Tag: Faith
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View From the Tree
(2-minute read) It started out as a matter of curiosity. The reaction of the people to Jesus’s sermon on the mount seems different from what I expected, and I wanted to know why. What I discovered surprised me and has changed my life. Jesus was on the earth at a unique time in Jewish history.…
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Snakes In My Brain
(2-minute read) One morning, my wife stepped into our bedroom closet, turned on the light, and saw a snake on the floor. I was out of town, but she heard voices at the back of our house and ran for help. They got the snake and took it away. A week or two later, I…
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Our Place
(2-minute read) Was God the Father just and fair with Jesus? I remember shortly after becoming a Christian, being thrilled with my salvation but feeling sorry for Jesus having to go through suffering and death. Where actually asking another to suffer and die might be wrong, Jesus was not another. In the temple courts, when…
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Dancing with the Lord
From my earliest childhood memories, I remember my dad occasionally walking into a room where music was playing, taking my mother’s hand, and they would begin to dance without saying a word. They wouldn’t dance long, usually not even an entire song, but the look on my mother’s face was always as if she was…
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Loss
(3-minute read) One morning years ago, I had just put on my suit coat and was about to leave for work when I heard my wife say, “Something’s wrong with the dog.” Kacie, our 14-year-old blonde Cocker Spaniel, had recently had numerous medical issues. When I looked at the dog, she was in obvious pain.…
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Memory
“Does anyone know what I went to the kitchen to get?” Oh, the joys of senior moments. My memory is not what it used to be. I decided to get tested to ensure it was age and not something more serious. The doctor said I was fine. He said, “In your early 20s, when you…
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Struggle and Practice
(2-minute read) My wife, Jo, is an artist. She took up art late in life and is still learning on every painting she does. I could hear sounds of frustration from her as I walked through the room and asked, “What’s the problem?” “My clouds. I can’t get my clouds right.” I watched her paint…
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Pirate’s Treasure
(3-minute read) In the early days of the American colonies, pirates plagued merchant shipping on the trade routes of the eastern seaboard and in the Caribbean. At their peak between 1715 and 1725, it is estimated that there were approximately 2000 pirates manning ships of various sizes. With no organized armed resistance against them, few…
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St Petersburg Church
(3-minute read) Last Saturday night, we were invited to go with our friends Dean and Patti to their church in St. Petersburg, FL. The church had started a new thing in which, once a month during the service, they brought prayer teams to the front of the church and opened it to anyone wanting prayer.…
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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…
Walking the path 