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"Only Your Dyin' Will Tell" I began by quoting the words of John Lennon in his song "Imagine." Let me end by quoting the words of a song made famous by another rock group, this one called Blood, Sweat and Tears. In the 60s they wrote a song called "And When I Die" that hit the top of the charts. The…

hymn by Helen H. Gates

When I was visiting one of our sick friends he uttered a sentence that stuck to me. He said, “I have had some education for heaven in attending the Metropolitan Tabernacle.” “How is that?” “Because I have been used to worship with a great company of godly people, used to join in the songs of great multitudes,…

Fruit does not start from the tree perfectly ripe at once. First comes a flower, then a tiny formation that shows that the flower has set. Then a berry appears, but it is very sour. You may not gather it. Leave it alone a little while, and allow the sun to ripen it. By and by it fills out, and you have…

THE STORY I was born in 1725, and I died 1807. The only godly influence in my life, as far back as I can remember, was my mother, whom I had for only seven years. When she left my life through death, I was virtually an orphan. My father remarried, sent me to a strict military school, where the severity…

Perhaps there is a wife whose husband has accepted an appointment in India. He has been long away, and the years of his forced absence have been weary to her. She has had loving messages from him and kind letters, but often has she sighed, and her heart has looked out of the windows toward the east,…

How to Abide and How to hear God’s will

A song of thanksgiving

CCLI Song Number 7119315 Author(s): Jonathan David HelserMelissa HelserMolly SkaggsJake Stevens Recorded by: The Martin Family

Rev. Jim Hughes shares the story of Gethsemane in drama and song. For more information, or to have Rev. Hughes share at your church, check out https://jimhughesministries.org.

While some found the emergence of billions of cicadas in the spring and summer of 2021 annoying, David Rothenberg, a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, used the opportunity for man and nature to work together. While the insects swarmed all around, Rothenberg…

Joshua Rogers tells about the time he, his wife, and their two young daughters were listening to Disney songs. The next song was a sentimental love song "I See the Light" from “Tangled.” Joshua walked over to his wife, who was in the kitchen, took her in his arms and started dancing with her slowly.…

Stella Wedell went on vacation to Spain with her family when she was 12 years old. ON that trip she lost a cassette tape of her favorite music. Wedell couldn’t find the tape and wasn’t even sure where she lost it. 20 years later, Wedell visited Spain again and went to see an exhibition by a British artist…

A county district attorney charged three Oklahoma jailers with cruelty to a prisoner after they forced inmates to listen to “Baby Shark,” a popular children’s song, on repeat. An investigation by Oklahoma County authorities found that the three jailers at the Oklahoma County Jail forced four prisoners…

Researchers at Time Magazine searched American copyright records in the U. S. Copyright office for the number of times favorite Christmas songs have been recorded since 1978. The overwhelming choice as America’s favorite Christmas song is Silent Night. It has been recorded 733 times, almost twice as…

While protests filled the streets of many cities in the United States, a peaceful movement began on the streets of Nashville, Tennessee centering on prayer and worship. The initiative began when 1,000 churches partnered for thirty days of prayer and fasting for the city. Organizers had a vision of bringing…

It never ceases to me how critical we can be of some things we might consider bad, wrong, or sinful, while embracing other things that are equally so, that we do not take into consideration. Indeed, we are all hypocrites in one way or another. For example, we live in an age where being “woke” (the latest…

Authorities arrested Eva, a Slovakian woman after she played the same opera song on repeat for 16 years. They charged her with harassment and malicious persecution for forcing neighbors to listen to Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata repeatedly. Neighbors said the woman began playing the song to drown out…

Billy Joe Shaver wrote country music for the superstars, including Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Elvis Presley, and Willie Nelson. All was not well with Billy Joe though. For years he struggled with his addiction to drugs and alcohols. By his own testimony, that addiction ended after he found Jesus Christ.…

Amusement park owners in Japan are taking a possibly impossible step in social distancing. All customers should maintain social distance, keep conversations to a minimum, and keep the mouths closed while on park thrill rides. That is the hard part. One of the rides travels at 112 mph, another is the…

Jeff Gebhart, 47, of Kansas City has offered to pay anyone who can find him a girlfriend a bonus. She must take a survey, no word as to what is in the survey that Jeff approves. She must agree to date him exclusively for one year. And what would that recommending person receive from Jeff? $25,000 is…

In Everyone’s Favorite Space Cowboy, Din Djarin, is fleeing from a post-imperial attack aimed at seizing from him the precious little asset known as “the Child,” who’s often colloquially referred to as “baby Yoda.” As the Mandalorian and his posse make their way to a secret hideout, they discover his…

In Peter Jackson’s rendition of Tolkien’s, The Hobbit, one of the early scenes gives a homey picture of life. Bilbo Baggins, a middle-aged bachelor hobbit, sits down alone one evening at his table in his comfortable home of Bag End. Bilbo loves all trappings of his agrarian civilization. His well-appointed…

Howard Mullen graduated from high school in 1946 and has dedicated his life to serving the community of Pomeroy, Ohio. In 1952 he received his EMT certification and joined the local fire department and then became a sheriff’s deputy in the county. He continued to serve for decades and has never really…