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Our Hope: What Is Thanksgiving?

‘Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; make music to our God on the harp.’ Psalm 147:7 (NIV) Thanksgiving is not all about the Pilgrims.  Well, the holiday is.  But true Thanksgiving began a long, long time before the Pilgrims crossed over the seas.  It began with God’s creation. ‘In the ...

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Weeds Are My Enemy

The purest seed was planted as the spring frost was unfolding in the fields.  Like most farmers, Eli depended solely upon the harvest of his wheat in order to sustain his family.  Yet, the enemy crept in and planted tares, a weed disguised to look just like the wheat in ...

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Going Around the Block…Again

With ease, I pulled out of the intersection passing lookers by trying to decide which way to turn next.  Was it right?  Left?  Or simply straight ahead?  Grabbing the map, I traced my finger along the path that I had already traveled leading me to my current location.  A quick ...

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Leave The Bucket Behind

“If being baptized by water saves you, as some religions claim, then why are we not dumping buckets of “holy water” on people everywhere?” Being raised in a religious household with this exact idea, and having been baptized as a baby, the question caught me off guard and started to ...

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Witch Doctor Turned “Apostle Paul”

Witch Doctor Turned “Apostle Paul” By John Livingston Clark It was the time of the Vietnam era and college campus protests. As the situation in Southeast Asia become more intense and controversial, the United States had to evacuate Saigon, as the nation fell to communist rule. In the midst of ...

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