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The Lord’s Supper or Communion
At sunset on April 5th this year, Jews worldwide will celebrate Passover. On that night during the Passover meal, they will be demonstrating the gospel without realizing it. One of the things that stood out to me most prominently was the bread. At the Last Supper, during a Passover Seder, Jesus instituted what we now…
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Practicing Faith
(2-minute read) Back in the 1970s, I had the opportunity of traveling with an older minister. I went with him to 15 different churches, and at each place, there would be women wanting him to pray for them for something to do with pregnancy. Although the minister never mentioned it during a sermon or gave…
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Rolling Thoughts
(2-minute read) Controlling my thoughts has always been a problem for me. Sometimes I need to concentrate, and my brain does not want to cooperate and brings up things that are not a part of what needs to be considered. Even during the night, when I want to sleep, my brain will suggest that we…
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Love and Friend
Jo and Don White (3-minute read) Before we were married, my wife Jo and I were next-door neighbors. We were dating different people, and we would come home after a date, sit on our little porch and talk about our dates and everything else. After a while, I realized that she had become my best…
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Mom and God
(3-minute read) Years ago, my brother Bob and I decided to visit my mother, who lived in Birmingham, Alabama. I was living in Pennsylvania then, and Bob lived in New York. On the first day there, Bob kept teasing all day, saying that our mother loved me more than him. He would make up numerous…
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Gaul
(4-minute read) The story comes from first-century Gaul, which became modern-day France. It tells of Christian couples coming to Gaul to spread the news of the Kingdom of God. One of the strange customs these people had was that when they married, the wife would be called by the same name as the husband. They…
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Normal Life
(3-minute read) My brother Steve tells the story of his first visit with a new doctor. He told her, “Doctor, I want to let you know that I smoke too much, drink too much, eat the wrong foods, stay up too late, and live with constant stress. But, the one thing I don’t do is…
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Provision
(4-minute read) One morning, without saying anything to anyone else, I told the Lord, “Our car is getting old, and little things are starting to break. We really can’t afford to buy a new car, and I’m worried.” Two days later, a friend we hadn’t talked to in probably 15 years contacted my wife. She…
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Monday Morning
(4-minute read) One Monday morning, I got on an elevator, and a man was standing with his face down in his hands, saying, “Will this week EVER be over.” I was afraid to laugh, but I couldn’t help but smile. Thinking about it later reminded me of a minister friend who told me he was…
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Making Myself Unhappy
(3-minute read) Most of my unhappiness in life has not been caused by someone else. I did it all by myself. My first job after I got out of the Navy was repairing computers and data processing equipment as what’s now called a field engineer. This was before the age of personal computers, and they…
Walking the path 