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Throughout the Bible God’s spokesperson’s appeal to the “hearts” of the people of Israel: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God , the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all our strength. ( Deuteronomy 6:5) Jesus said, The good seed on good…

In “The Devil in the Dark”, an early episode of the Star Trek series, with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, the two of them visit a planet where they encounter what appears to be a very large rock in an underground mine. The object, called a “Horta” is clearly alive, and is presumed by both…

The Centurion said, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one to ‘go’, and he goes, and that one ,’come’ and he comes”. .…

My neighbor watched as I told my three year old daughter and her friend to look both ways before crossing the street in front of our house. “Be sure to look both up and down the street,” I said; and then we watched as she and her friend stared up at the sky, then down…

When we first moved to Spring, Texas, our only daughter was two and a half years old. I hoped that there would be other children near by, so we were delighted to find that the neighbors on each side included little girls nearly her age. As they grew older the three of them became friends…

Cara, an acquaintance I met at a wedding reception, told me this story. For over a year she and Doug, her husband, had been fostering Brad, a junior high school boy they planned to adopt. Cara and Doug both worked at the school, she as a phys. ed. teacher and cheerleader coach, and Doug as…

Migration Wild geese have an innate instinct to migrate. Once when I was watching a flock of geese fly overhead I thought that their instinct was like God’s instinct to bond with human beings, but I caught myself, thinking it was disrespectful to compare ourGod to a flock of geese. Then I read this from…

One year on the night before Christmas eve, my mother-in-law fell and broke her leg. She was alone in her apartment until a friend wondered why she hadn’t come to breakfast in the morning and tried unsuccessfully to visit her. The friend called the fire department, whose men quickly arrived and broke her lock and…

Astronaut James Irwin was the eighth man to walk on the moon in 1971. He was famous for this and for his remark, “Jesus walking on the earth was more important than man walking on the moon.” He was one of very few who could have made such an assertion with authenticity. I believe that…

Abraham Lincoln always read aloud to himself, and sometimes I read aloud to myself. In the Bible a very important moment is facilitated by a man reading aloud to himself while sitting in a chariot. The incident was both natural and supernatural: Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south. . .…