Posted: January 16, 2025
January 16, 2025 Try a Little Kindness Remember the Glen Campbell song? Oh. Wait a minute. Some of you don’t remember Glen Campbell, much less his song! Anyway, it was a good song. Well, maybe not a good song really, but it was a singable song. And I knew all the lyrics. So, for those
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Posted: January 9, 2025
The disciples followed Jesus around and they often saw him pray. They knew about prayer, but watching Jesus pray must have made them question what they were doing, so “one of the disciples said to him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray.’”1 And Jesus recited what we call “The Lord’s Prayer.” And it is, of course,
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Posted: January 2, 2025
Here is the looming question for you: How are your resolutions going so far? It’s only day two, so I hope you are hopeful and are living up to your own expectations of changing some things in your life. It’s good to have a list, a plan, a goal for needed changes. I love new
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Posted: December 26, 2024
My pastor and I have a ongoing “argument” about some Christmas carols. He contends that some of them are scripturally incorrect. I maintain that songs are poetry and poetry uses figurative language and is not to be taken literally. He asserts that some are still factually misleading. And, of course, he’s right. But I do
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Posted: December 19, 2024
Jesus offers peace: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you.”1 Don’t look for peace in this world. You won’t find it. So, how can we be at peace in a nonpeaceful world? By living righteously. Doing the right thing—not the correct
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Posted: December 12, 2024
Nicodemus was intelligent and respected. He was a leader, “a ruler of the Jews.”1 He had heard that Jesus was upsetting his colleagues with his pious words about the temple. Jesus had caused an uproar there by overturning tables and driving everyone out. He was speaking disrespectfully to the Jews and creating confusion. Nicodemus had
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Posted: December 5, 2024
When people talk about freedom, it’s generally in the context of government and country. Jesus talked about freedom. But his freedom is much broader. It is spiritual freedom, which is misunderstood and downplayed and even dismissed by many people. It is, however, the most important freedom that we have. One time when Jesus was talking
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Posted: November 28, 2024
Paul’s letter to the Colossians is one of thanksgiving. In chapter 1 he begins, “We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you.”1 He challenges the church to be strengthened by God’s power, “giving thanks to the Father,”2 because he has given us an inheritance—the kingdom of God.
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Posted: November 21, 2024
After Job lost his children and his house and his livestock and many of his servants and finally his health, “Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.”1 Wait. What? I thought Job was a man who held “fast his integrity.” A man who was “blameless and upright, one who feared God
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Posted: November 14, 2024
On a mountainside in Galilee, Jesus preached a message known as the Sermon on the Mount. We read, “Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them.”1 About two thirds of the way through the sermon, he
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