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To Bond With Angels
It’s not as if God empties His heaven of a host of angels and sends them to commune with unsuspecting human beings in every generation. In fact, there is no record of such an event in the Bible except in Luke 2:13-14: Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel (who…
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Swaddling Cloths
On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean . . . nor were you wrapped in swaddling cloths. No one looked on you with pity or had compassion enough to do any of these things for you. ( Ezekiel 16: 4&5) In…
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Anticipation
In leading us to a table at a local restaurant the hostess led us past a booth that was decorated with a lovely bouquet of roses. I asked what the occasion could be, and she answered, “Oh, that booth has been reserved by a young man for later this evening. He said that he is…
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Holy Freedom
Once while I was still living in New York State, I traveled to Mexico City, and among other adventures visited the zoo there. I was surprised to see in the aviary, cardinals and blue jays in cages. It seemed “normal” for me to stare at every other creature, but I couldn’t help feeling that these…
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Every Good And Perfect Gift
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. (James 1:17) Advent is the season of anticipation of a wonderful, and, indeed “good and perfect” gift. Sometimes we get sidetracked and focus on the “gifts” we will receive and give instead of…
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Fear
In A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis wrote that one of the surprises in experiencing grief, is how very similar grief is to fear, in one’s life. When fear and grief come together, they deepen our sadness and sense of loss. I believe that fear, in fact, attaches itself to any large or small change in…
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The Advent of Advent
Next week begins the season of Advent in the Christian Calendar. For some churches it is entirely ignored; for others, it’s a time of feasting, with advent calendars holding sweets for each day, and parties and celebrations. For others, it’s a significant fast , eliminating meat and dairy foods for the four weeks until Christmas.…
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Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving One evening Jack received a phone call and talked at length before ending it; and turning to me with a dazed look, he said, “The Lord really wants me to be an usher at church.” He had been called earlier and invited to usher and so had been showing up every Sunday for a…
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Feed My Sheep
Feed My Sheep Jacob said, “Behold, the sun is still high. It is not time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.” “We can’t,” they replied, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we…
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The Shoemaker
Growing up reading or listening to fairy stories, I was attracted mostly to stories of poor shoemakers who fell asleep at their bench and and woke up in the morning to find that elves or fairies or an angel had come in the night and completed the work, to their very great joy, and prosperity.…
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