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Prepare The Way
The book of Mark in the Bible opens with a quote from Isaiah: Behold I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way; the voice of one crying in the wilderness, “ Prepare the way of the Lord, make His paths straight. . .” (Isaiah 40:3) Today we begin the season of…
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The Second Set
The Lord said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablet, which you broke.” (Exodus 34:1) The Ten commandments are the backbone of the nation of Israel. They were God’s tool for forming a slave population into a…
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Eternal Life
My daughter was about eighteen months old when we took her to the New York State Fair at Syracuse, New York. I held her while we visited the booth where we watched chickens as they were hatching, emerging from their egg shells. The young man attending picked one up and presented a new-born chick to…
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Ask For Joy
My Grandfather’s dairy farm was on a gently sloping hill rising from the Susquehanna River in New York State. As a child I loved to visit the farm and my grandparents. From their back porch where we sometimes ate breakfast or dinner, there was a sweeping view all the way to the river. Many years…
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The True Israelite
Jacob deceived his father in order to receive the birthright. He deceived his uncle Laban in escaping after managing to have Laban’s sheep bear spotted or speckled young. He deceived his brother Esau on Jacob’s return and went in the opposite direction from the one they had agreed upon. Deceit was almost characteristic of Jacob,…
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The Bridge Of Truth
“He is light without any falsehood, and with that truth, He confounded and destroyed the lie that the Devil told to Eve, with which he broke up the road to Heaven, and the Truth brought the pieces together again, and cemented them with His blood.” ( St. Catherine of Siena,“The Dialogue”) ST. Catherine of Siena…
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The Bride Of Christ
One day Jesus was quite tired. He had been walking with his disciples for the better part of the morning, and seeing a well at about noon, he sat down near it and let his disciples go to the nearby town to get food for them all. This is the story of Jesus at the…
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That We May Believe
“I’m a West Texas girl, and if I know anything, I know that you never, ever, pick up a snake by its tail, and when I read that in the Bible, (Exodus 4:4) I knew that it was really God speaking to Moses, and I believed.” These were the words of Ellen, a young woman…
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More Than A Profit
Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own home town, among his relations and in his own home.” He could not do many miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. We was amazed at their lack of faith. (Matthew 6:4-6) In only…
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Jesus and Jonah
How is it possible that manyi Ghristians believe the Christmas story and the Easter story, but laughingly reject the story of Jonah? In fact, Jonah has become a colorful children’s story, and is treated as cute entertainment. I once heard a speaker assert that there can’t be literal truth n it, as there are no…
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