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Topical Scripture: Matthew 5:14–16 Would you choose to stay at a vacation home with no WiFi, TV, or clock? The nearest bathroom is an outhouse down four flights of outdoor stairs. It’s closed the entire month of August because it might burn down in a wildfire. Yet three hundred people are on the waiting list […]
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Topical Scripture: Matthew 5:8 There are three tame ducks in our back yard, Dabbling in mud and trying hard To get their share, and maybe more, Of the overflowing barnyard store. Satisfied with the task they’re at, Eating and sleeping and getting fat. But whenever the free wild ducks go by In a long line […]
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Topical Scripture: Matthew 5:10 The world celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the lunar landing yesterday. What most people didn’t understand at the time was that Apollo 11 was far more dangerous than we knew. As Eagle neared its landing site on the moon, Neil Armstrong realized that the onboard computer would land the module in […]
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Topical Scripture: Matthew 5:7 There was some strange news in the news this week. A man built a pyramid from 1,030,315 pennies, setting a Guinness record. It took him three years. I’m not sure how he makes a living, but he has $10,303.15 in cash on hand. A man in Spain sold a block of […]
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Topical Scripture: Matthew 5:5 Summer will not begin officially until June 21, but don’t tell that to the kids who are already out of school. Nearly one hundred million of us will take a family vacation this year; two-thirds of us during the summer. Since 87 percent of us own outdoor grills, we will do […]
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Topical Scripture: Matthew 5:9 A friend sent me these first-grade proverbs. The teacher gave the kids the first half of the sentence, and they supplied the rest: “Don’t bite the hand that . . . looks dirty.” “If you lie down with dogs, you’ll . . . stink in the morning.” “A penny saved is […]
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Topical Scripture: Matthew 5:6 I saw some interesting signs recently: On a plumber’s truck: “We repair what your husband fixed.” At an optometrist’s office: “If you don’t see what you’re looking for, you’ve come to the right place.” Outside a muffler shop: “No appointment necessary. We heard you coming.” Seen at a café: “If our […]
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Topical Scripture: Matthew 5:4 Memorial Day may be the most confusing holiday of the year. It began in 1864 in response to the Battle of Gettysburg when women from Pennsylvania put flowers on the graves of their fallen soldiers. The next year, a group of women decorated the graves of soldiers buried in Vicksburg, Mississippi. […]
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The Man Who Left Jesus Sad Matthew 19:16-26 Dr. Jim Denison As some of you know, I have a definite dislike of heights. Given that fact, I found this story especially interesting. On the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia in 1964, a confrontation between Malaysia and Indonesia threatened the security of the region. And […]
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Topical Scripture: Matthew 19:16–26 National Pizza Day is today. Americans should celebrate this day, since we eat one hundred acres of pizza a day, 350 slices a second. In less fattening news, this morning we were treated to the first supermoon of 2020 as well. Native Americans called it the “snow” moon because it usually […]
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