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Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

  Jesus felt each life slip away, and he grieves with every survivor over the loss of friends, family and security.   Isaiah 53:4 (ESV) Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.  

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Blessed Children

  We just celebrated Children’s Sunday. I asked, “What’s the best part of having children?”     Leaving a heritage Watching them sleep The miracle of birth Grandchildren! (from a bumper sticker: “If I’d known grandchildren were so much fun, … Continue reading

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My Best Hope

    Oh Lord, you are my best hope.     Yes, indeed. I hope for the Best.  

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Encouraging Hope

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“What hope do I have?”

    I really like how the Easy-to-Read Bible words Psalm 39 (verses 6-8):   Our life is like an image in a mirror.     We rush through life collecting things,     but we don’t know who will get them after we die. … Continue reading

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Hope at Its Source

“Do not look to your hope,   but to Christ,   the source of your hope.” Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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True Hope

  What hope rests close to your heart?     I hope for comfortable summer weather I hope that my children do well in life I hope for God’s direction in my life I hope for eternity in heaven We … Continue reading

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Fear or Faith?

Joshua 3:15-16 (NIV) Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge, the water from upstream stopped flowing. It … Continue reading

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Grasshopper Fear

  Numbers 13:33 (NIV) We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.   The spies were afraid of the people they saw in the Promised Land. That fear kept the Israelites in the desert … Continue reading

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Unbalanced Fear

  “We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.” William Gurnall (1617-1679) A Puritan Golden Treasury

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