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         Several years ago, there was a story in the news about a family in a small town in Florida.  It consisted of a father, a mother, and two young sons.  They were normal family, except for one problem.  Both boys had AIDS.  Both boys contracted the virus through a blood transfusion.  Their presence in the public school was  bitterly resisted by other parents, whose children attended that same school.  One night, under suspicious circumstances, the family’s house burned to the ground.  Finally, they were forced to move to another town.  They had been rejected by their […]

                       Have you ever considered how much of our time is devoted to  feeding our bodies?               I would not know how to calculate the time that involves. It would vary from person to person and from day to day. But I suspect all of us would be amazed at what percentage of our time is devoted to feeding our bodies.             As we reflect on all this, there are two things that we should also keep in mind. One is that there are many people in our […]

         Have you ever noticed that in this world, there are all kinds of things that take hold of us?  Some married couples know what I mean.  When you were noticeably young, you began to hear, and to see, and to learn about love.  In your teens, you began to experiment with it, dating and maybe dating one person steadily.  Then there came a time when you fell in love; and either suddenly or slowly, that love took hold of your life.  Now, you have been married for many years; and you do not possess so much […]

          The accounts that we have of Jesus’ life make it abundantly clear that Jesus was a man of prayer.  The first thing he did after His baptism was pray.  The last thing that he did before His death was pray.  And in between, there are so many references to His personal prayer life.          For example, the gospel tells us that rising early in the morning, Jesus went off into a lonely place in the desert; there He was absorbed in prayer.”  The context in which that statement is made clearly indicates […]

           To most people the word tragedy denotes some terrible happenings – a plane crash, a grinding automobile accident, a catastrophic disease, a flood.  The   possibilities are endless, and each of these happenings can be accurately defined as tragic.  But tragedy has another meaning.   It can also denote something good that could have happened and should have happened but did not.          This understanding of tragedy should remind us that the power of God most often awaits the cooperation of people.  And the tragedy is that most of us are unaware of it. […]