Tag: faith
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This Could Be Your Lucky Day
Many Christians will say they don’t believe in luck or that anything happens by accident. Many of the things in life that seem to be coincidence or happenstance are in truth carefully orchestrated by God to bring about His will. But Solomon did say that “time and chance happen to [us] all,” (Ecclesiastes 9:11). I…
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The Value of Sadness
I recently sat in on a children’s class in which the teacher asked if sadness is a good thing or a bad thing. Interesting question, don’t you think? Most of us would say it’s bad, but she said it is neither good nor bad. She pointed out that sadness is often prompted by our love…
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Honeymoon
Even good marriages have conflicts and low points, and in our individual journeys of faith, we may have times that we find our spiritual enthusiasm waning. But sometimes it is the very tribulation, the problems, the conflicts, the difficult things that lead us back to hope. Why? How?
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The Miracle of Forgiveness
Imagine that Jesus is standing at your door. You invite him in, but you’re probably too shocked to think to offer him a seat and something to drink. He says he’s there to do a miracle for you. What would you ask for?
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One More Story
If you read last week’s blog, you now know my simple conversion story. But after I wrote that story, God kept reminding me that I have another story to tell. Yet I hesitate.
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My Twins and the Twin Towers
This twin tragedy played out before our eyes while, at the same time, our own twins were being put on respirators, fed through tubes, and given the best care possible so that life could prevail over death.
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Independent Faith
At my first defense no one stood with me, but all forsook me. May it not be charged against them.2 Timothy 4:16 Recently on Facebook I threatened to turn this into a blog about laundry after I posted a question on the topic and received scores of replies. I hadn’t realized what an interesting subject…
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Fighting Against God
Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain. He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life….Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? “Father,…
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What A Fool Believes
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”Psalm 14:1 Does anyone else remember the old Doobie Brothers song, “What a Fool Believes”? It’s about a man who meets up with an old flame hoping to rekindle it. For her it’s just an exercise in nostalgia. “But what a fool believes he sees,…
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God Is With Us When We Suffer
And the water in the skin was used up, and she placed the boy under one of the shrubs. Then she went and sat down across from him at a distance of about a bowshot; for she said to herself, “Let me not see the death of the boy.” So she sat opposite him, and…
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