Answered Prayer

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Doug

My niece has been on dialysis for kidney failure for seven years and had to go for treatment three hours per visit three times a week. In answer to many a fervent prayer, she got a kidney and had the transplant just this last Friday. We are still praying that she will accept the new kidney and that it will be fully functional. She is still in the hospital recovering from surgery this week.  Continue reading →

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Teaching Others

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Doug

Someone posted the following to Facebook: “You can’t continue to hurt good people and believe God is ok with your actions.” While I would tend to agree with this statement, the poster went on to comment something to the effect that “bible huggers” were hurting her and that God would not approve. It seems that this Facebook friend was making the error that is all too common among people when they are faced with the truth found in the bible. They want to reject the bible and create God on their own terms because the bible “hurts” them.  Continue reading →

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Thankfulness

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Doug

We just got our water back on to the house. It has been off for about 30 hours. What a tragedy for us; we could barely get along. Did you ever stop and think just how blessed we are in this country, that we can’t even do without some of the things that God has blessed us with. We have so much to be thankful for it’s hard to count all our blessings. November is thought of as the month to be especially thankful, but, really, we should be thankful all the time and thank God regularly in prayer. Continue reading →

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Patience

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Doug

Been feeling poorly with cold-like symptoms the last couple of days, but am beginning to feel better now, I think. I have that feeling of slight elation that comes when you first start to feel better from the flu or cold or such like. God seems to have built into us a mechanism of hope that when things have been going badly, we begin to feel even better than normal as we mend. This is not from medicine, I use very little of that, but just a physical feeling I get when I am getting over something. Continue reading →

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Greed Kills

Posted on November 7, 2015 by Doug

Greed is one of the most perverse qualities that a human being can have and should be something we strive to overcome in ourselves if we hope to serve God in our lives. The bible has much to say about it. In Luke 11:39 Jesus told the pharisees that they strove to make themselves appear pure and holy on the outside but on the inside they were full of “greed and wickedness.” We should be careful this doesn’t characterize us as we seek to serve God. Continue reading →

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