   Are you a loser? If you believe in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, Ted Turner would say you are. Do you remember Ted Turner?    Multi-billionaire Ted Turner was a major player in the business, sports, and entertainment world in the 1980’s and 90’s. He was an early visionary and […]
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From Peculiar Speech, by William Willimon, Eerdmans Publishing, 1992, pp. 14-15 (edited). —————————– Romans 6:3-8  —  Don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?  We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead
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Isaiah 57:18-19 — “I have seen their ways, but I will heal them,” (says the Lord). “I will guide them and restore comfort to Israel’s mourners, creating praise on their lips. Peace, peace, (Shalom, Shalom) to those far and near,” says the Lord. “I will heal them.” Shalom is the Hebrew word for ‘peace’ (and much
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 From The Strong-willed Child, by Dr. James Dobson, 1978, pages 181-182.    My daughter has a pet hamster (uncreatively named ‘Hammy’) who has a passion for freedom.  He spends a portion of every night gnawing on the metal bars of his cage and forcing his head through the trap door.  Recently I sat watching
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AN OLD STORY:    A caravan settled for the night, and the servant tending the camels came to report to the chief.    “Are all the camels tied for the night?” asked the chief.    “I tied up all the camels, except for my own,” replied the servant.  “So great is my faith
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Above photo:Â C. S. Lewis (left) with Paddy Moore (right) in World War I, 1917. C. S. Lewis wrote this letter after the aged Mrs. Moore (who he calls his ‘mother’) went to live in a nursing home. Â Mrs. Moore was the mother of Edward (Paddy) Moore, a friend of Lewis’s who was killed in
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Wisdom from the writings of Gerhard Frost (1909-1987). Frost was a Lutheran pastor, poet, and seminary professor. ********************    Where forgiveness and salvation are at stake, I must not consult my fluctuating feelings. When I say this, I am reminded of my childhood days along the banks of a little local stream, the Riceford
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   Does everything happen for a reason? Maybe. We often hear that said, and perhaps you have said it yourself. But we should ask what we mean by that. Are we implying that there is a divine purpose in everything? What does that mean? Does it mean God causes everything to happen for a
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Joni Eareckson Tada (1949- ) was injured in a diving accident in 1967, and has been a quadriplegic ever since. She has survived stage 3 breast cancer and a malignant tumor. Now at age 76 she lives with unrelenting, severe pain from arthritis. She has had many reasons to doubt the wisdom and goodness of
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Matthew 7:24-27 — (Jesus said), “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.  The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the
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