While looking for something in my wife’s files I ran across this poem she wrote over 50 years ago. It’s amazing how time flies and things remain the same, even while they change every day. I think she wrote it while in high school, yet even today the thoughts are true, as they were over…
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I’ve been challenged…
My dear sister recently succumbed to the rash of challenges for the ALS Ice Bucket campaign, posted her video on Facebook and proceeded to challenge me. Like her, I decided to not waste the water poured over my head. Olivia, one of my granddaughters, asked to help me in fulfilling my response to this challenge, and in our video…
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On the cross – this Bell doesn’t ring true
Here’s a revisionist view of Jesus on the cross with the two thieves at His side: One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!” But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of…
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I Am His and He Is Mine
We sang this hymn in church tonight. What a wonderful affirmation of God’s love for us and our position with Him. This is one of my all time favorite hymn texts, written by George Robinson, and the traditional music by James Mountain fits the text perfectly. Loved with everlasting love, Led by grace that love…
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More of You (and less of me)
I was reminded of this song, written in 1994 by Bob Kauflin, by a tweet from @marvinlwilliams. The text of his tweet was short: ““He (Jesus) must increase, but I must decrease.” Jn 3:30 What area in ur life do u need 2 b less significant so that he is most significant?” More Of You…
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Acknowledgements
Credit. We all want it. It’s a pride thing, isn’t it? If we do something notable, don’t we want people to know about it? I know I certainly do, and I especially don’t want somebody else to get credit for something I’ve done. In my bible reading this morning (Matthew 9 and 10), I read…
