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“So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.”     — Genesis 12:4 Can you fathom holding onto a promise for twenty-four years? Surely, ...

“Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.” Norman Vincent Peale When I was in junior high school, one of my closest friend’s fathers decided to surprise his wife with homemade fried chicken. His kids had ...

How sweet your words taste to me; they are sweeter than honey.             Psalm 119:103 I love baking with my daughter; it is one of my favorite ways to spend time with her. We talk about the ingredients – how ...

“The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.”             -Galatians 5:22 There are few things more precious than listening to hundreds of children sing about the fruit of the spirit; yet, that ...

“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...