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INVIGORATING HOPE

“For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. Romans 8:24-25 The most depressed and lonely among us have »

CHANGE OF PLANS?

“But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the LORD, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. Acts 9:1-2 »

THE OLDER BROTHER

“Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to Him. And the Pharisees and the Scribes grumbled, saying, ‘This man receives sinners and eats with them.’ So He told them this parable… Luke 15 The Parable of the Prodigal Son, recorded in Luke 15, is remembered by most »

The Interminable Wail

“Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of Him. Even so. Amen.” Revelation 1:7 Bad habits often linger. I have a terrible habit of sometimes spontaneously letting out a »

Enemy Discernment in 2026

“But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.” -Hebrews 5:14 The American G.I. Rifleman Doug Hester tumbled out of the beach landing craft with his fellow Infantry soldiers into the same path of three »

A New Year, a New You

By Chaplain (Col) Stephen W. Leonard, USA, Ret. “18 Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness, and rivers in »

Love One Another

By Chaplain (Col) Stephen W. Leonard, USA, Ret. “Love one another as I have loved you.” John 13: 34-35 My world is made up of me, myself, and I. As a self-thinking, self-absorbed human being, we tend to consider ourselves as a world unto ourselves. In a »

God, Our Savior

By Chaplain (Col) Stephen W. Leonard, USA, Ret. “Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God, our Savior, and of Christ Jesus, our hope.” 1 Timothy 1:1 The Apostle Paul begins his first epistle to Timothy with what might appear to you a switch »

153

By Chaplain (Col) Stephen W. Leonard, USA, Ret. “Simon Peter climbed aboard and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn.” John 21:11 Only the apostle John records this fishing expedition of the disciples »

The Thousand Year Walk

By Chaplain (Col) Stephen W. Leonard, USA, Ret. “And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.” Luke 24:27 In a walk to Emmaus the afternoon of Resurrection Day, Jesus met and walked with two of »

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