Suffering: no matter what, we can’t seem to get away from it!
Suffering
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Ron Clarke
Natural Talent, Spiritual Gifts
Talents. Spiritual gifts. No one is without them! The time to serve is…now!
The response
We are ALL called by God. What will YOUR response be?
Do Your Prayers Hit the Ceiling?
"God bestows many things on us out of his liberality, even without our asking for them. But that he wishes to bestow certain things on us at our asking is for the sake of our good, that we may acquire confidence in having recourse to God, and that we may recognize in...
Wasted Words
"Words are things, and a small drop of ink falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." (Lord Byron 1788-1824).The Parable of the Sower (see Matthew 13:3-9) is a good example of wasted seeds, and Jesus likens them to...
Changes
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." (Hebrews 13:8 NIV)"An Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the...
Patience
"Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work." (Peter Marshall 1902–1949)Why do we always seem to be in such an all-fired hurry? Why, when we get behind the wheel of a car does our personality change? Why do we drum our...
Fear
"God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst . . . will be quiet in the midst of alarm." (F. B. Meyer 1847–1929)In these frightening times when our well-ordered life is beset by trouble, what are we to do? The...
God and the Pandemic
"For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name" (The Apostle Paul, from Ephesians 3:14)When I was 17 years of age I contracted a serious streptococci infection. For several weeks I was in an infectious...
God’s Protection
"This is a wise, sane Christian faith: that a man commit himself, his life, and his hopes to God; that God undertakes the special protection of that man; that therefore that man ought not to be afraid of anything" (George MacDonald 1824–1905)In these difficult...