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Posted in Difficulties, Grace on Feb 1st, 2009
My mother, an English major and history minor, enjoyed tossing around old sayings. “Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” She used that one with one of my feistier friends who cheated at cards. “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” None [...]
Posted in Disappointment, Grace, Sovereignty on Dec 8th, 2008
Poor Jonah. We sometimes laugh at this pouting prophet, but I’m probably in his company more often than I would want you to know. Perhaps we all share a similarity to this comic-relief specimen of humanity. Maybe we should go a little easier on Jonah. God had a plan for Jonah’s life-a specific mission [...]
Posted in Celebration, Grace on Dec 3rd, 2008
Rahab didn’t have much to live for until she welcomed two strangers into her home. She lived in a pagan land under barren circumstances. To survive, she allowed others to defile her. As a woman in that situation she had probably given up hope that life would ever really be good. Reputation wasn’t a consideration; [...]