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Hawkeye Christians
“Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars and spreads his wings toward the south?” Job 39:26 July 13, 2026 The hawk is an amazing bird. As a bird of prey its eyesight is up to 8 times sharper than human vision. Such sight allows the hawk to spot a mouse from 100 feet…
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A Mother Hen and Her Chicks
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!” Matthew 23:37 July 10, 2026 It was only a few days before Jesus would be…
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The Carolina Wren
“Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?” Matthew 6:26 July 8, 2026 Jesus told us to look at the birds. They tell us stories about God. Margaret Clarkson has a delightful…
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The Green-Eyed Monster
“They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,” Romans 1:29 July 6, 2026 There is a moral virus that threatens to destroy our nation in the name of human good and the promise of societal paradise. This moral and political…
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Patriotism: Good or Bad?
“Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.” Romans 13:1 July 3, 2026 “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,…
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A Groaning Creation
“For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These are but the beginning of the birth pains.” Mark 13:8 July 1, 2026 Two massive earthquakes have devastated Venezuela. Perhaps tens of thousands of people have been killed. Earthquakes are a part of…
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Our Next Meal
“Give us this day our daily bread.” Matthew 6:11 June 29, 2026 Rarely, if ever, do we in the Western world have to deal with anxiety about what we will eat day to day. Walking into a modern grocery store was never in the imagination of the disciples of Jesus. But the truth still stands…
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Conversion
“And he said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And he said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.’” Acts 9:5 June 26, 2026 The account of the apostle Paul’s conversion to Jesus Christ is a witness to the power of the Spirit of God in crashing through the barriers of unbelief. Can you think of the…
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When the Bottom Drops Out
“Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped.” Job 1:20 June 24, 2026 “Lord of all being, There is one thing that deserves my greatest care, that calls forth my ardent desires, That is, that I may answer the great end for which I am…