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Beauty
Sometimes, and sometimes frequently, I catch a glimpse of sunlight from the kitchen window on the counter top and almost catch my breath at the beauty of such an ordinary sight. It’s not only this, but other common sights around the house and yard, and even neighborhood. Familiar objects strike a chord with their beauty.…
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A Disconnect
One autumn Jack and I traveled to Houston, Texas, to hear a guest preacher who had been invited to give a series of sermons. He was a well known preacher from radio, T.V.. and online. The pulpit where he preached was situated in front of a soaring wooden cross on the wall behind him. We…
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Beautiful Music
A minister once told this story about himself. When he was quite young, perhaps ten or twelve years old, he had a gift of being able to play the piano by “ear”. His mother paid for lessons, and all his teachers were impressed with his ability. His mother also knew that he had not ever…
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Promises
Michelle was a three year old little girl when her family, including an older sister and brother, moved into the house across the street from our house. I soon got to meet the whole family, and we became friends. My daughter had just left home for college, and I was “empty nesting”, so I enjoyed…
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Oneness
God used a powerful image in comparison between Himself and a woman with a new -born baby. It’s an appealing image, for it is universally understood, and lets us have an inkling to the bond that God seeks with us: Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the…
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Doing Wrong
“When this son of yours, who has squandered your property with harlots, comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!” (Luke 15:30) These are the bitter words of a faithful older son to his father on the return of a faithless, wrong doing younger son. They are entirely true of the younger son, and…
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Tobacco And Grace
In 1674 King James I of England wrote and published “King James, His Counterblast to Tobacco”, a treatise on the damage that smoking tobacco caused. He asserted that the practice was harmful to the lungs, mouth, and discolored the teeth. It fouled the breath and made a person smell bad and unpleasant in company. He…
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Hannah Arose
Once when they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah arose. ( 1Samuel 1:9) The arising of Hannah at Shiloh is one of the most pivotal moments in the history of both Israel and of Christianity; for this is the spiritual moment of decision in the mind of a young woman that will change…
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Food From The Sky
One day when our Sunday School class was discussing Corrie ten Boom’s description of Amsterdam at the end of World War II; of the eighteen wheeler trucks from Canada waiting at the border for the Armistice, to move in and deliver food for the starving Dutch population, Peggy DeRuyter exclaimed , “I saw those trucks!…
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The House
When my sister Holly and I visited our childhood home after many years away from there, she rang the doorbell and we were met by two young girls who were home alone. I explained that we had once lived in their house; and would we be allowed to visit them? They answered that they would…
Bible at Home 