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Category Archives: Faith
This is my fight song, Amazing Grace!
With words of self-assurance and determination Rachel Platten’s hit song, “This is my fight song”, has spoken to children and young people with pediatric cancer. Listen to the words and you understand why. “This is my fight song, Take back … Continue reading
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Never Question God–Psalm 64
“Here me, O God, as I voice my complaint.” “Never question God,” people warn. “Faith doesn’t ask ‘Why?’ Faith accepts,” we are told. Some Christians shudder when I share those times in my life when I have shaken my fist at … Continue reading
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Immanuel–God with Us (Part 4)
“‘The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel’—which means, ‘God with us’” (Matthew 1:23). The biblical texts are abundant testifying to God’s initiative and to the willingness of Christ. … Continue reading
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Immanuel–God with Us (Part 3)
The Creator coming in the flesh in itself is outrageous, incomprehensible. The purpose of His coming is all the more outrageous and incomprehensible. “He humbled himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross!” (Philippians 2:6-8). The Son of … Continue reading
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Immanuel–God with Us (Part 2)
At the core of Christian faith is an outrageous claim. God, in the person of his Son, came to dwell on the earth as a human being. The Creator of all things, the one whom “the heavens, even the highest … Continue reading
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Immanuel–God with Us (Part 1)
The nations around ancient Israel had physical representations, idols, of their gods. Often the ancient prophets of Yahweh rebuked Israel for wanting to imitate their neighbors. They made idols fashioned after cattle or humans to represent Yahweh, equating God with … Continue reading
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“God is not dead; nor doth He sleep.” (Revision of an earlier post.)
San Bernardino, Paris, Umpqua Community College, terrorism, hatred, fear. Personal loss and pain, whatever it is you have experienced or are experiencing. Cancer, pediatric cancers, Alzheimers, other debilitating and life threatening diseases, debilitating and life threatening injuries. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow … Continue reading
Sharing in the sufferings of Christ
“So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good” (1 Peter 4:19). This fall my wife and I have especially found joy in the beauty and wonder of … Continue reading
FACING DEATH
“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! We know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see … Continue reading
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The Humility of Baptism
“In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus” (Romans 6:11). My wife and I recently spent two days in Lancaster, PA Amish country. Since then a word which has been on my … Continue reading
Journey through the Shadowlands 