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Sunday is a comin’! (by S.M. Lockridge)

THE MIDDLE C OF LIFE You and I need a middle C. Haven't you had enough change in your life? Relationships change. Health changes. The weather changes. But the Yahweh who ruled the earth last night is the same Yahweh who rules it today. Same convictions. Same plan. Same mood. Same love. He never changes.…

Search Committee’s Reference checks We do not have a happy report to give. We have not been able to find a suitable candidate for this church, though we have one promising prospect. Thank you for your suggestions. We have followed up on each one with interviews or by calling at least three references.…

R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

KIDS IN CHURCH 3-year-old Reese: "Our Father, Who does art in heaven, Harold is His name. Amen." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A little boy was overheard praying: "Lord, if you can't make me a better boy, don't worry about it. I'm having a real good time like I am." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~…

How many Christians are like the miser who never feels sure about the safety of his money, even though he has locked up the iron safe, and secured the room in which he keeps it, and locked up the house, and bolted and barred every door! In the dead of night, he thinks he hears a footstep, and tremblingly…

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.…

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…

How happy are we to find rest in a person! This is warm and substantial comfort. You cannot rest in the words of a doctrine as you can in the bosom of a person. Take a poor child that is lost in the street. Talk to it upon cheering themes. These ought to comfort it; but the little one goes on crying.…

I remember hearing of a pious minister who was asked to speak one day upon the subject of joy in God. He stood up and said, “I am sorry that I have been requested to speak upon this topic; for the fact is, I am not walking in the light, but I am crying, ‘Restore to me the joy of your salvation’ (Psa…

Some people are always fretting and fuming; they appear to have been born in stormy weather, and to be perpetually agitated in mind so that they cannot rest. Only the other day, a gardener I knew of was complaining greatly of the heavy rain, which had done some damage to the garden where he was working.…

Without peace you cannot grow. A shepherd may find good pasture for his flock, but if his sheep are hunted about by wild dogs so that they cannot rest, they will become mere skin and bone. The Lord’s lambs cannot grow if they are worried and harried; they must enjoy the rest with which the Lord makes…

A Canadian woman said her view of safety was challenged when a meteorite crashed through her roof. Ruth Hamilton said she was asleep when she became vaguely aware that her dog was barking at something. Suddenly Hamilton said there was an explosion which showered her with debris. When she turned on the…

The Anxiety and Depression Association of America has found a connection between anxiety and sleeping problems. More than 40 million Americans suffer from chronic, long-term sleep disorders. —Jim L. Wilson and Carlos Andres Rodriguez https://adaa.org/understanding-anxiety/related-illnesses/sleep-disorders…

Research indicates that the position you sleep in affect overall health. The study found that 47% of Americans sleep in the fetal position which rests the spine and helps clear waste in the brain that contributes to the development of Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease. Sleeping on your side in the log…

A sleep researcher with the United States Army has discovered a new disorder caused by the stress service members encountered on the battlefield. Col. Vincent Mysliwiec said he had heard reports about an unusual sleep disorder but did not actually see it until he encountered it in a sleep laboratory.…

The Golden Globe Awards, pandemic style in 2021 had the nominees at home watching the show and being filmed simultaneously. The twitterverse went crazy when it appeared that Al Pacino was sleeping (or looking down so it appeared that his eyes were closed) during his category-- Best Actor in a Television…

The most common way to think about getting enough rest is getting enough sleep. However medical internist Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith said the idea of rest should be considered more like the word ‘restoration’ which is vital to many different areas of life. For Dalton-Smith, rest encompasses physical mental…

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness affecting over 40 million adults in the United States every year! To compound this, it is common for someone with an anxiety disorder to suffer from episodes of depression and insomnia. —Jim L.…

A study by Harvard University suggests that changing regular sleep patterns increases the risk of heart disease or heart attacks. The study found that if when the difference was more than 90 minutes during an average week, the chances of heart disease doubled over a five year period. After controlling…

Our work occupies many of our waking hours. A new study shows that for many of us it also occupies a lot of our sleeping hours. 65% of American workers dream about their jobs and 47% say that thinking about work keeps them up at night. Sometimes it is difficult to find a balance between our work and…

Twenty children in the Louisville, Kentucky area received a surprise donation that was a dream come true. A partnership including the Boy and Girls Clubs of Kentucky, a home store, the Hope to Dream Program, and a local ministry known as Sleep in Heavenly Peace, provided the children with brand new beds,…

The accepted rule is eight hours of sleep a night is necessary to maintain good health. A study in California has found that there may be a biological reason why some people need less rest than others. Researchers studied the sleeping habits of a 12 members of a family who regularly sleep for about 4.5…