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STUNNED BY GRACE by Max Lucado I've never been surprised by God's judgment, but I'm still stunned by his grace. God's judgment has never been a problem for me. In fact, it always seemed right. Lightning bolts on Sodom. Fire on Gomorrah. Good job, God. Egyptians swallowed in the Red Sea. They had it coming.…

> >> > > >This was written by a teen in Bagdad, Arizona. > >> > > > > >> > > >Now I sit me down in school > >> > > >Where praying is against the rule > >> > > >For this great nation under God > >> > > >Finds mention of Him very odd. > >> > > > > >> > > >If Scripture now the class recites, > >> > > >It…

A Revolutionary Response to God By the mercies of God . . . present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God. Romans 12:1 Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer, was the one who said the earth revolved around the sun, not vice versa. As revolutionary as the thoughts of Copernicus were…

I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes. Romans 1:16 Recommend Reading Romans 10:8-13 The word "salvation" appears 162 times in the Bible (NKJV). In both the Old and the New Testaments, it conveys the idea of being saved from a terrible…

5/2/2004 A 70-year-old grandfather was asked by his young grandson how things have changed since he was a kid. His reply is worth reading. "Well, let me think a minute. I was born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, contact lenses, Frisbees and the pill. There weren't things…

What is true in nature is also true in providence. A man is idle and neglects his business. He sleeps in the morning when he ought to be at work. He is dilatory and careless about his affairs. So, as the inevitable consequence, he goes from bad to worse and is soon bankrupt. As he sows, so he reaps.…

Galatians 6:1 does not mean that we are to spy out our brother’s faults. There is a story of John Wesley going several times to a certain town where he thought that there was a band of earnest Christian people. But he was met by a brother who told him how dead they all were, what little life there was…

Michael Faraday said that there was enough latent electricity in a single drop of water for an ordinary flash of lightning. What reserves of destructive force there must be in and around the globe! God’s dreadful armies lie in ambush everywhere; what if I say God’s bodyguard is sleeping in His guard…

I like the remark of the people who were requested to accept a Universalist as a minister. They said, “You have come to tell us that there is no hell. If your doctrine is true, we certainly do not need you; and if it is not true, we do not want you. Either way, we can do without you.” It is a most dreadful…

Turn to Acts 12, where you have the record of Peter lying asleep in the prison, watched by soldiers. And yet at the dead of night, an angel of the Lord came into the prison, smote Peter on the side, bade him bind on his sandals and gird himself, and follow him. Peter went through all the doors of the…

One day, many years back, a thick darkness came over the United States. Now and then in London we have dreadfully dark days for which we can scarcely account, but this was quite a new experience for the New Englanders, and caused a terrible sensation. So exceedingly black was it that the barn door fowls…

Trusting to our own judgment often means following our own whims. But faith seeks direction from infallible wisdom, and so it is led in a right way. God knows your capacity better than you do; ask Him to choose your inheritance for you. If the flowers were to revolt against the gardener, and each one…

When we light a fire, we always put the straw and kindling at the bottom. When we first light it, there is flame and a great deal of smoke. But afterward, when the flame gets hold of the coals, there is not so much blaze, but there is really more heat. You may have lost some of your flame and smoke,…

When your adventurous spirit has sought to climb some lofty mountain, delighted with the prospect you scale many and many a precipice. Onward you climb up the rocky crags until at last you arrive at the verge of the snow and ice. There, in the midst of precipices that scarcely know a bottom and of summits…

For over a year the driver got away with driving in the HOV lane without a passenger. Perhaps it was because he had a lifelike mannequin, complete with a face mask seat belted in the passenger seat. When he was ticketed, it was because the CHP officer S. Sullinger couldn’t see if there was a passenger…

Arjanit Mehana said his elderly neighbor never liked his dog Simba, because the animal was a pit bull. He said Simba was always friendly, but the elderly woman called him mean and looked at him fearfully. Mehanna said the woman changed her mind when Simba helped save her life. He said one day he and…

Bodhi Johnson, who has a tattoo with the words “Only God can judge me” on his chest. In an attempt to avoid the judgment of others, he escaped from a high security prison in Queensland, Australia where he was serving six years for causing the death of another person. I have never understood why a criminal…

Cairo's International Garden Municipal Park’s zoo disputes that their two “zebras” are actually donkeys with painted stripes, even though Mahmoud Sarhan, posted images of animals on Facebook that resemble donkeys, not zebras. According to a news report, in 2009, a zoo in Gaza did paint stripes on a donkey,…

South African officials made a gruesome discovery. They found the remains of three men along with a high-powered rifle, an axe, and some shoes and clothing. It appears that the three had slipped into an animal reserve to poach rhinos when instead they were eaten by a pride of lions. Jesus warned us that…

The average person speaks about 16,000 words in a day. The less chatty speaking only 700 words with the most talkative topping out at 47,000 words a day. --Richard Knox, “Study: Men Talk Just as Much as Women.” All things Considered, NPR radio. Accessed 72621. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11762186…

An unnamed Ohio woman called 911 and reported, “I have a boa constrictor stuck to my face.” Firefighters arrived to find the 45-year-old woman lying on the driveway with the serpent coiled around her neck. They couldn’t pry the snake off her nose and finally cut its head off with a pocket knife to free…

One thing that is on every calendar is the time of our death. Many news outlets prepare obituaries of famous people ahead of their deaths so they will be prepared to go to print early when they do die. A French public radio station mistakenly published some of those obituaries, including Queen Elizabeth…

A wealthy Indonesian man and his wife shared photos from a plane where they were the only passengers because he bought every ticket to protect them from COVID-19. Richard Muljadi, who is known for his extravagant lifestyle, posted the pictures showing himself and his wife traveling to Bali in an empty…

Over 20 years ago Tom Cook and Joe Feeney decided to split any lottery winnings they might have in the future, and they shook on it. In June of 2020 Tom Cook won, and true to his word, he is splitting his $22 million winnings with Feeney. Cook said, "A handshake is a handshake, man," —Jim L. Wilson https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/23/powerball-lottery-winners-wisconsin-friends-split-jackpot/5495208002/…