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In his seminal work, Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton wrote: Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian. … The tremendous figure which fills the Gospels towers in this respect, as in every other, above all the thinkers who ever thought themselves tall. … There was something…
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Thus says the Lord,your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:“I am the Lord your God,who teaches you to profit,who leads you in the way you should go.Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments!Then your peace would have been like a river,and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;your offspring would have…
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Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. (Hebrews 13:1-2 ESV) One winter when I was about 14 years old, we had a heavy snowstorm that brought most everything to a standstill. My grandmother lived about a mile away from us and was spending a few…
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Psalm 23:3a (KJV) He restoreth my soul. We just held Tractor Sunday at our church, Emanuel Lutheran in Elmer, NJ. The objective is to get our friends and neighbors out to church, and we encourage them to bring their restored old tractors and , in some cases, antique cars to our outdoor service. Some…
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Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. (I Corinthians 12:27 ESV) I have a free membership to a health club. With the free membership comes the responsibility of actually using its facilities. I don’t want to lose the membership, so I show up once in a while, get a…