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Wagner: There is no one and nothing quite like you
You, sir, or you, ma’am, are unique. And unique does not really even begin to describe it adequately enough. It may be better to say that you are a miracle from God and that there is not only no one like you, there is really nothing quite like you.
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‘The time is out of joint’
I have been meditating here in my chair for the last hour; it is 2:16 am now, and I have heard one motor in the vicinity, around 1:30 am. I have been, for a couple of years now, sensitized to sounds which seem out of place, and to scenes which…
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Commerce and Amusement or Simplicity and Discipline?
The tallest buildings in American towns and cities used to be the houses of worship. The cross stood atop Baptist Church steeples, and skyscraping bank buildings did not then jut above them, neither literally nor figuratively. I remember that day. In more than eight decades, I have been an eyewitness…
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Living Water in Christ; Deep Calls to Deep
Music is often an outlet for our deepest emotional needs and feelings.
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“2001: A Space Odyssey” revisited in 2023
Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi film, “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and the introduction of artificial intelligence with its ominous 1968 prophecy, have captured again the attention of current analysts of AI, and especially the matter of thought control and decision-making by robotic machines. These concerned analysts point toward unintended and undesired possible…
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Accountable leadership and moral direction
The New Interpreter’s Bible and Bruce C. Birch’s Commentary on the First and Second Books of Samuel offer important insight relevant for America today, congruent with God’s concern at the beginning of First Samuel, interpreted as being the raising up of faithful and decisive leadership for Israel “to meet the…
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Fatherhood which honors God the Father
Some of this narrative I have told already. Bridger Cotton Mill stood at one end of our street near the railroad tracks, and New Light Free Will Baptist stood at the other. Mama and Daddy worked in the cotton mill, and the three of us walked to New Light Baptist…
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Anticipating the Lord’s return
Dr. Charles Stanley, a few weeks ago, was called home by the Lord he had trusted and served lifelong. In Touch Ministries continues to offer his sermons on NBC from 7:00 to 8:00 on Sunday mornings, and yesterday, I watched and listened to a sermon with the title I have…
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Truth and discernment today
Abraham Lincoln wrote these words in a letter to an Abolitionist friend in 1863:
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Black coffee on the mountaintop
The first thing you should know is that the morning was cold, and I was in short sleeves. Nor could I change into something more suitable since I was already quite literally on top of a mountain by that point, with my clothes many miles away in a snug hotel…
