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Is your body as good as new? Of course it isn’t. After turning thirty our bodies begin to deteriorate. If only I could recover the strength and agility of pain-free knees! I can remember the days of running track and playing rugby football. I see people jogging and...
VICTORY OVER ALL EVIL
J.R.R. Tolkien’s famous children’s book, The Hobbit tells the story of Bilbo Baggins, who travels to the Lonely Mountain, accompanied by a vigorous group of Dwarves, to reclaim a treasure stolen from them by the dragon Smaug. Bilbo is swept into the quest of...
PRAYERS FOR HEALING, PEACE AND THE NATION
A PRAYER FOR HEALING AND PEACE Christ our Lord, As in times past, Not all the sick and suffering Found their own way to your side, But had to have their hands taken, or their bodies carried, or their names mentioned; So we, confident of your goodness, bring others to...
CALMING FEARS
Rembrandt, The Stilling of the Storm. Yogi Berra once quipped, “It is tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” We are at a time when there is much fear abroad, when we do not know what the future holds. How do you handle fear for yourself or your...
HALLELUJAH
“After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting: ‘Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for just and true are his judgments’ … Then a voice came from the throne, saying: ‘Praise our God, all you his...
THANKSGIVING IN THE MIDST OF TROUBLE
Charles Haddon Spurgeon. How can you be thankful in the midst of troubles and difficulties? Each of us has enough troubles and difficulties in our lives that can rob us of our joy. Revelation 14 & 15 gives us a picture of Christians who have been going through...
DISCERNING THE EVIL EMPIRE
On March 8, 1983, President Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union, the “evil empire” in a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando. He said: “They preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man and predict its...
THE REASON FOR CONFLICT
Why is so much world history about wars and battles between people, races and nations? Why is so much national politics about party divisions, competing ideas of justice, equality and liberty, class warfare, racial stereotypes, struggles for power, and personal...
ENCOURAGEMENT TO PRAY
In the upper room during his last supper before his crucifixion Jesus promised his disciples, “You may ask me anything in my name, and I will do it.” (John 14:14) Yet often it appears that our prayers are unanswered. Where can we find encouragement to pray? How do we...
FEAR IS DEFENSELESSNESS
In his Inaugural Address in 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his oft-quoted words: “Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Zygmunt Bauman, one of the foremost social thinkers of our time, writes, Fear is at...
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