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Suppose three total strangers knock on your front door. Two are nice and decent people, but one is out to get you. The problem is that you do not know who is who. Would you invite all three of them into your home? You might rather take some time to ...
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February, 2017
January, 2017
- 31 January
Is Your Marriage Facing Love’s Great Fall?
According to the US Census Bureau and the American Psychological Association, 40 to 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce. The reason most given is—irreconcilable differences. This means whatever the problems that this life brought to them, they could not find a way to solve them together. The overwhelming ...
Read More » - 31 January
Love’s Great Fall
He once carved a heart in a tree. An arrow pierced the heart. His love I knew. It had pierced this heart of mine. This great love; I thought—Was for all time. That tree has long since been cut down. So to, has the love in my heart. Once strong ...
Read More » - 30 January
Are You Asking, “Why Me God?”
Are you thinking why me God? Why do I have to go through so much pain? Why are things so hard? For what purpose must I bear all this pain? Are my tears flowing for no reason? Have you thought about giving up but realized you can’t? No man in ...
Read More » - 27 January
Guard Your Clothes!
The story by Hans Christian Andersen about the proud, showy emperor tells the tale of pride getting the best of a ruler who cared only about his outward appearance and the parading of his many beautiful clothes. Then, when he is swindled by two pretend weavers who feign the creating ...
Read More » - 27 January
Is God Silent During Suffering?
Recently my Japanese friend, a missionary in Japan, asked for prayer about her troubled feeling aroused by the movie, Silence, shot in Taiwan by Hollywood director, Martin Scorsese. According to Time Magazine, “Silence is a somber epic about Jesuit priests struggling to keep their faith in violently anti-Christian 17th century Japan”. ...
Read More » - 26 January
Under A Midnight Sky
I wake up far to soon from my sleeping. And now the darkness begins. It came hiding all of my sin Now I’m just waiting for the Sun. I try to breathe before rays are shared by the morning Sun. I’m quite undone as my confessions come in the night. ...
Read More » - 25 January
God’s Love Can Bring An End To Prejudice
As we enter a new era of leadership in America we are also seeing a time of racial, moral, and religious prejudice. Racial tension is running high. Morality has become based upon personal choice rather than absolute truth. Religious persuasions have too often succumbed to political correctness. A new word ...
Read More » - 25 January
Brave Enough To Stay
The two things most familiar to me were the North Atlantic, and the feeling I’d forgotten something. I stared at Maine’s rocky coast as my boat bobbled over swells toward Cumberland Docks. “Dietrich!” Chappy, my crew captain called. “I’ll get the shrimp out to market and have the boat turned ...
Read More » - 23 January
I Wonder: What Have We Forgotten About Freedom?
I witnessed a rare thing today! It brought tears of joy to my eyes. The whole world witnessed it as well. I wonder! How many in America realize how rare a thing it is to see this celebration of freedom that took place today with our new president’s inauguration? Few ...
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