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Wait a minute. "The Little Drummer Boy" was a religious song. Sort of. And "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" and "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" are pretty generic. But what is a song about Santa doing amongst a series of devotionals on Christmas Carols? That's what...
Continuing with the series on "Miracles' within miracles" today, we come into yet another "silent" miracle occurring alongside a "loud" one… STANDING TALL ON A CRUMBLING WALL!!! If Goshen without a wall was safe in God's hands, then the city of Jericho despite a...
In the penultimate part of the series on the Parable of talents, today we shall focus on two themes… "N0" success, no problem: "His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things'" (Matt 25:21) Wheelchair runners in...
"O little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie..." So goes the famous popular Christmas carol sung in many Churches during the Christmas season, heralding the birth of the Savior. For those with a flair for history, this touching hymn was penned by Rector...
I walked down into an isolated part of the garden where we had planted some trees and shrubs. They had been there for a couple of years now and I wanted to see how they were doing. The seasons had been good and the young trees were thriving. A couple were as tall as I...
So you have your password. It has unique qualities and it has been installed in your mind for a lifetime of use. It promises you a whole new lifestyle so you need to learn how you are to relate to your new status. You ask where, when, why and how do I use it? What...
A Soliloquy Who am I? I, even I, breathe the breath of fire and stir up dust and death. I have stripped the forests of their olden cover and bared their soil to the drying sun and burnt to crust their fertile glades. I have opened windows of the heavens and broken...
Scripture "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." (Rom 12:21) Observation We can choose how we respond to evil, we are not helpless pawns but are children of the King. We can decide not to be overcome by evil, it does not have to swamp us. Evil may,...
"This is what the LORD says—he who made a way through the sea . . . I am making a way in the wilderness." (Isaiah 43:16, 19) The river was higher than usual. A great amount of rainfall through the year had caused it to swell its banks. This fall the water wasn’t...
"And the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.'" (Matt 25:40, NKJV) I was sitting in a chair, sipping iced tea out of a thermos, and trying to stay awake. The...
"Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, 'Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.' And God granted his request." (1 Chronicles 4:10) It was great to be away on vacation, away...
"Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' Or 'What shall we drink?' Or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His...
"And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself." (John 12:32-33 NKJV) I have never attended a bible study group, nor have I been to church. My parents are not Christians, in fact, no one in my family is. I used to be an atheist. A firm...