God Uses Hardship To Build Our Character

Moab has been at rest from youth, like wine left on its dregs, not poured from one jar to another— she has not gone into exile. So she tastes as she did, and her aroma is unchanged. (Jeremiah 48:11) And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: ...

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Masked Disobedience

Anna Coleman Ladd wanted to help disfigured soldiers during World War I. Many young men were permanently disfigured due to the modern weapons of the time: including machine guns. Shattered jaws, noses sheared off, and in some cases, half of a young man’s face obliterated, these were the wounds that ...

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Worry, Fly Away!

Seven-year-old Amelia Earhart could make an adventure out of most any activity. One snowy day, she took her brand-new sled to the top of a hill and dove, belly first, onto it, flying down the incline at high speed. Along came a horse and wagon at just the moment she ...

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You Called–You Are Mine!

“But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob,  And He who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you;  I have called you by your name; You are Mine.” (Isaiah 43:1)   You Called I thought in the cold hard dark beginning, Love was ...

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D Minor Days

It has been said that d minor is the saddest of music chords. Some of the greatest classical composers like Mozart and Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin, composed in d minor. Their music is still played today for its beauty, and perhaps for its ability to touch the human spirit. It ...

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