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"Mission Possible" is a book by Hans Christian which gives an account of his Christian missions into Russia and western European countries. He smuggled bibles into these countries and there is one account of him smuggling a family out of a country where several...
"Movin' on Up" is the theme song of the television sitcom "The Jeffersons" where George Jefferson worked very hard with his dry cleaning business so that he could move his family to a "deluxe apartment in the sky". There have been many through the ages and still are...
If there is anything the humdrum of our daily living has taken away from us, it's the opportunity to think and the chance to meditate on the wonders of God. (Psalm 77:11-15) "I will remember the works of the LORD; surely I will remember Your wonders of old; I will...
"These trials are to test your faith, to show that it is strong and pure." (1 Peter 1:7 NLT) It's hard for us to perceive that God uses adversity for our good. However, I have a glimpse of this understanding as I think about the time I worked at the clinic...
“Thanks be to God – through Jesus Christ our Lord!” (Rom. 7:25). They were everywhere. In the cereal boxes, crawling over the countertops, drowning in the sinks, buried in the sofas, falling from the ceiling . . . It seemed like the more I squished, the...
"But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves." (James 1:22 NKJV) Last Sunday God talked to me in an amazing way. I had ordered an audio CD about a terrific sermon two weeks before, only to discover that instead of having just 1 sound track, it...
"Let us start rebuilding." (Neh 2:18) Do you know of anything that needs to be rebuilt? Nehemiah did. The walls around Jerusalem! And he felt this so keenly about this, that He set out to do something about it! First he spent time in...
Some dear old friends of mine returned for a visit with me this evening. There were so many of them ,in fact, that they wouldn’t all fit into my house. We had our reunion in my backyard then. It was only fitting too since that is where we have had all our best times...
This is the 8th and final lesson from the short series focusing on what Israel's earliest leaders, the judges, have to teach us. Today's leadership lesson is the second from one of Israel's more well-known judges, Samson . . .If anything could be said of Samson's...
"All the brothers here send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss." (1 Cor 16:20 NIV) Life’s biggest lessons aren’t learned all at once. They are taught and learned time and time again over years and years. I realized this today when I was with my...
Mat 27:14 "Jesus kept silence--not a word from his mouth. The governor was impressed, really impressed." (The Message) Today's message may seem contradictory to what you've always believed. Most of us need to actually "say" something to be encouraging. But I'd like to...
It was the very next day, and it was the coldest day so far this year, with temperatures, considering the wind chill, dipping down as low as –27º C. “You’re crazy!” I muttered to myself as I turned off the main road to run into the cemetery. “You should have learned...
“For a child to become clean, something else must become dirty.” Laws of Parenting, #2 I read the previous statement in an email recently and as I considered it among the others statements I could not help but realize how true this was. It was meant to be humorous and...