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Walking The Good Road
Following Jesus: "Creator-Sets-Free"
Somehow, the beginning of a new year stimulates us to make resolutions. Lose a few pounds, start a new habit, seek to make a more positive impact on the people around you. If you began the New Year like that, you may by now already feel like you have failed. You would be in good …
“Watch out,” my friend shouted, telling me in no uncertain terms to pull the car over. He had noticed that I had drifted toward oncoming traffic, warning me just in time to move back to the right lane. Our families were returning from a few days of vacation after Christmas. Unfortunately, I had not felt …
Who can expect to receive help from God? A common saying states that “God helps those who help themselves!” The authority with which this assertion is made sounds as if these words are taken straight from the Bible. But is it really a true and biblical statement? If we look at Scripture, we find that …
A survey of British teenagers in the mid-1970s found that the majority thought that “Amazing Grace” was a love song about a girl named Grace. Now, some 30 years later, the song has been recorded in more then 3,200 different versions. Most of these recordings have been made since Judy Collins had a surprise pop …
In the last few years both movies and musical versions of Victor Hugo’s novel “Les Miserables” have been watched by millions of people. They tell the story of Jean Valjean, a French prisoner, who had been sentenced to 19 years of hard labor for the crime of stealing bread. The injustice of the sentence and …
