January, 2017

• 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 ...

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• 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 ...

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• 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”. ...

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• 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. ...

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• 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 ...

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• 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 ...

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• 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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• 23 January

  We Need God To Tell The Difference Between Good and Evil

  

  Without God we do not know goodness, He is the standard by which we determine whether something is good or evil, He alone is the law-giver and informs our morality. That moral code is found only in the Holy Bible. I know a lot of atheists will object to me saying ...

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• 21 January

  The Most Important Decision You Will Ever Make

  

  On Christmas Eve, around 7 p.m., I received a frantic phone call from my mother, she informed me that my grandmother had just died. My grandmother lived her 88 years on this earth apart from God, until about four months ago. My grandmother surrendered her life to Jesus Christ in ...

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• 20 January

  Even The Most Evil Of Us Can Be Forgiven

  

  The other day I was talking with an atheist who brought up a “study” that says Christians have had more abortions, are the largest religious segment of the prison population and have high rates of pornography addiction. He was trying to claim some kind of moral high ground, but I ...

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