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Last night as I was praying I felt the Lord leading me to Psalm 23, One of my mother and my mother-in-law's favorite psalms (Praise God for our faithful heritage!). The words were flowing in my spirit before I arrived at the scripture in my Bible. I knew the words,...
Let me paint a picture of an all-too-common cycle in my life: I stop working out as much as I think I should, then I start letting the healthy eating habits slide too. Now before you get the idea that I am a fitness machine, allow me to clarify. I like to work out...
Carefully I addressed the Christmas card. The name was right, the street and street number were right and the town was definitely right. Inadvertently, the post-code was wrong. One wrong figure in a four-figure code sent the letter spinning off to another town. It...
‘What on earth,’ I thought, ‘is all this talk about “getting real”? What is the obsession with “getting on your island” of a dubious sub-culture? Why should we leave our out-of-date language, our tested culture, and take on other cultural habits just to prove we...
He built a pair of the most beautiful figures imaginable. He made them of his choicest material and then decided to set them aglow with a light from within themselves. He placed the fibres through every finger, toe, limb and body and took them into the garden room...
"I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives, and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor — it is the gift of God." (Eccl 3:12-13 NKJV) Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that, "Though we travel the...
In the concluding part of the series on “LITTLE” big Bethlehem, today after we come to the final dimension of the said subject namely the Prophetical Significance . . . Why did the Messiah make a “touchdown” in Bethlehem in his “Operation salvation”? For those...
He preached faith and he practiced what he preached. So, in the goodness of his heart, he was taking a few groceries to an ‘economically challenged’ family who lived over the creek. He came to the footbridge and saw it was eroded by heavy rain. It was not safe to walk...
Continuing the series on the problem of getting cold-shouldered and the prescribed "love therapy" in this second and concluding part of the series, I want to focus more on the virtue of love. Vis-à-vis other great virtues like faith and hope Apostle Paul puts love at...
"Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another." (1 John 4:11 NKJV) I decided to take my sons for a walk the other day. Autumn was in the air. Rich, delightful reds painted by God’s own hand were coloring some of the trees. Heavenly yellows shining...
"In the morning, oh Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation." (Psalm 5:3) Some people seem to be born “morning people”, and others not. I’m in the “not” group. So even though I kept meaning to walk over and take a...
Ministry. Glorious. Beautiful. Or at least, this is how I have always perceived it. There is perhaps an element of pride in me that is fulfilled by the thought that God would choose me to do His work, and thus, I have been joyfully serving Jesus for the past several...
I listened to the morning news and two things were headlines. The first was violence in society. In addition to violent deaths on roads, domestic violence and world-wide violence which we hear about every day, a gunman had caused multiple deaths and injuries in a...