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Christmas is where "the search for Truth ends in the birth of one special child." This is a tiny statement from a good message that came through on my computer. The whole message was good but something about this sentence rang bells - Christmas bells, bells of good...
Why are some prayers not answered? Someone once shared with me how his prayers seemed to rise no higher than the ceiling of his house. He felt God had forsaken him. Do you sometimes feel like that? Well, there are a number of reasons why our prayers may seem at best,...
The most frightening text in the Bible is in the Lord’s Prayer – "Forgive us as we forgive those who sin against us." When we pray it, we ask for forgiveness to be measured, we determine how much we receive, and we ask for exactly the same amount that we give to...
I form a mental picture of Mary’s pain as she watched the agony of her Son’s death. When I read of His crucifixion in any of the Four Gospels, chills race up and down my spine. I cannot imagine or fathom how her heart ached, especially knowing His innocence of the...
"That night all the people of the community raised their voices and wept aloud. All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly and said to them, 'If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this desert! Why is the Lord bringing us to this land...
"And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God in the middle of the trees in the garden. And the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, where are you?"...
"For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God". (Romans 3:23) My computer and I have a 'love/hate' relationship. I love it when the computer works and hate it when it doesn't. Recently Prof. Computer gave up the ghost completely making it necessary for me to...
Tonight I felt real care and concern from an animal. I will tell you the details as they progressed. It is all about a tiny little feline, whose given name is simply, Precious. There is no way to show you with words, the way her tail is too fluffy, and she tosses it...
Psalm 24:1 "The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it." I want to make a banner of this verse and super-impose it on a photograph of a hungry child in Appalachia. I want to be reminded that the least in our community, for...
"This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us--whatever we ask--we know that we have what we asked of him." (1 John 5:14,15) Every teaspoon of water is packed full...
"I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow." (1 Cor. 3:6) I am sure you have seen this – weeds or little flowers pushing their way up to the sunshine in a crack of a sidewalk, driveway or road. Sometimes I wonder how they thrive so well, when things...
Every Easter since 1823 there has been an egg fight in Peters Hollow in Northeast Tennessee. No, it isn't like some places have tomato festivals and throw rotten tomatoes at each other. It started out with local farmers seeing whose hens laid eggs with the hardest...
"Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them: If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment. If he comes alone, he shall go out alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then...