Smart as a Mom!
Woman of Faith An elementary school teacher tells of the morning she met a neighbor in the laundry room of their apartment building. “How’s your ten-year-old daughter doing in school?” […]
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Do Something!
Jesus commands each of us: “Love one another as I have loved you.” There is a story of a young clergyman who went to the pulpit and won the congregation’s
A Mirror Image
Have you ever stopped to think about how much time we spend waiting? In our daily lives we wait at the bus stop or we wait at the traffic light.
The Prodigal Father
Our text is taken from a lengthy passage in John’s Gospel often referred to as Jesus’ “Last Discourse.” It was the night of Jesus’ arrest and He was preparing the
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I’m O.k., You’re O.k.
There is a very remarkable book by Dr. Thomas Harris, a practicing psychiatrist. The title is “I’m O.K., You’re O.K.” and the book has had phenomenal success. Without doubt, it
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The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Imagine for a moment what life would be like if you believed with your whole being that God was against you or, at best, indifferent toward you. Imagine that you
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A New Tomorrow
There will be a new tomorrow There will be a brighter day There will be a new tomorrow Love will find a way These lines are from a song the
It’s Unconditional
A pastor tells of a husband and wife who came to him for marriage counseling: The woman began by saying, “My husband is a neatnik. Everything’s got to be spic
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A Strawberry For You
One Sunday morning, a preacher went into the pulpit and began to read an Old Testament passage from an Old Bible that had been falling apart and was recently repaired.
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The Pieces Don’t Fit
In one of his plays, Tennessee Williams tells about a mentally ill woman who is sitting at a card table set up in her garden, working a jig-saw puzzle. She
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Blest Are The Poor
The greatest good news ever to break into our human existence is the Good News of God’s love. The God who created you loves you so much that He continuously
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The Clownish Society
On this New Year’s Day, as on all festive occasions, there is always the danger of missing the celebration’s real significance. Like a man named John Cunningham did, for example,
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Have We Found The Messiah?
We are born for life! So says our very nature. And so says the Bible. Born for life! In Biblical terms, this means that we humans have a spiritual dimension
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Christmas And Children Of God
No one has ever surpassed John’s powerful description of the Incarnation Event — the miracle of the infinite God who comes to us and reveals Himself to us in the
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Which Door?
Robert Murray M’Cheyne is revered in Scotland as one of that nation’s great Christian Preachers. Although he died at an early age, his name already had become a household word.
Do We Care?
One of the ancient Greek words for “love is eros, meaning erotic love. “Eros’ is important, one of God’s good gifts. But the Biblical word in Greek is a-ga-pe (agape
Pleroma Of God
Pleroma (p-l-e-r-o-m-a) is not a familiar word to most of us, I am sure. “Pleroma.” It sounds like a name for a perfume or an after-shave lotion. It is neither
The Most Important Thing
The Apostle Paul understood clearly that the most important thing in all of human life is God’s Love. His own life was transformed by it-revolutionized-and he just could not stop
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All In The Same Boat
In the movie, “Harold and Maude,” it is Maude, the 80year-old lover of life, who challenges the young Harold to greater sensitivity to the wonder of life around him. In
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Isn’t My Child Wonderful?
When the Russian, Yuri Gagarin (the first man in space), returned to earth, he made the statement that he didn’t see God anywhere on his journey into the vast unknown.
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