Monthly Archives: May 2015

31 May

No Earthly Good

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Too heavenly minded, and no earthly good. We’ve all heard it. It strikes fear in our hearts that we could become so interested in things that are “holy” that we will become genuine oddballs to our friends and family. I remember the first time I heard the message that Jesus’ death on the cross was payment for our sins and that we needed to ask for His forgiveness and accept that payment for ourselves personally. I had just graduated from…..

23 May

Nobody

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I was just listening to an Ex-Jihadi talk about his experience. He was drawn into becoming a terrorist. He said, “You can go from being a nobody to becoming a hero who will be remembered overnight.” Wow! That struck me for several reasons. First, how do you want to be remembered? Do you want to be remembered for doing something pure evil? Wouldn’t it be better to be forgotten forever than to be remembered for doing something horrible? I remember…..

16 May

Too Thin

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You can never be too thin. Oh, yes, you can. My sister-in-law, Pearl, was a tall, thin, beautiful woman, extremely intelligent. At five foot seven inches tall, she weighed one hundred and twelve pounds. If you are jealous, don’t worry, so was I. Pearl made it look so easy. Then, in her eighties, she developed Hodgkins disease. After chemotherapy, Pearl dropped to eighty pounds. She really was a skeleton with skin, and she had no resources left. After a few…..

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