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The unexpecteds of Christmas
A few days before Christmas in 1981, my beloved came home with a great big present just for me. We were newlyweds, living on love and Tator Tots. I didn’t know what it was or how he had paid for it. He laid it gingerly under our sparsely decorated tree. Not one time in my…
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Notes from Calvary: Our Common Call to Generosity
BY GREG CRUM “Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond…
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The Pastor’s Pen: With Heart and Hands and Voices
BY JACK WARD Phil 4:6: “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.“ 1 Th 5:18: “In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” Martin Rinkert was a minister in the small town of Eilenburg, Germany,…
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Telling the Story: Holiday choices
BY DAWN REED I cried in Hobby Lobby this week. Because I missed my mom. Walking down the Thanksgiving and Christmas aisles, I was overwhelmed with a yearning for my sweet mother, who is now in heaven. The wrapping paper had me longing for her presence. Thanksgiving memories gushed forth. One year, not too long…
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The Importance of the Daily
BY GREG CRUM “And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.” Acts 2:46-47 There…
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Who is on the Lord’s side?
When you look at the book of Daniel you will see that a revised or revived Roman empire is going to come to power according to Daniel chapters 2 and 7. The revived Roman Empire will emerge from that infrastructure known as the European Union. The revived Roman Empire is a little different from the…
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Those courageous pilgrims
The ship was packed with all their earthly possessions. The sails were ready to unfurl, catching the wind of adventure. The prayers had been prayed, decisions made. This would be the most difficult journey of their lives. The only thing left to do was step onto the deck … of the Mayflower. I picture it…
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Unless the Lord Builds the House
BY GREG CRUM “Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.” Psalm…
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Dare to be a Daniel
Daniel 1:8: “But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.” In the article “unChristian,” David Kinnaman, president of the Barna Group, discusses…
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A very scary story
BY DAWN REED There were lots of scary things to see on Halloween. Vampires, Ghostface, scary clowns, Michael Myers, and zombies walked the streets as kids raced house to house for sugary stuff sure to cause cavities. We don’t have to watch horror movies or visit a haunted house to be frightened. Life is plenty…
