Posted: June 26, 2023
Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. Matthew 11:11 (ESV) But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in
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Posted: June 14, 2023
Today is Flag Day commemorating the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777, by resolution of the Second Continental Congress In his Flag Day address to the nation in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt closed with this prayer: Grant us that simple knowledge If our brothers are
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Posted: April 24, 2023
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:30-31 How can we repair a culture
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Posted: April 6, 2023
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. Matthew 27:45(ESV) And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. Mark 15:33 (ESV) Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows
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Posted: March 11, 2023
8 Come, behold the works of the Lord, how he has brought desolations on the earth. 10 “Be still, and know that I am God. Psalm 46:8, 10a (ESV) Just scattershooting while wondering……what ever happened to being bored? According to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, the definition of boredom is the state of
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Posted: February 20, 2023
Scattershooting: delivering over a wide area and at random; generalized and indiscriminate: a scattershot attack on the proposed program. (From Dictionary.com) Just scattershooting while wondering… why Washington is such a mess. Could it be because of lack of leadership? I think definitely so. I’d like to offer some advice. What
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Posted: February 2, 2023
Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Luke 12:27 (ESV) The poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote in his epic poem, Idylls of the King, As if some lesser god
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Posted: January 18, 2023
The poet William Wordsworth, wrote: “My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And
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Posted: December 15, 2022
The Lord reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Psalm 146:10 I’ve written in the past about a curious phenomenon: how uncomfortable believers make non-believers. They have problems understanding how we can live our lives as we do without fear. The difference is all in how we understand
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Posted: September 7, 2022
25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 In my life pets have never before been an important
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