Judges 2:2 says, “And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?” The family had recently moved up from California to the Northwest. One morning the Dad got up and looked out on a […]
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Psalm 61:2 states, “From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.” I have yet to visit Mount Rushmore National Memorial. From pictures and readings and what I have heard from visitors, I am overwhelmed that a man,
Psalm 40:3 says, “And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.” Years ago a group of students in college choir, at a Christian college, were on campus practicing their singing on a hot summer day in
Romans 5:5 says, “And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” Times were bad. Food was almost nonexistent. Four dirty, unclean, outcast men of society were about to die. It was a time of war. These men were
Joshua 4:24 says, “That the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the Lord your God for ever.” In The Story of Hans Brinker, by Alex de Wolf, we see a little Dutch boy holding his finger in the dike all night to
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Revelation 1:10 says, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet.” My dad was a Navy man in WWII. I presided at his funeral many years later. The Navy sent out a couple of sailors to present a flag to our family on
Deuteronomy 29:19 says, “And it shall come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:” Imagination can be a dangerous thing. It causes us to move from
Daniel 12:13 says, “But go thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.” When will the end be? That is a question we like to ignore. The fact of the business is that life as we know it on this earth will
John 6:66 Staes, “From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.” George Washington had a hard time keeping an army together when fighting the British. A volunteer force of men that had no uniforms, often no shoes or enough food to eat, served for the hope of freedom.
Ephesians 4:28 says, “Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.” Some have read this verse as follows: “Let him that stole steal, no more working with his hands.” There was a
