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The reason that the church marks the days of the birth and the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ with services of equal devotion is that each of them is a salutary medicine for us, because he was born so that we might be born again, and he died that we might live forever. (…

Believe. Faith is a great hold-all, a great jar in which you can receive a great gift. Get a jar ready for yourself, because you have to approach a great spring. What does it mean, get it ready? Let your faith grow, let it be enlarged, let it become strong, don’t let your faith be…

This summer’s fauns have outgrown their spots and are leaping and playing in the cooler weather around Possum Kingdom Lake. A family that lives year-round near the lake feeds the deer, and so they have multiplied and and stayed in the area. The fauns are especially fun to watch as they play together. Their thin…

My great Aunt Fish owned and operated a tea house in the small upstate New York farming village of Otego for several years. At some time or other nearly all of her female family members, including my mother, were employed at the tea house. It was a popular place for people to come for Sunday…

When a man believes with all his understanding that he will not die before he is raptured into heaven, he has one expectation of life, very different from one who does believe that he will die, and in fact that it will be a very uncomfortable death. St. Paul was both of those men. We…

The story of Hannah from the first book of Samuel in the Bible is the story of a woman whose life held little to envy. She was the second wife of her husband, whose first wife was the mother of both sons and daughters. Though Hannah’s husband loved her, she had no hope of a…

Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions..”…

We Don’t Travel Alone Fall has arrived, and it’s already cooler. There are still two female hummingbirds who come to our feeder, but the males have already gone on their lonesome flight south to Central America. These tiny birds fly solo for hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles twice a year, stopping at feeders and nectar…

God Provides One night I had a dream of my father, who had passed away about three years earlier. In the dream my father walked toward me and said, “Your mother is doing everything right for Stephanie (my daughter), but I want her to have some of my duds.” He reached out his hand holding…