It is my privilege on many Sundays to close out our worship service with a benediction.
Knowing that this is so I will try to find the overarching theme of the service, taking into account the words of scripture used, the words of the songs and hymns used in congregational singing, the offerings of praise from our choir, band, and others, ...
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Some of the things Jesus told his disciples and are recorded in the Gospels are downright scary!
Check out this exchange prompted by a question from Philip:
Jesus replied, “Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and yet you still don’t know who I am? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father! So why are you asking me to show ...
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I have long been intrigued by what makes people be attracted to hardship when easier, cushier options are readily available. For example. Olympic athletes will put in countless hours of effort and sacrifice innumerable opportunities for other pleasures just for an opportunity to compete that only comes around once in every four years. The reality ...
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“A man, a plan, a canal, Panama” is probably the longest palindrome I know. Try it — it reads the same backwards as forwards!
That fact popped into my head because I was remembering a trip across Gatun Lake in Panama. You might not have been aware that Gatun Lake did not exist before 1914 when President Theodore Roosevelt pressed a switch ...