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Home – here or there?
It’s good to be home! For 12 days, I enjoyed taking in splendid views from soaring mountains in Colorado. Worshipping with thousands of Believers at the Assemblies of God General Council in Denver last week left my heart full to… Continue reading
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Submitted? Is there a purpose?
For our present troubles are quite small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us an immeasurably great glory that will last forever! So we don’t look at the troubles we can see right now; rather, we look… Continue reading
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"Don’t sweat the small stuff"
… and it’s all small stuff! Richard Carlson wrote a book using that title. I have not read it, but I think I should. Did you ever notice how quickly trivial matters take over in life, how much time we… Continue reading
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Richer than Croesus
I woke up today feeling incredibly wealthy. No, I didn’t win Mega-Millions. (That would be fun, wouldn’t it?) My retirement account has not grown very much, if at all, in this last quarter. My bank account is balanced, but certainly… Continue reading
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"When peace like a river" …what peace?
Ben Franklin’s maxim about the inevitability of death and taxes could well be re-written to include a third inevitable experience in life: Conflict! It’s everywhere – politics, religion, church, school, local pub, homes, among friends. Surely there is a time… Continue reading
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"I can’t hear you while that gun is pointed at my head."
According Doug Pollock (Outreach, August, 2005 issue) as American forces moved through the city of Najah in April, 2003, rumors spread that the soldiers were going to desecrate a mosque. An angry crowd of Iraqi civilians gathered and bloodshed seemed… Continue reading
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Holy War!
In her column, Connie Schultz reports, “St. John’s Reformed United Church of Christ is a 225-year-old church in rural Middlebrook, Va. On Wednesday, the outgoing message on the church phone still invited you to buy tickets for May’s spaghetti supper,… Continue reading
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Raise the standard!
One of my favorite Scripture stories is that of Daniel – whose Hebrew name means “God is my Judge.” Most likely from a family of prominence in Judah, he was swept up in the first Assyrian invasion and taken to… Continue reading
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Living with Plan ‘B’
Robert Burns, the 18th century Scottish poet, wrote of the poor mouse whose nest was torn up by the farmer’s plow. “The best laid schemes o’ mice and menGang aft a-gley, (go oft awry)And leaves us naught but grief and… Continue reading
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