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A Change of Heart Is Needed
My car wouldn’t start. The engine would turn over but it wouldn’t crank. I knew enough to realize it wasn’t the battery. So I contacted my grandson who is now a mechanic. He came over, explored several options, and ruled out a couple of sources of the problem. However, instead of continuing to slowly eliminate…
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Recognize Your Freedom in Christ
While visiting our daughter’s family, I started playing with two of my young grandsons. At one point they suddenly decided that I was their prisoner. So they wrapped a rope around me with the intention of tying me up. However, I discovered very quickly that among their many activities, maybe they need to include some…
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What to Remember When Evil Wins
It was an exciting day for a couple of my grandchildren. One of my grandsons, a middle-schooler, had been invited to run with the high school team in the regionals of their cross-country meet. He outran most of the competitors who towered far above him in height, finishing in second place and helping his team…
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Be a Light to Those in Need
Recently I found an old letter that had been sent to our church over thirty years ago from then President George H. W. Bush. It had to do with his emphasis at the time on what he referred to as “points of light.” He encouraged organizations and individuals to get involved in their communities to…
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God Works in Times of Adversity
We all have likely experienced periods of time in our lives when it seems like one difficulty keeps piling up on top of another. It is like a conveyer belt is delivering problem after problem, adversity after adversity. We have been going through one of those stretches over the past weeks. My wife suffered a…
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Tony Elder, Author/Pastor 