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Serve Me, god!
Paula and Randy White started Without Walls, a church in Tampa, Fl, 18 years ago. It grew to mega-status built around a message that most basically says, “God wants you healthy, wealthy, and happy!” The Whites were not subtle about… Continue reading
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Ripples through time
About 70 years ago, Walter Scott walked down the sawdust trail at a tent revival in Truesdale, Iowa to accept Christ. A Danish immigrant who was fond of his liquor and quick to swing a fist, he was transformed! His… Continue reading
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Full faith and trust!
On a trip yesterday, my Tom-Tom®, a GPS unit, indicated that I should turn left off of the highway onto a side road. I did. Soon the side road turned into a gravel road, then a one lane road through… Continue reading
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Contending with Humility
NOVA, a news documentary program on PBS TV, aired a program called,“Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial.” It told the story of the fight in Dover, PA public schools in 2005 over the teaching of Darwinian theory of the origin… Continue reading
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From the top of the mountain
On a clear Summer day in 2005 I drove the twisting road that leads to the top of Pike’s Peak, a mountain in Colorado. The summit is 14,110 feet above sea level! Standing there, like every tourist, I gushed over… Continue reading
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A silly superstition?
A friend died in spite of my faithful prayers. I wondered why. A man told me how he prayed for God’s intervention during that terrible day of 9/11/2001 when New York City was attacked by terrorists. He told me how… Continue reading
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Simply Trusting, not so simple!
My faith is complicated! There are a lot of questions about God, some might even call them doubts, that roll around in my head.Do I doubt that He exists? No.Do I doubt that He is a good God? Not at… Continue reading
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Keep one thing in mind!
“Now, don’t forget….” How many times have you heard that? Our lives are full of responsibilities, big and small. Our brains are stuffed with things we must recall – get the oil changed in the car, pick up shirts at… Continue reading
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Lost or Exchanged?
Guys who are getting married often joke about losing their freedom. “She owns me now,” they moan, half seriously. It is true that a married person is no longer just ‘me!’ They now live as ‘we.’ If a married man… Continue reading
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"Give me good guts, please, Lord!"
I’m very sorry about AIDS orphans in Africa, starvation produced by poverty in Zimbabwe, and tyranny in North Korea, but, what can I do about these things? I just want to turn off the news! Yes, I am experiencing some… Continue reading