Monthly Archives: February 2021

Matthew 19:16-30 Our lives are filled with all kinds of struggles.  Some babies are born with heart problems and other birth defects, some caused by the drugs mothers and fathers have used.  Some people are born without the ability to do the things they want to do. Charlie Brown of Peanuts is one of these.  He wants to be a baseball pitcher and a baseball team manager.  He has his struggles and he has team members with their own struggles. …..

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Matthew 17:1-13 A few weeks ago I did a funeral for one of my high school classmates.  I shared some of my youthful day’s memories of my friend, talking about some of the things we had done together.  We played a board game called Carom.  He was part of a large family, as was I.  We went to Sunday School and worshiped together.  We finished high school together.  We each took our own road of life, but we remained friends. …..

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Luke 9:1-12 I have several bird feeders close to our home. In the winter I have a huge number of birds that come to the feeders for food. There are many different species of birds. The chickadee darts to the feeder and flies away. The chickadee is small and uses its speed to get a seed from the feeder and goes to a tree to crack it open on a limb. The finch family comes in bunches to eat together…..

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Luke 8:26-39 In 1975 C. S. Lewis wrote a book titled “Fern-Seed and Elephants and other Essays on Christianity.” In this book, he wrote a section on forgiving and excusing.  “Forgiving does not mean excusing.  Many people seem to think it does.  They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who has cheated or bullied them you are trying to make out that there was really no cheating or no bullying.  But if that were so, there would…..

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