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"And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'" (Matt 22:39 NKJV) "Good fences make good neighbors", the television commentator said, misquoting Robert Frost for the millionth time in my memory. It made me wonder if the esteemed poet was not...
It was almost ten years ago when I experienced a season in my life called "The empty nest syndrome." At that time our church receptionist asked me if I would be interested in reading Scripture to a homebound lady. She had Multiple Sclerosis and was unable to leave her...
"I pray …. That all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you." (John 17:20,21) A couple buttons snapped off in the laundry. As I was sewing them back on I began to think about how the Holy Spirit uses a sewing stitch to ‘string’ together the...
I am told there is a place on the Western Australian coast where the full moon rising over mud flats causes an optical illusion. From March to October each year, on three successive nights in each month, the full moon rising over the mud flats, creates the illusion of...
I took my boys, 5 and 8, down to the Milwaukee Lakefront and was teaching them to skip rocks. It is so satisfying to see one skip off into the distance and disappear from view, riding the waves. Ok, so I have never been that good...but two or three skips in a row...
There is a special shrub growing in the garden, heavily entwined with another plant and they were at the stage of developing new growth. They looked the same at that stage, the leaves were the same shape, the stems were the same, and I really could not tell them...
In December, 2003the youth at my church presented the musical "The Surprising Christmas Pageant ( The Story of the Birth of Christ Told with Humor, Mystery and Awe)" by Dennis Hartin. In this musical an angel went to Mary and told her the message from God about her...
"Submit yourselves then to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you." (James 4:7) I prayed to the Lord, “deliver me from the snare of the fowler, from Satan and his angels!” I was under attack! How dare he come near me! (Funny how we get so self righteous and...
It is easy to convince yourself that God doesn't care about the little things and that we shouldn't even be bothering Him with such trivia. After all, He IS God of the universe. He doesn't have time to worry about every detail of our lives! But God does care about...
In our series on "Balance" and "Imbalance" (an item straight out of Ripley's Book of Believe it or not?) Of God, one remarkable feature, which characterized our Savior's ministry on Earth, was that of balance. He hated sin but loved sinners. He was all for paying...
Continuing with the series on our "Publicly Speaking" God, we come to yet another key area of our Christian faith, where the good Lord has acted publicly. SALVATION… Consider these words of imprisoned Apostle Paul, as he stood up and made a bold defense of his faith...
Francis Schaeffer is quoted as saying ‘One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary. To be conservative today is to miss the whole point, for conservatism means standing...
Let me relate a bizarre yet true story, before I get started with my main theme. Before that… those of us who don't know about, Charlie Chaplin, let's put up our hands? Well, not many hands would go up, for most of us know that he was a huge movie star in the...