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The Holy Spirt, Our Corrector
“And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.” Hebrews 12:5-6 “Chasteneth”? “Scourgeth”? Those don’t sound like pleasant experiences,…
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The end of the atheist
I have heard atheists debate God and His existence. But I never hear them debate the resurrection of Jesus or the existence of Israel. All religion is their target. They will not specifically target Christianity or Judaism. I know why now. Look at the evidence. 1. People documented what they saw. People saw Jesus alive;…
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The gardens of Easter
One smell of hyacinth moves me. For eons, just a whiff of the beautiful spring flowers brought an immediate smile to my face and stirred my heart with something almost like yearning. It’s hard to describe and may make no sense at all to anyone else. For a long time, I couldn’t understand what it…
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You Are Precious in His Sight Part 2
BY GREG CRUM “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who,…
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The goodness of God
God is good all of the time and all of the time God is good. Some of us were taught that refrain as children in Sunday school or Bible school. Do we really believe it? With all of the trouble in the world today, all the sickness and disease, wars, economic hardships and disasters every…
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A rusty skillet
When my mother-in-law in Alabama moved to a nursing home here in eastern Kentucky, we had to go through her stuff. Her two sons, two stepdaughters, plus some other family members had to decide what went where. We found she was a collector of many things. Three storage sheds were filled to the brim. She…
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You Are Precious in His Sight
BY GREG CRUM “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:” I Peter 1:18-19 Inflation, escalating prices, rate increases…these are all…
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Knowing the sound of His voice
Brian Brown tells the story of being at the community pool with his family. Kids were screaming, playing and splashing in the pool. Music was playing, the lifeguard whistles were blowing and in the midst of the conversation, his wife shooshes him. And over all of the noise, she had heard their youngest daughter screaming.…
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Good things at the jail
Makayla came out of the cell first. With purpose. Last Sunday at 7 a.m., female inmates at the county jail milled into the multi-purpose room for Bible study. It was coffee day, so they made a line for freshly brewed coffee with flavored creamer. There were also Little Debbie cakes. (They know I want to…
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The power of humility to move God to mercy
“And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son’s days will I bring the evil upon his house.” I Kings 21:28-29 One of the blessings…
