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A devastating earthquake rocked the island of Japan in March 2011. Aftershocks have continued to plague the country and the world has come together to aid Japan in its time of distress. One of the surprising sources of this aid is South Korea. The Japanese and Korean people have long held a strong animosity…

LOVE “There was once a Christian counselor who met with a man who was having difficulty in his marriage. With sensitivity to the man’s concerns, the counselor told him that the answer was to love his wife just as commanded in Ephesians 5:25. The troubled husband replied that he just could not do that…

Elie Wiesel says, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” --The Week, August 6, 2010 p. 17 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell This may help explain our tendency to hate this year the same people we were enough in love with to marry at some point in our past. We love and hate…

Enemies I liked Church fellowships when I was a boy. After the meal, the kids always ran outside to play in the backyard of the church. It adjoined cotton fields to the south and east. We waited until it was pitch dark, then we started playing "hide and go seek." The cotton fields were "out of bounds,"…

Estel's Prayer "Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, "Vengeance IS Mine, I will repay," says the Lord." Romans 12:19 I learned a real lesson in grace as I sat on Estel's couch one hot summer afternoon. "Pastor, I pray to God that He doesn't take…

DILIGENCE In the last five years there have been at least 35 documented cases of animals escaping from the Los Angeles Zoo. Most of them just got out of their cages into secondary holding areas, others broke lose into the general population area where the visitors roam, but a few managed to escape the…

Bob Gass tells this story about the Berlin Wall when it was still standing: One morning some East Berliners dumped a truckload of garbage on the west side of the Wall. The West Berliners responded with a great idea. They filled a truck with canned goods, medicine, clothes and other nonperishable items…

Is there a God? Why believe in God - pp. 107-110 Forgiving - p. 189 Love for enemy - p. 194 Relating the Bible to life - p. 197 The way of life leads through death - p. 198 Ernest Gordon, To End All Wars

Jesus prayed: forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. In the novel "The Great Hunger," a newcomer comes to a farm community. He refuses all friendship with his neighbors and puts out the no trespassing sign. One day a little child from the town climbs underneath his fence…