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Comfort
According to the Scriptures, every human being has an inherent understanding of what comfort is and learns to trust in God through comfort from a very early stage in their lives: Yet You are He who brought me forth from the womb;You made me trust when upon my mother’s breasts.10 I was cast upon You from birth;You have been my God…
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A Word(le) for Today: Canny
Today’s word is “canny” which was yesterday’s wordle answer. We are more familiar with the opposite word “uncanny” which describes something mysterious. “Canny” is used in Scotland to describe something nice but in common English it is an adjective more or less equivalent to the word “shrewd”. In Luke 16:1-15 Jesus tells a parable in…
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A Word(le) for Today
May 7th, ’22 The word(le) was “midst”. Sing, O daughter of Zion!Shout, O Israel!Be glad and rejoice with all your heart,O daughter of Jerusalem!15 The Lord has taken away your judgments,He has cast out your enemy.The King of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst;You shall see disaster no more. 16 In that day it…
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A Word(le) for Today
I have been doing a small devotional with my family based on the Wordle answer for the day before. I am reproducing it here so others can benefit also. Yesterday’s word(le) was “badge”. A badge is something you wear in a prominent place to show that you support the thing the badge stands for. A…
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Peace & Division
For He is our peace who made the two one and the middle wall of partition destroyed the enmity in His flesh the law of commandments in dogmas He abolished so that he might make the two in Him into one new man making peace and he reconciled the two in one body by God…
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A Short Devotion
When Nora invited me to bring “a short devotion” to the meeting tonight I thought I had better know what that means. Actually the word “short” is very inexact and to an analytical mind like mine that could mean anything. For instance, it is a short distance from here to the Moon in comparison to…
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Life Questions
Someone I love had some good questions recently: Life’s not free, why do Christians say it is free when it is not? You have to work to live. I answered by saying that this life is not free in the sense she meant but that eternal life is free. If she died tomorrow morning or…
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On being asked to speak
The last time I got asked to speak it turned out that the only reason I was asked was because I had given the recipients enough money to buy food for the congregation. When I asked them if they would have come if there was no food the answer was a simple “no”. Apart from…
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Transition Well
The step from this world to the next is a transition from a place of limitation to a place of excessive freedom. It is from a place where weariness and pain are part and parcel of people’s lives to a place where such things are unknown. The transition can be sudden or drawn out: In…
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Tree of Life International Ministry School
As a couple, Olive and I have been coming into a period of grace and overflow. There is a lot to be said for loving others because you have an overflow in your own lives. Loving God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength causes the springs of love, peace, joy, patience, goodness, kindness,…
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