“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God,…
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Death. It’s unnatural. It’s horrible. It ought to break our hearts. It ought to make us angry. I’ve been thinking about death lately. For many of us the greatest dread we feel is not in…
Leave a Comment“My Jesus, my king, my life, my all, I again dedicate my whole self to Thee. Accept me, and grant, Gracious Father, that ere this year be gone I may finish my task. In Jesus’…
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This is a poem I wrote years ago and found again recently. Enjoy! — Trivialities Ah! I yearn to change the world! The King of Heaven bids me conquer. In this, I ought my…
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The context of Luke 21 is somewhat dry. We tend to focus on the much-debated passage of Jesus foretelling a coming day of judgment[1] or the (admittedly moralistic) point that dissipation, drunkenness, and all their…
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God likes us to laugh. One might say He made us to laugh! More accurately, He made us to experience joy, which includes but is not limited to, laughter. God’s Word says a joyful heart…
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What is true innocence? What is the line between reality and naivety? A movie I saw a few years ago sparked these questions. Perhaps it wasn’t the movie alone, but the circumstances and some of…
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A passage that stood out in my Bible reading was the account of Christ casting a demon out of a little boy in Mark 9:14-29. There is such heart-tugging tragedy here, and one wants…
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Hello persistent and loyal readers! Life has been catching up with me again and I have not been blogging. And for that reason I wrote up a little blurb on some of my thoughts from…
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This is the last of my Christmas series on some of the good works and wonderful blessings to mankind that are a “side effect” of Jesus’ birth. This series was inspired by “What if Jesus…
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