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Today as I was cleaning my house I was thinking back to when I was a teenager and how I could do nothing all day and be perfectly happy, but now that I am an adult and have more responsibilities, I can’t help but feel restless and unproductive when I spend too much...
"For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away." (Matt 25:29-30 NKJV) When I was a boy our church didn't have a choir so everyone was expected to sing. That didn't bother me...
"And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, 'It is a spirit'; and they cried out for fear. But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, 'Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.' And Peter answered him and said, 'Lord, if it be...
"Jesus said to them, 'My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working.'" (John 5:17) Growing up in a large city, I learned to have many fears. I guess they stayed with me, buried underneath the twists and turns that life takes when you’re...
"But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows." (Luke 12:7) "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." (Luke 12:32) I suffer from a chronic condition...
"The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places." (Hab 3:19 KJV) Another massive snowstorm had hit the mountains of my home. A foot and a half of the white stuff had covered everything. Living...
I had just come in from a shopping trip to town and walked down the hallway shedding my town gear as I went. As I walked past the television, I flicked it on to catch the morning news, half listening as I went. The headlines staccatoed – there was a train disaster in...
I was driving to a town in southern Ontario when I first heard the song. It had a catchy beat and tune, so I turned up the volume. That's when the words drew me in, the words, deep in meaning, rich in their correcting power: "are we caught in the middle!"* I didn't...
To conclude the series on Chile miners' saga, there are two more truths to be "mined"… Celebration… Oh yes, Chile rejoiced, so did the world at large at the safe passage of the 33 miners from "Death to life". Praise God at the "safe passage" of even one sinner from...
"Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?" (Matthew 6:26) Peak color of the trees hadn’t yet arrived, but the crisp, autumn air had. Just made you...
"'I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.' When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the...
In last week's lesson on faith looking at Hebrews 11:11-12, we learned from Abraham that when God promises something, it is for real. We may not really believe, we may try to take things into our own hands, we may even laugh at God, but in the end, if we believe, God...
Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and...