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Keeping The Lord Our First Love …

“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.” (3 John 4) Just hearing the word “children” helps to conjure up in our minds those who bear our family name and each of their personalities and even their potential in life. Watching children “grow in stature and wisdom and in […]

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Jesus “Loved Them To The End”

“Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.” (John 13:1) When we intend to get something accomplished and it does not go as we anticipated, we […]

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In The “Waiting” We Learn To Trust Him More …

“But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles; They shall run and not be weary; They shall walk and not faint.” (Isaiah 40:31) I don’t know anyone who enjoys waiting for something or someone. I do know there are some who are better at […]

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When The Light Is Fading From Their Eyes …

“My heart pants, my strength fails me; As for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.” (Psalm 38:10) We find in the reading of this Psalm David lamenting the harshness of life … whether it be in the recognition of his sins and sorrow over them … or the opposition of […]

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God Is So Good …

“One generation shall praise Your works to another, And shall declare Your mighty acts.” (Psalm 78:4) By the time you read these words … I will have become a great-grandfather.   Our oldest granddaughter Anna gave birth to a precious baby boy.  And to quote my own dear mother upon her passage to that blissful time […]

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“Is There Any Word From The Lord …”

“Then Zedekiah the king sent and took him out.  The king asked him secretly in his house, and said, ‘Is there any word from the Lord? And Jeremiah said there is …” (Jeremiah 37:17) It is no secret.  The world we are living in is unstable in so many ways.  We would hope and pray […]

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What Comes Second …

“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33) Could it be that we underestimate just how much our Lord knows about each one of us?  Think about this for just a moment.  Is He not our Creator … of course He is […]

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Hope When All Around Us Is Unsettled …

“… We might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast …” (Hebrews 6:18, 19) The imagery painted in the Scriptures is graphic and should be very reassuring.  Life is not for […]

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Two Roads That Intersect …

“Who is the man who fears the Lord? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.” (Psalm 25:12, ESV) A hundred years ago, a wise man once said … “I shall be telling this with a sigh, Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the […]

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Chapter Seventy-Five

“So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom … Oh satisfy us early with Your mercy, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days!” (Psalm 90:12, 14)  Life can be interesting at times, can it not? It might be hearing a voice from the past … […]

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