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Neighbor-Love, part 1

Neighbor-Love, part 1

Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.  Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as ...

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The Gift And The Price

Take what you want, says God to man. Take it, and pay for it.  –Spanish proverb I’ve found this proverb a useful antidote to two common illusions that I encounter in myself and in other people. First, there’s the assumption ...

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I Will Lift Up My Eyes

I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; From where shall my help come?—Psalm 121:1 I’m a farmer, and we’ve come into the busiest part of the year. The days are full and over-full with harvesting and spraying and ...

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God’s Economy

God’s Economy

Money contains all the work and effort of people whom we neither know nor care about. It makes people forget the mutual exchange that takes place in work done and services rendered.—Eberhard Arnold, Mammon and the Living God It’s increasingly ...

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Do Not Put God to the Test

Do Not Put God to the Test

Then the devil took Jesus to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written: “He will command his ...

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Better and Better Off

Better and Better Off

The world would be better off if people tried to become better. And people would become better if they stopped trying to be better off… –Peter Maurin, The Case For Utopia We live in a society that constantly urges us ...

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Not As The World Gives…

Not As The World Gives…

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.–John 14:27 The world offers to sell us peace ...

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Not By Bread Alone

The tempter came to Jesus and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” Jesus answered, “It is written, “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the ...

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Perseverance

Perseverance

Much of life consists of going on day after day, without making much visible progress, doing our work as faithfully as we can with no special reward or recognition.—Sue Bender, Plain and Simple As you know, we consider blessed those ...

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Work, Blasphemy And Reverence

Work, Blasphemy And Reverence

One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.–Proverbs 18:9 To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is ...

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