It sometimes seems as if fierce is in. Some people seem to be against everybody and everything. That is such a hard way to live. You know there is another way. God is angry with sin every day, and yet he doesn’t immediately strike down every sinner. He continues to send the sunshine and the [...]
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Why Do You Do?
Posted in Love on Oct 22nd, 2007
The story is told of a woman who cooked wonderful hams for her family. When she cooked a ham, the first thing that she did was cut off one end of the ham and throw it away. Presently it came to pass that someone questioned her about why she always cut the end of her [...]
Women and Children First
Posted in Love on Aug 14th, 2007
When watching a movie that has a seagoing setting and the cry goes out, “Women and children first,” you know that the peril is great and the ship is sinking. This tradition of putting the utmost urgency to saving the most precious among us reputedly goes back to the experience of the HMS Birkenhead. The [...]
Can’t Say Can’t
Posted in Love on Aug 3rd, 2007
Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. [...]
The first of Jesus’ trials took place in the dead of night just after He was arrested praying in the garden. This trial was before the Caiaphas the Jewish high priest at the time, and the scribes and elders. The details of the trial are laid out in Matthew 26:57-68. The verdict of the “trial” [...]