Monthly Archives: June 2020

Acts 7:51-60, 8:1-3 The definition of hate covers a large range of feelings.   Hate is to dislike intensely or passionately.  Hate is to feel extreme aversion for, or extreme hostility and to detest.  Hate is to have intense dislike.  Hate is to loathe or abhor. In our human history hate has been one of the most destructive viruses in the human family.  Hate has produced murders, wars, divisions and broken lives.  What has caused this death-dealing virus in our…..

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Deuteronomy 5:21 Since March of this year the coronavirus has shut down much of life’s activity: closed businesses, churches, sporting events and people have lost jobs. Our economy was doing great.  People had jobs before this.  Businesses were growing.  Out of envy and covetousness a nation used germ warfare on the world, even at the expense of their own people. When God gave Moses the Ten Commandments for the covenant community, he made a special one out of the ten…..

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Jeremiah 27:1-22 God uses many things in our journey of life to get our attention.  God shows himself in so many ways to us.  The truth is we are looking so much at the world we have become blind to God.  He sends us messages, but we are so busy listening to the sounds of the world we no longer hear what God is saying to us.  Time, places and names change on the stage of time, but our problems…..

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Jeremiah 24:1-10 We don’t live long until we can look back at life and see we have come through some hard times.  What gave us the strength of character — spiritual and moral — to get through the rough patches that come with being alive?   In her book “Raspberry Kingdom,” Renee Hermanson tells us that to get through the rough patches just take the time to journal.  That by writing things down we learn how we got through those rough…..

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