One day, after an afternoon of kayaking at Spring Lake, I was pushing my kayak up to the rack on top of my van. My arms were trembling from the hours of exercise and the kayak weighed more from the water inside. I positioned one end on the front part of the rack and began […]
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Sheep Need the Shepherd
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Date: September 3, 2015
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Sometimes the Bible describes our need for God as sheep needing a shepherd. “The Lord is my shepherd…” Jesus said, “I am the good shepherd.” Living without God is described as “sheep without a shepherd.” One thing a shepherd provides for is the periodic shearing of the sheep. This is done not only to obtain […]
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Part of the Ritual?
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Date: March 16, 2015
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The story is told about the baptism of King Aengus by St. Patrick in the middle of the fifth century. Sometime during the rite, St. Patrick leaned on his sharp-pointed staff and inadvertently stabbed the king’s foot. After the baptism was over, St. Patrick looked down at all the blood, realized what he had done, […]
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What Can I Do?
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Date: May 31, 2014
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What can I do? Tell me what I can do to make things right? Joe and Jan – those are not their real names, but they are real people – hardly knew how to talk to each other since the fateful day when Joe, and their two-year-old son, Joey, went for a walk in their […]
Faith is the Switch that releases the Power
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All it takes is switching a small trigger to blow up a building. Atlanta’s Fulton County Stadium was built in 1966 to serve as the home of baseball’s Atlanta Braves, and football’s Atlanta Falcons. In August of 1997, the stadium was demolished. The entire stadium was brought down with the turn of a switch. Of […]
He is Risen
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Date: April 22, 2014
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The Good Friday service in Dampara Baptist Church, Chittagong, Bangladesh, was packed. Little children sat on the floor in the aisles and across the front of the church. Rows of people stood in the back, craning their necks to see the crucifixion scene as depicted in the “Jesus Film.” Weeping and gasps of unbelief could […]
Has God Died?
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Date: April 18, 2014
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Martin Luther once spent three days in a black depression over something that had gone wrong. On the third day his wife came downstairs dressed in mourning clothes. “Who’s dead?” he asked her. “God,” she replied. Luther rebuked her, saying, “What do you mean, God is dead? God cannot die.” “Well,” she replied, “the way […]
A Bunch of Easter Illustrations
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It seems that some church members have been starched and ironed, but too few have been washed. First Pastor: I hear you had a revival. Second Pastor: Yes, we did. First Pastor: How many additions did you have? Second Pastor: We didn’t have any additions but we had some blessed subtractions. A Bad Day A […]
Testimonies Anne Lamott http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL8XfA8A7m0 Ellen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzHcVDRoO8M Malcolm Gladwell http://www.religionnews.com/2013/10/09/interview-malcolm-gladwell-return-faith-writing-david-goliath/ A Muslim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q6KEAp6sqQ A Muslim, part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1cSSFJGfN0
Kindness Counts
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Date: May 7, 2012
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We will have a memorial service for my mom, Clara Eberly, on Saturday, May 12th, 10:30 am at First Presbyterian Church, Hanford. Something really beautiful happened last week, and if interested, read on… Love is such an interesting thing. I led a lesson on love for our Men’s Group Tuesday morning. One of the things […]