FRIENDSHIP Thank you, Lord, for giving me a friend whose special ways bring so much warmth and beauty to my heart. Whose gentleness and kindness brighten up so many days […]
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WHY THE BIG SECRET The temptation of Jesus was to equate the satisfaction of the crowd with the fulfillment of his mission. And maybe Mark knows that the Church is
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HYPOCRITE A hypocrite is a man who writes a book praising atheism and then prays that it will sell. Leighton Ford
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PRAYER It was 1945. The U. S. Army’s 35th Infantry Division, 137th Infantry, Company I, of which 24- year-old Spencer January was a member, along with several other companies of
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THE COMPANION IN THE CHAIR There was once a pastor who was called to an elderly man’s deathbed. The pastor went to sit in the armchair next to the bed,
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THE ENIGMA OF SUFFERING AND GLORY I got my inspiration for this month’s theme from reading Harold Myra’s new book Living By God’s Surprises (Word, Waco, TX, 1988). Myra is
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HIS PERSECTIVE God at work in the worst of events. I am sitting at the table looking at the bowling-pin lamp Richie made as a schoolboy. It reminds me of
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HOW TO GET RID OF YOUR PASTOR You may want to put this piece in your weekly newsletter or bulletin, if not used in a sermon: 1. Look the pastor
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PRAYER CHANGES PERSPECTIVE Once upon a time – that’s the way all good stories used to begin for children – a monk was walking down a country road. It was
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PRAYER Teach me, good Lord: Not to murmur at multitude of business or shortness of time. Not to magnify undertaken duties by seeming to suffer under them, but to treat
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ONE IMPORTANT GIFT A little girl was saying her prayers a few nights before Christmas when she stopped suddenly and asked her mother a question with a worried look: “What
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A CHRISTMAS BENEDICTION May you, wherever you are in this golden hour, know joy. May your hearthfire be surrounded with those near and dear to you; the happiness of your
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PRAYER IN KIND It was the Christmas season and a meeting was held in a small church for the announced purpose of praying for a local family that was having
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TOUCHE ON WRITTEN PRAYERS The occasion was one of those community inter-faith Thanksgiving services where all the local pastors were participating — including the Episcopal rector and the Baptist preacher.
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COME BOLDLY When I was a young boy in public school, my father supported our family by holding down two jobs. His full-time work was a foreman at the Imperial
YOU NEED SONLIGHT Scientists have discovered that some people are affected adversely when deprived of light. This is called “seasonal affective disorder”, better known as SAD. When susceptible people are
GET READY When the farmer prays for a good crop, God expects him to say amen with a hoe. J. Vernon McGee
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BREAKFAST FROM GOD Things looked bleak for the children in George Mueller’s orphanage at Ashley Downs in England. It was time for breakfast, and there was no food. A small
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KNOWLEDGE V S. EXPERIENCE John R. Mott, a great Christian layman who was the first Honorary President of the World Council of Churches, said that in his early years at
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PRAYING FOR ENDURANCE Studdert Kennedy, a great chaplain in the First World War, used to tell of listening to two frightened soldiers during a heavy bombardment on their trench. In
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