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Dear Friends, “…..we do not lose heart; but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.  For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things [...]

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Press Toward the Goal!

Dear Friends, New beginnings often inspire us to set new goals, make resolutions for a new year.  We might resolve to spend more time in the Scriptures and in prayer;  determine to lose some weight;  do what is necessary to improve our health;  spend more quality time with family and friends;  take more steps to [...]

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Throughout this season when the birth of the Son of God has been celebrated around the world, by saints and sinners alike, I have been impressed more than ever by how profound an event was the Incarnation. It is beyond human comprehension that Almighty God, the Creator of the Universe, the Source and Cause of [...]

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Referring again to a quotation in my last letter from 2 Peter 1:4 & 5, a further thought stood out to me concerning God’s “precious and wondrous promises” which He has given to us.  The phrase “in order that” explains the purpose for these wondrous promises.  They are given in order that-  through them – [...]

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Dear Friends, There is an interesting statement in Romans 14:7 that is an oft quoted adage:  “For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.” How often is that an applicable reality in the little events of everyday life.  I have often been awed by the thought of a person’s life [...]

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Dear Ones, Who has not stood in awe at the sight of the arch of glorious colors that appears in the sky when the sun shines after a rain shower?  It forms in that part of the sky opposite the sun.  If the rain has been heavy, the bow may spread all the way across [...]

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In previous letters I have written about God’s Thoughts – the magnanimity of them.  There are so many promises in the Scriptures that assure us of His constant concern for us;  that the thoughts that He thinks toward us are “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give us a future and a HOPE.” [...]

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Dear Friends, One of the most captivating scenes in the account of the Resurrection of Jesus is that of Mary Magdalene’s emotional experience at finding empty the tomb in which the body of Jesus had been laid after his horrendous death by crucifixion.  She rushed away and found Peter and John, to whom she recounted [...]

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Dear Ones, The Eternal, True and Living God – our Heavenly Father – created the entity called “Time” for a specific purpose, that He might bring into being a family of others like Himself – “in His image” – to whom He could show His matchless Grace, with whom He could share joyful fellowship, and [...]

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