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Mindful of more than matter
BY GREG CRUM “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” Colossians 3:1-2 Here in Colossians 3, we are told to “set our affection on things above.” What does…
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Forgetting the buttermilk
BY DAWN REED When the alarm went off on Sunday at 4 a.m., there was a lot to do. Coffee day for our jail Bible study meant brewing started early. It was going to be a busy day. There was jail study at 6:45, Sunday School breakfast, then Sunday School, the 11 o’clock service, followed…
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The mark of Jesus
BY JACK WARD Issac Butterworth tells this story. One time there was a man in my church, the owner of a local business and a highly intentional Christian. The apostle Paul once said of himself that he bore “on [his] body the marks of Jesus” (Gal. 6:17). Well, this man bore the marks of Jesus…
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Letting go to go forward
BY DAWN REED Our daughter, Jessica, shaved her head a few weeks ago. I know. I was surprised, too. She wasn’t having some kind of breakdown, praise the Lord. She was just tired of her hair falling out in handfuls due to health issues and medicine. We FaceTime before bed, and every night – for…
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‘Preacher says the Bible is not the word of God’
BY JACK WARD Several years ago, Alexander J. Barron, a licensed Missionary Baptist preacher, decided that the Bible is not the word of God, but that is OK; he will continue to preach it. He says, “I believe in preaching the word of God. I believe in the saving of souls from the clutches of…
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Why Should I Worry? Part 2
BY GREG CRUM “And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? And he…
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Who is in charge of the weather?
BY DAWN REED We are having some crazy weather this week. Extreme heat warnings are in every forecast. It is supposed to be a bajillion degrees today and just the same tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day. We practically need sunscreen to get to the car. Our friend Corey said it feels…
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‘Through the Gates of Splendor’
BY JACK WARD One of the most influential Christian women of the 20th century, Elisabeth Elliot, has died. Elliot, the Christian author and speaker whose husband, Jim, was killed during their short-lived but legendary missionary work among unreached tribes in eastern Ecuador in the 1950s, passed away Monday, June 15, at age 88. She wrote…
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Why should I worry?
BY GREG CRUM “Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his…
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Our Jesus is a Jew Part 3
BY GREG CRUM “I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.” Romans 11:1-2a Has God forsaken the modern nation of Israel? Great question, and one that…
