If you were lost in a deep-wooded black forest, you’d be immensely grateful to find a compass in your backpack. Chances are, you would not ignore its guidance. Following your own intuitions about which direction was north would surely fail and misguide you like my GPS does sometimes—-it’s always ‘re-calculating’ ...
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Track with me here, okay? Try buying a gift for someone who has it all. What can you give that they don’t already have or could buy for themselves? Hence, Solomon—then known as a great naturalist, writer of hundreds of proverbs and songs but took his first step downward seeking ...
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A Firm Foundation By John Livingston Clark On March 11, 2011 a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan producing a tsunami engulfing the city of Sendai. Recently, the Japanese people had a day of remembrance on the third anniversary of that catastrophic event. As the tidal wave ...
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Just a Girl and Her Heart By Renee G. The other day as I was hanging out with a few moms from church, I sat watching some of our kids play, and I started thinking what life might have been like for Mary. Do you think that the other ...
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Quick question: Was there a time in your life when you were broken-hearted? Maybe a painful relationship ripped apart, loss of a loved one, dead-end jobs, or just daily disappointments—the kind with no hope on the horizon. I imagine this describes many people. It does me. Our early marriage was ...
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