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The Positive Result of Unjust Persecution Aimed at Christians Background: I started thinking about this topic after reading an August 14, 2013 article in World Net Daily, a conservative news organization founded in 1997. Bob Unruh, a long-time Associated Press … Continue reading
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Background: These grapes date back to the 1930’s! When I was a boy I would graze on them when I visited my Great Aunt Bertha. More than 50 years later my wife and I purchased the old home place property … Continue reading
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Background: Our granddaughter, Ashlyn, and her husband Josh are the proud parents of their first baby boy … Sawyer Joshua Murphy, born on Thursday, May 9, 2013. Sawyer was born with a rare and serious heart condition known as Tetralogy … Continue reading
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Background: “Baby Murphy,” our much-anticipated great-grandson has arrived!! Our granddaughter, Ashlyn and her husband Josh are the parents of Sawyer Joshua Murphy. Sawyer was born early Thursday morning, May 9, 2013 at 12:09am at the Gwinnett Medical Center. Sawyer weighed … Continue reading
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Background: I was raised in the church by a frugal mother and father and introduced to the Lord through weekly church attendance and participation in children’s and youth programs. I accepted Jesus as my Savior as a twelve-year old. By … Continue reading
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Background: We worship our “heroes” by idolizing them, only later to scold and turn on them when we find that they don’t live up to our expectations. Consider the life of Pete Rose. Rose was well-known by the nick-name, “Charlie … Continue reading
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Background: Aristotle said “Hope is a waking dream.” In The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Canto III: The Gate of Hell, line 9, Dante wrote “All hope abandon, ye who enter in.” Lord Byron wrote in a letter to Thomas Moore in 1815 … Continue reading
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Background: I was born the first time during the midst of World War II. I was born the second time twelve years later. No, I did not physically die, nor was I reincarnated. But both births were miraculous. My first … Continue reading
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Background: Do you have an ultimate purpose for your life? Are you driven to rise to the top of the corporate world? Do you want to accumulate vast wealth? Do you want to be a great political leader? Is great … Continue reading
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Background: Sometimes troubles are known well in advance. Sometimes troubles come completely as a surprise. Troubles are often the result of our bad decisions. Troubles can be minor. Troubles can be major. Troubles can pierce the very soul of man. … Continue reading
The Good News circa 1973 - Practice Around the Piano - Charles Thomas, Jim Davenport, Arnold Johnson, Ray Shaw
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