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Telling the Story: Praying for God’s will
Praying for God’s will is the best thing. The wisest thing. The hardest thing. One of the most difficult lessons of my life. It happened July 20, 1994-30 years ago this week. It was a Wednesday. Sandra had been told early on she would never be able to have children. So, when she became terribly…
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Notes from Calvary: Angels we have heard on high
“But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?” Hebrews 1:13-14 It seems that increasingly in our culture the realities of the unseen…
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The Pastor’s Pen: No replacement refs
Way back in October 2012, sports fans across the United States were howling foul. Officiating calls in the final week of replacement referees in an NFL game and Major League baseball’s National League Wildcard game turned the sports world into a finger-pointing circus. On Sept. 24, 2012 Monday Night Football game between the Seattle Seahawks…
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Notes from Calvary: Staying ‘Good and Faithful’
“These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful…
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The Pastor’s Pen: They will not prevail
Psalm 22:6-8: “But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head.” When Susan Boyle stepped out on the stage of “Britain’s Got Talent” years ago people laughed at her…
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Telling the Story: Declaration of dependence
The Fourth of July is one of my husband’s very favorite holidays. He loves the colors red, white, and blue and loves to fly the flag. Growing up, learning about the history of our nation was no fun at all. Today rereading/relearning the happenings of our country’s beginning and how our independence came about stirs…
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Notes from Calvary: The Renter’s Heart
“But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this…
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The Pastor’s Pen: ‘I thought you were Jesus’
When Wycliffe Bible translator Doug Meland and his wife moved into a village of Brazil’s Fulnio Indians, he was referred to simply as “the white man.” The term was by no means complimentary since other white men had exploited them, burned their homes, and robbed them of their lands. But after the Melands learned the…
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Telling the Story: Appreciation for creation
Listening to the morning sounds in the mountains, I hear birds tweeting and greeting. They call across the hills, “Good morning! It’s time to get up.” God didn’t have to make birds sing. But He did. The honeysuckle grows wild up the hollow. It’s a delicious treat for drivers who have their windows down. Autumn…
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Notes from Calvary: Jesus is Even Better Than That! Part 9
“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.” I Peter 2:24 Jesus did more for humanity than most are giving him credit for. Nearsighted focus on past and present experiences has worked to…
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