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First, Let Me Bury My Father
Not too many years ago I wanted to write a book. I had a plot, a title, and a cast of characters to bring it all to life. I was excited...
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Nov 13, 20247 min read
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Raising Cain
We are all familiar with the story of Cain and Abel, although we don’t know why God did not regard Cain’s offering as He did Abel’s. God...
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Nov 6, 20246 min read
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Christians and Government
In John 18:36 , Jesus says, “ My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight . . . But...
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Oct 30, 20245 min read
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Do They Really Believe That?
Many people become atheists first and search for reasons to justify the choice later. Some of the things they have to accept...
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Oct 23, 20247 min read
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Thoughts About God, the Bible, and Science
It is a popular notion among people in our modern world that science and Christianity, or science and God stand in opposition to each...
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Oct 16, 20248 min read
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What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Every now and then a blog topic grabs hold of you before you have time to think about it. This week's topic chose me. I didn't choose...
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Oct 9, 20245 min read
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Always With Grace
In the early 1860’s the McCoy family lived mostly on the Kentucky side of the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy river, and the Hatfields lived...
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Oct 2, 20246 min read
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Symbolism in Christianity
Many religious traditions throughout the world are highly dependent on symbolism, ceremony, and some, mysticism, as part of the...
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Sep 25, 20246 min read
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God Has a Plan For You
If you’re listening closely enough you”ll hear it said from time to time that God has a plan for you. What is meant is that God has a...
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Sep 18, 20247 min read
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If You Don’t Know, You Don’t Know.
I suppose everyone reading this has heard the term, “God thing,” at some point. “There’s no way to explain how he survived that accident....
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Sep 11, 20246 min read
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In, Not Of
Youth Group makes clothes for Ghana. In Luke 11, and more famously in Matthew 6, Jesus offered a model prayer for his disciples to follow...
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Sep 4, 20247 min read
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Replacing Don’ts with Dos
A criticism some people offer of Christianity is that it’s too negative. I think they’re due to study more. For one thing, if you’re...
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Aug 28, 20246 min read
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The Problem with Pride
Yes, that’s my house. I built it myself (with a lot of help from my friends. (Some of them are still my friends.)) I take pride in it, a...
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Aug 22, 20246 min read
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What Will Heaven Be Like?
If you were asked to write a paragraph describing Heaven, what would you write? What do most people think of when they think of Heaven?...
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Aug 14, 20245 min read
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How Do You Know?
”Jesus loves me,” the little children sing (and adults should as well.) “Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me,”...
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Aug 7, 20246 min read
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Opening Ceremonies
On Friday, July 26, the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured a perverted restaging of the “Last Supper” painting by...
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Jul 31, 20245 min read
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Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross
(from Songs of Faith and Praise) Fanny J. Crosby, 1820 - 1915, wrote more than 8,500 hymns during her time on this earth. She became...
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Jul 24, 20246 min read
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Love vs Fear
Why does a boy ask a girl to marry him? Why have people in war zones spent the night almost totally submerged in jungle rivers? Before...
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Jul 17, 20246 min read
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A Choice You Don’t Have to Make
I want to ask you a question. Can you be tempted into being good? Can anybody be tempted into being good? Think about that and we’ll...
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Jul 10, 20248 min read
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God Bless America
Missoula, Montana, from Mount Sentinel The song, “God Bless America,” was written by Irving Berlin at the close of WW1 and put away until...
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Jul 3, 20245 min read
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