Posted: September 3, 2024
39 And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” 40 He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.” Luke 19:39-41 I’m not sure I’d ever noticed these verses from Luke before, and I certainly didn’t know what they meant exactly.
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Posted: June 17, 2024
Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. John 15:15 As I have gotten older, also referred to as “more mature,” I have recognized just how important friends are to my life, and I think to each of us. Yesterday I
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Posted: March 29, 2024
“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:9 (NIV) Well, I feel the need to scattershoot again…. while scattershooting, just wondering about time and space and all of those things. What is it with B-flat? Have you heard about
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Posted: February 13, 2024
“By grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God” Ephesians 2:8 The theologian and philosopher Dr. Jim Denison from Dallas is a critical thinker whom I enjoy reading greatly. Today’s comments had me reminiscing – and sadly recognizing a critical
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Posted: January 19, 2024
We love, because He first loved us. —1 John 4:19 (NASB) This time of year is very difficult for me. Tuesday will be the 5th anniversary of Sally’s death, and these chilly days are a stark reminder. It seems that every few minutes I think of where I was 5 years
Posted: August 30, 2023
A Public Service Blog: For All True Southerners, and for Those Unfortunates Who Are Wannabees When on travels to our part of the country, one of the most important decisions comes to choices of restaurants. It used to be so much simpler: find an establishment named “Mama’s” or “Grandads” or “Aunt Jemima’s” and you were
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Posted: July 25, 2023
I’m telling a story to you today that may get me deeper into trouble than most, but it affected me so profoundly that it needs telling. A little background: My dear, wonderful wife lived in this house alone for over 20 years before we got married. She designed three remodeling projects
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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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