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The distinct entity, from the body that God desires to save in all mankind, is that man’s future. Man will survive death with joy in God’s heavenly home or misery in condemned doom. Day to day living and building a relationship with Jesus Christ, rewards his future...
"So give orders that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me. My men will work with yours, and I will pay you for your men whatever wages you set. You know that we have no one so skilled in felling timber as the Sidonians." (1 Kings 5:6) There’s a beautiful State Park just 35...
“In the day when I cried out, You answered me, and made me bold with strength in my soul.” (PSALM 138:3) Let us praise God for: · Giving us a home on earth and reserving a home for us in heaven. · His love and mercy, protection and provision. Let us pray for: · Love...
Luke 24:32 Did you ever feel the Lord so near that there was burning in your heart? We walked along discussing all the prophecies we could remember. The day was warm and dusty and we were glad to find a spring at the side of the road where we could stop for a...
If you make an agreement with somebody about something that is to be done, you want it to stick. You don’t want it to come undone half way through so you choose carefully with whom you make an agreement. The strength of the agreement is not in the agreement, it is in...
Here in northeast Tennessee there is a tourist attraction named Bristol Caverns. I don't know how long ago they were found and opened for public tours but I went there several times during my elementary school days on field trips. It has the normal stalactites and...
I was pouring water into a trough just over the fence in a neighbour's paddock. Drought had taken away the water supply for his sheep but we have an underground flow and could keep the trough full.Further down the hill, among the rocks, his sheep heard the water being...
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." (John 13:34-35 NIV) I decided to take it easy today and just do a little work around the...
"So I rebuked the officials and asked them, 'Why is the house of God neglected?' Then I called them together and stationed them at their posts." (Nehemiah 13:11) It was an old Gothic church built in the early part of the eighteenth century. It sat in what was once the...
Bread is one of those essential things. I know its meaning has been stretched to include ‘a meal of any kind’ or ‘food of any kind’ but to me it means what it says. It means ‘bread – loaf of.’ There is nothing more basic and honest and homely than a loaf of warm bread...
Long dry spells and droughts are often broken by savage storms. The soil is fragile because the grass covering has died, leaving the soil naked and exposed to the elements. Topsoil is washed away leaving only hard sub-soil for the next crop and the loose soil around...
"The Spirit and the bride say, 'Come!' And let him who hears say, 'Come!' Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life." (Rev 22:17 NIV) It seems like it takes more and more money to buy fewer and fewer things...
After two early false starts, our pair of Lineolated Parakeets, Splash and Chine, finally came of breeding age. No longer did we discourage them from nesting—not that it had done any good when we DID try to discourage them!—and it didn’t take them long to find the...