The Slow Fires of Misery:  Enduring the Pain of a Flawed Marriage” By John Piper, A Godward Life, pages 33-35, Multnomah, 1997.  Quotes are from “The Struggle for Lincoln’s Soul,” by Mark Noll, in Books and Culture, September/October 1995 issue. ————————————————-    Abraham Lincoln’s marriage was
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“My Siblings Died — And My Dad Sang This Song” by Joshua Rogers, posted August 17, 2020, at: http://www.joshuarogers.com —————    The phone rang and my mom answered. She never imagined the horrific news my grandfather was about to share. My dad’s two children from his first marriage had died in a plane crash.
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