I have always enjoyed learning more vocabulary words and discovering the etymology of them as well. The English language is very fascinating and is a mixture of multiple languages, as are most languages of the world. I can speak, or at least understand, three languages to varying degrees and they are all connected in some […]
My texts are taken from Matthew 5:16, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” Matthew 5:13, “Ye are the salt of the earth…” and Matthew 7:20, “Wherefore by their fruits, ye shall know them.” The context and premise of this
I would like to continue with more principles from the lesson series, “What Bugs God?” that I recently came across from my time in Northwest Indiana, as mentioned, that I began sharing in Part I. We discovered firstly that ‘passivism about the Kingdom of God’ really bothers Him, but we should rather have ‘determination and
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There was a quote from the 1942 Disney Animated Production movie, “Bambi”, that was repeated often in our home, while raising four daughters. The quote was brought to us by ‘Thumper’ the fictional, animated rabbit, who said, “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all.” It is hard to imagine that this
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The thought for this letter comes from the Acts of the Apostles in14:27 which says, “And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.” Easily enough it is seen that God could
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I came across a lesson series on the concept of ‘What Bugs God?’ that I wrote and presented in our Children’s Church in Northwest Indiana where we Pastored for nineteen years. I believe that sometimes we as adults overthink and overcomplicate things. If we could learn the principles of the Word of God in simple
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Psalm 23 is a passage that comes to mind often, at least for me. It could be in tough times or in good times, because it is filled with so many prayerful thoughts from a teenage boy’s heart, David, who was a shepherd himself. He correlated what he did for and with to his sheep,
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There is a story in the Old Testament about the Ark of the Covenant. It had been taken from the Israelites, by the Philistines, who had had it for seven miserable months. I say miserable because God did not take this act lightly. He brought plagues upon them and their land, and because of this
My text is, John 8:11, “She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.” The adulterous woman was brought before the Lord. Jesus was teaching in the temple when the scribes and Pharisees entered with the adulterous woman. They told Jesus, with disgust in
You may have heard of ‘Newsies’ or seen them in movies depicting the 19th and 20th century eras. They were a group of children, most typically boys, who would sell newspapers on the street corners to earn a few pennies. The internet gives us this history, In the 19th and 20th centuries, major metropolitan newspapers
