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Jesus said, “This is how you should pray: ‘Our Father’. (Matthew 6:9) Our very familiarity with the Lord’s Prayer, and Christianity, dulls our awareness of the unique relationship that Jesus made possible. To say “Our Father” is to claim membership in a family that...
WHY IS THERE SO MUCH CONFLICT IN THE WORLD?
September 29 in the Christian Calendar is St. Michael and All Angels Day. It marks the beginning of the academic year in the United Kingdom with Michaelmas Term. It will always be a special day for me because on that day in 1967 I was ordained to the Christian...
WHERE DO WE FIND THE ANSWERS TO THE GREAT QUESTIONS OF LIFE?
H.P. Liddon (1829-1890) Jesus said, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.” (Matthew 24:35) “My words shall not pass away.” There are loud voices and accomplished writers who say that they shall; that it is only a questions of time, and...
WAITING: PAIN OR PLEASURE? GROANING AS WE WAIT EAGERLY.
How good are you at waiting? I am not good at it at all. Patience is both the fruit of the Spirit and an aspect of love. It does not come naturally to us. We are impatient creatures. The younger you are the more impatient you are. But even as we age we have difficulty...
DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR THE FALL
My volume 4 of SOUL FOOD: DAILY DEVOTIONS FOR THE HUNGRY, for October, November and December is available to order from www.amazon.com. Just as our bodies need food our souls need spiritual nourishment each day. These daily devotionals will strengthen and sustain...
OUR GOD OF HOPE WHO BRINGS JOY AND PEACE
How we view and experience the character of God determines our own spiritual health. All too often we craft God in our own image – of what we want God to be for us. Or we reject the image of God that has been modeled to us by the culture and the authority figures in...
DE TOCQUEVILLE ON ENTITLEMENTS AND THE UNDERMINING OF THE FAMILY
I have been reading Theodore Dalrymple’s volume of essays entitled, OUR CULTURE, WHAT’S LEFT OF IT. A British psychiatrist and commentator Dalrymple has practiced medicine on four continents, a British inner-city hospital and a prison. In his chapter How To Read A...
WHY I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST (Part Three)
The third reason I believe in Jesus Christ is because of the transforming power of Christ and his Gospel that makes him the hope of the world. Political programs and parties come and go, but the Gospel of the kingdom of heaven is eternal. It is that Gospel which has...
WHY I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST (Part Two)
The second reason I believe in Jesus Christ is because of sin and evil. I grew up in the aftermath of World War II and learned from survivors of the horrors of Japanese prisoner of war camps and German concentration camps. A book that made a great impression on me as...
WHY I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST (Part One)
It would take a whole book to give you the reasons why I believe in Jesus Christ and follow him as my Savior and Lord. Those reasons have been accumulating over a lifetime. Some of them have been discarded or changed as I have grown older. Others are newer as I have...
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