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Author: Jan Withers

A Quantum Kingdom

This Sunday is the last Sunday of the Church Year.  In the past there was a countdown at the end of the Church Year–the third last Sunday, the second last Sunday, and finally the last Sunday–as if the footsteps of doom were drawing closer and closer.  The readings for those Sundays were of impending
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Standing on the Edge

There was a purported Chinese curse:  May you live in interesting times.  We certainly do.  Think of all of the things going on in our society, many of which we find objectionable.  It is precisely in these interesting times that God has placed us and called us to follow Him--to be a worker in the […]
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A Life of Service

In Vietnam, a platoon of Alpha Company got into firefight just south of the DMZ.  Some of the new men were blasting away with their weapons on full automatic. A Staff Sergeant stood up in the midst of the firefight, walked from hole to hole calming his troops, putting their weapons on semi.  As he […]
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From Every Tribe and Nation

Me a saint?  You have to be kidding.  God knows all of my faults and failures?  And, if I can't remember them all, my wife can complete the list.  Yet St. Paul can refer to us as those called to be saints.  How can this be?President Franklin Roosevelt began a speech to the Daughters of […]
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