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Living Well, Dying Well

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Enoch walked faithfully with God, and then he was no more, because God took him away. -Genesis 5:24 It is said there are only two certain things in life: death and taxes. But for at least two who lived previously, these two never knew death. Enoch and Elijah never passed »

Your World- and Life-View

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. -Isaiah 5:20 There are a multitude of choices in life. Especially in our prosperous Western Civilization, life offers a cornucopia, a veritable »

Satan Made Me Do It

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour. -1 Peter 5:8 A perfectly reasonable excuse? You think? Of course, making this excuse assumes there is such a thing as Satan, or a master devil. Many self-described Christians do not believe »

Summer Lesson

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“He told them this parable: ‘Look at the fig tree and all the trees. When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know summer is near. Even so, when you see these things [signs] happening you know that the kingdom of God is near.’ -Luke 21:29-31 “Summertime and »

Family Gone?

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“God sets the solitary [the lonely] in families, he leads out the prisoners [of loneliness] with singing, but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched [lonely] land. -Psalm 68:6 Current statistics claim the most common household in America is a single person, not a family. Can this really be? Even if »

Toe-Tapping Instinct

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! -Psalm 150:6 Music is in the mind and heart of humans. God created music and He imbued it in the heart of the beings He made in His own image. This image includes the instinct to know, love, and make music. In »

Celebrating a Far Better Place

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. -Philippians 3:20 The Apostle Paul was a rightful citizen of a powerful earthly nation, a vast empire; namely, Rome. He called on this fact when he was being persecuted as though he »

Last Breath

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Jesus answered him, ‘Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.’ -Luke 23:43 A few years ago I asked a Navy-Vet and retired ship captain friend who was both older than me and quite ill at that point, “What do you think happens when you take your »

For Where Your Treasure Is

When I think of my father, Paul Anderson, the Bible verse Luke 12:34 comes to mind. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.  My heart has always belonged to my precious daddy, according to my equally precious mama.  She says that I did not even recognize that I had two parents until my father’s home going when I »

God Makes Each One

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to Him. Therefore, I have lent him to the Lord. As long as he lives, he is lent to the Lord. -1 Samuel 1:27-28 Children are a gift from the Lord! From human perspective, »

How Well Do I Know Me?

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, »

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