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What the heart knows that the head doesn’t

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. – Blaise Pascal I’ve been reading your comments from yesterday’s Catch and watching us all stumble gracefully over one of my most favorite people who … Continue reading

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24 Green Street

The paint is old and peeling The shutters show some cracks There’s a heavy limb on the apple tree That’s got to be cut back There’s some water in the cellar A little sagging in the floor But this house … Continue reading

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Faith Hall of Fame

Step 8: Are looking closely at the lives of famous men and women of the Bible who turned out to be ordinary sinners like us. If you made a truly honest movie of the Bible, most of the Old Testament … Continue reading

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The Red Balloon

The Red Balloon by A. Lamorisse, was first published as Le Ballon Rouge, in France in 1956, and became an instant children’s classic. The book is a companion product to the 34-minute short film by the same title that many … Continue reading

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Attack of the giant grey moth

Well, God concluded one of our hardest weeks with a little comic relief. We were folding clothes and chatting when a large winged creature flew in through the open kitchen window last night and started flapping around on the floor. … Continue reading

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“Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there,” the Father said to his servants. “We will worship and then we will come back to you.” (Genesis 22:5) The father placed a bundle of wood on … Continue reading

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One solitary life affects billions

Caleb … Jonah … Zacchaeus … Hosea … These are the men of the Bible we have talked about this week. After spending a week on women of the Bible, we thought we would look into some men, but especially … Continue reading

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Man, 85, takes on giants

This week we’re going to look at some men of the Bible, in particular some of the more obscure, lesser known – those who probably wouldn’t show up on everybody’s “A” list of great men of the Bible. Remembering, of … Continue reading

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Living in the lowlands

“Here’s to fragility and recognizing the treasure that can be found living in the lowlands in the place where faith and doubt, courage and fear, surrender and struggle, bravery and timidity and belief and unbelief happily intermingle and coexist quite … Continue reading

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The dark and lonely closet of regret

No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God. Luke 9:32 When you begin to step out into your dynamic future (see yesterday’s Catch), regret becomes something tied … Continue reading

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