Tag: Sin
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If Satan’s Got Your Number
If Satan’s Got Your Number, Rest Assured He Will Call You. While still cowboying for a living, I had a little mare named Crazy Alice. She was a stocky, well-bred sorrel mare and a good ranch horse. Crazy Alice got her name as an homage to the horse in John Wayne’s movie The Cowboys. The…
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The Danger of Daily Bible Reading
There is a great, severe, and terrible danger to reading the Bible regularly. There is no question that this is the case. There is no doubt that such is the reality of the effort and time spent therein. This danger is a special kind, unlike any other in the world. Regularly reading the Bible is…
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The Death of the Snake King…
I recently saw a headline (not the one I used) that caught my eye (see news article here). There was a man in Malaysia known as the “Snake King” because of his death-defying stunts where he did performances with deadly cobras for the public. Mr. Ali Khan Samsuddin spent more than 25 years working with…
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Dancing With My Roomba
Several years ago my mother gave me her old Roomba. This automatic robotic vacuum cleaner has been a blessing. I was complaining to her about the way our dog Roxy sheds. (According to my daughter, “She sheds like she’s dying!” Not sure where she got that… Me, she got that from me.) No more tumbling…
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Lessons from Romans
If every Christian would regularly read chapters one, two, and three and remember they fit in there with everyone else, Christianity would be better for it. Paul seems to write every epistle with a deep awareness of who he once was and who he would still be were it not for the gospel of Jesus…
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