Grace
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Do you remember getting your first ticket? I’m not talking about a ticket to a show, movie, or concert. I had just turned 31 years old in February of 2025. My wife and I were headed to an early morning appointment in Roanoke and were taking the backroad there. It was in the morning around…
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We’ve all stood around a casket at the closing of a funeral service as it ends at the cemetery. Nowadays, the family is ushered off before the casket is lowered into the ground where it will rest. The family has already seen their loved one for the last time before the official and final closing…
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The United States attempted to not get involved in either world war, but due to the direct attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States had no other choice than to enter onto the battlefield. As hundreds of thousands of soldiers went to both fronts to fight the Axis Powers, there was another battle on the…
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They say you can get everything from Walmart. For the most part that saying is true. However, there are many things that you can’t get there, but there is something that you can’t get from any store or business. Wisdom. It can’t be bought or sold. It can’t be found on shelves, including bookshelves. Knowledge…
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Both the secular and Christian world views the heart of man as the center of the experience and expression of life. We use many different common phrases in the church and outside of it regarding the heart. For example, if we are speaking about good intentions, we may say that someone has a “heart of…
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As the Nazi party rose to power during the late 1930’s in Germany, many were silent. However, one name is recognized although there were many who stood against the Nazi party and the evils they committed. That name is Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor in Germany who is perhaps most known for his…
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My mom grew up poor on River Road in Amherst, Virginia. She lived a good life, but they didn’t have an abundance of much of anything. My mom’s father was a deer processor and a great one. Both of her parents worked to provide, but they like others who lived on that road were called…
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Practical Christian living begins and ends with the preeminence of Christ. The preeminence of Jesus Christ is His supremacy and sufficiency over all things, in all things, and through all things. When Christ is not preeminent in our lives, our practical living will suffer. For example, our Bible reading or study suffers when Christ is…
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I’m a control freak. So are you. This is why we are impatient when there is heavy traffic. It is why we get upset when we spill, drop, or break things. When the check engine light comes on and we get anxious or angry. One more thing. Great. Just my luck. Those are the things…
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The Puritan John Owen wrote, “On Christ’s glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes and I will be more and more crucified to this world. It will become to me…
