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Women

“And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.” Genesis 2:22 “Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.” Proverbs 31:30 July 22, 2022 Our culture would have women define themselves […]

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Obituaries, Part 2

“About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church….Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.”  Acts12:1, 23 July 19, 2022 “Herod Agrippa I, 10 BC-44 AD, king over

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Obituaries

“About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church. He killed James the brother of John with the sword…” Acts 12:1-2 July 18, 2022 Perhaps it is a sign of the times, mine only, but as a teenager I really got into the comics section in the newspaper.

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Disappointments

but Jesus said to him, “Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?…But he [Peter] denied it, saying, ‘Woman, I do not know him.‘” Luke 22:48, 57 July 15-16, 2022 Who of us has not had to deal with disappointment? A baseball game rained out as a youth, a broken heart over

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When God is Forgotten

Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children”. Isaiah 47:8 July 13, 2022 Alexander Solzhenitsyn was described in 1983, upon receiving the Templeton Prize for Progress

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Pregnant with Evil

“Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.” Psalm 7:14 July 12, 2022 Strange language has entered into news reporting. We read of “pregnant persons.” No, not pregnant women. We are to assume, wrongly, that men can also be pregnant. Of course this is absurd, but as the

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Truth and Love

“[Love] does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.” 1 Corinthians 13:6 July 8-9, 2022 One of the conceptual causalities of our times is confusion about the relationship between truth and love. Love has been kidnapped and redefined by our secular culture. It has been reduced to whatever makes one feel comfortable. Truth

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