Today we begin Memorial Day Weekend. We not only honor those who  gave their lives  in service to our country, we also honor those who served and made it through the horrors of war to return home. My father and Suzy’s father both served in WW II and Korea. The two men were hardly alike.…

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He said to them, “Suppose one of you has only one sheep and  it falls in a pit on the sabbath; will you not lay hold of it and lift it out?” — Matthew 12:11. When I was a trial lawyer in Arkansas, there was one jury instruction that  the Judge gave to the jury in…

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And this is the boldness we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. — 1 John 5:14. The author of 1 John doesn’t promise we will get what we ask God, but he promises that God does hear us. Many times just being heard is all we…

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The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, “Look a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners.” — Matthew 11:19. Human nature is a funny thing. People are always on the lookout for what someone does wrong, not what someone does right. First, they criticize John for eating locusts…

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Those who say, “I love God,” and hate their brothers and sisters, are liars; …. — 1 John 4:20. The author of 1 John doesn’t mince words. Apparently, he felt it necessary to be blunt about the hypocrisy of professing to love God, but finding it in their hearts to hate certain brothers and sisters. Do…

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