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The Drama
This has been a significant Easter. A season, a weekend, that has altered my perspective by reminding me that we are all living, not a mundane, meaningless existence, but in a drama that began before creation and reached its most critical point two thousand years ago. It is the story of Life and Death. Last…
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fallen flower
“For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof fadeth away: But the word of the LORD endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.” I Peter 1:24-25 A friend of mine…
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The Power of Stillness
“There is no spectacle in all the Bible so sublime as the silent Savior answering not a word to the men who were maligning Him, and whom He could have laid prostrate at His feet by one look of Divine power, or one word of fiery rebuke. But He let them say and do their…
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beautiful stranger
My friend Alexis and I poured milk for about a hundred people last night, at a dinner down on Drouillard… and if you know Windsor, you know that’s not exactly high society. New Song Church serves dinner for anyone who will come on Friday nights, so we’re talking homeless people and a lot of folks…
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Invasion
Life is mostly predictable, but now and then something BIG happens. Reading Matthew 28 last night, I was struck by the angel. Throughout Scripture “the angel of the LORD” sometimes visits men, intervening in wars and upheaval, battling demonic powers, bringing messages from the throne of almighty God. And now he comes again: “And behold,…
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the song is sweet
“In Ramah was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.” If you’re familiar with Matthew’s account of Jesus’ birth, you know what that verse is all about. It was an ancient prophecy, fulfilled when Herod ordered that all…