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No Sorrow With It
BY GREG CRUM “The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.” Proverbs 10:22 “But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of…
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‘What’s So Amazing About Grace’
BY JACK WARD Why would God go to all the trouble to endure our bad choices and our flagrant sinning in order to have a relationship with us? Hear the story of the lost son from the modern setting as told by Philip Yancey in his book “What’s So Amazing about Grace.” Yancey tells the…
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Who is influencing you?
BY DAWN REED Searching the internet for the just right recipe for beef tips, I landed on a “Best Slow Cooker Beef Tips and Gravy” version on Pinterest. When I cook, I do want it to be the best, so I took a chance. It looked easy. I mixed together the ingredients – some I…
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The Word of Faith Part 2
BY GREG CRUM “And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to…
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A boy waits for the bus
BY JACK WARD There’s an old story of the boy who stood on a sidewalk, waiting on a bus. A man walking by spotted the boy and gave him some gentle instruction. “Son,” he said, “if you’re waiting on the bus, you need to move to the street corner. That’s where the bus stops for…
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What you cannot measure
BY DAWN REED Slaw makes me really nervous. Wait. That is not exactly right. Making slaw makes me really nervous. I do not have a set recipe. Oh, I know exactly what goes in it, but the ingredients are not exactly measured. When I make slaw, I add a scoop of mayo, a sprinkling of…
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The Word of Faith
BY GREG CRUM “But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou…
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‘unChristian’
BY JACK WARD In the book “unChristian,” David Kinnaman, president of the Barna Group, discusses some disheartening research concerning the failure of Christians in our day to remain distinct: “In virtually every study we conduct, representing thousands of interviews every year, born again Christians (talking about people who say they have made a personal commitment…
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Dealing with grief
BY DAWN REED If you are in our area this week, you will find us hugging a little more and holding hands a bit tighter. Our whole community was rocked a few days ago when a treasured 12-year-old boy named Diesel took his life just before his 13th birthday. His brother is in my Sunday…
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Our Consuming Fire Part 2
BY GREG CRUM “But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.” I Thessalonians 5:4-5 When God spoke “Let there be light” into this Universe, He…
