Watching Eli Manning play the Carolina Panthers yesterday was painful. No it was not because he was sacked seven times in the first half or he was knocked down a dozen more times right as he threw the ball. That was painful enough, but what I also saw was his team no longer trust what…

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This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works – Titus 3:8. Faith’s meanest deed more favor bears Where hearts and wills are weighed Than brightest transports, choicest prayers, Which bloom their hour and fade.  I…

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When I was a young boy my favorite cookie was what my grandmother called “fruit cookies” – essentially fruit cake in cookie form. When I could get away with raiding the cookie tin, I used to store my cookie stash in my jacket, climb a tree, nibble on the cookies, and pretend they gave me super human…

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                 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. James 1:27. I’m no expert on church dogma, whatever the religion or faith. But if I were asked whether a dogma or canon measures up to…

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If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. Luke 9:23. I recognize that not all my readers can go all the way in believing Christ died on the Cross to sacrifice for our sins. Some don’t follow him at all, and many Christians…

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