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God’s Mercy Gives You Another Chance
One recent Sunday morning I had just begun to preach when I spied a tiny black spider on the podium, one of those whose main defense mechanism involves hopping around in order to avoid its enemies. I quickly decided my best course of action was to pause my sermon, give a brief explanation to the…
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Get Ready to Stand before the Lord
As I was sitting in a restaurant last weekend, a sudden thought struck me. It was brought on by my observing the freshly-hung strand of lights decorating the wall and listening to the Christmas music playing in the background. What entered my mind was the thought, “I’m not ready for this.” The “this” was the…
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Let Your Gratitude Lead to Praise
Last Sunday we were singing the old hymn All Creatures of our God and King during our worship service. If you are not familiar with the song, it encourages all of creation to lift up its voice in praise of God. It makes reference to various parts of nature, including the sun, moon, clouds, wind,…
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We Should Be More Like Our Veterans
This weekend our country honors its military veterans. Hopefully we do so without going so far as to glorify war, but rather with the hope that our armed forces serve as a deterrent to such conflicts and act more as keepers of the peace rather than warriors. We honor them without overlooking the horrors of…
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Seek Peace for Your Troubled Heart
Maybe you have seen it imprinted on a bookmark, a refrigerator magnet, or some kind of framed wall-hanging. It is the familiar prayer that says, “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.” This is actually only a…
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