Learning Through Hardship

Learning Through Hardship

LEARNING THROUGH HARDSHIP Perhaps because the Psalm 46 touches my heart, I was almost reluctant to spend a lot of time in my head examining it.  Much as music can soothe my soul, these words embrace and assure.  I don’t really need to know how or why. ...
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God Insists on Grace

GOD INSISTS ON GRACE  I know Jonah best as a children’s story.  As I learned it, Jonah is called to go to the wicked city of Nineveh to cry out against it.  Jonah wanted no part of such a call and he tried to flee to Tarshish, the western most city in...
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Faith and Politics

FAITH AND POLITICS   I have never thought of the book of Ruth as a political statement. In fact it is probably best remembered for Ruth’s declaration of fidelity to her mother in law, Naomi in chapter 1:16,17 “Do not press me to leave you  or to turn back...
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A God Who Keeps Promises

A GOD WHO KEEPS PROMISES  Exodus 32: 7-14     The Lord said to Moses, “Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted perversely; 8 they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have...
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Find Your Center

FIND YOUR CENTER Deuteronomy 6   1 Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that the Lord your God charged me to teach you to observe in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy, 2 so that you and your children and your children’s...
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Feels Like Home

FEELS  LIKE HOME   Exodus 2: 11-16; 3:7-14   2:11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and saw their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his kinsfolk. 12 He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he...