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March 17, 2019

My Loaves and Fishes

God has given me the gift of writing. I receive responses from readers telling how they were blessed by the messages I’ve written. I am amazed at how God makes sure...

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March 16, 2019

The Good Old Days

As my wife and I anticipate the upcoming wedding of our only child, we have begun to reminisce about “the good old days” when our daughter was a toddler, and about...

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March 15, 2019

Building Together

As the children finished lunch on our field trip, a few younger ones drifted over and started building with the large blocks. They worked together to build small walls and towers,...

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March 14, 2019

A Father’s Love

I love my father. He is an ordinary man. He did not have great wealth, but he did not waver in his efforts to make sure his children could be successful....

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March 13, 2019

God Is Calling

I struggled for a long time with whether I should become an ordained minister. I often heard other people talk about hearing the voice of God; but though I felt a...

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March 12, 2019

A Joyful Noise!

As a teenager in the 1980s, I got swept up in the punk and new-wave-music craze. Even though punk was supposed to be anti-fashion, there really was a certain “look” that...

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March 11, 2019

In the Footsteps of Jesus

My dad was surefooted as a mountain goat. I never saw him stumble. As a boy, I would try to step in his steps when we walked, though it was difficult...

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March 10, 2019

Citizens of Heaven

In 2010, four of us from Nigeria were accepted to do doctoral work in Washington, DC. The paperwork was complete, and all we needed were our visas. I was the last...

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March 9, 2019

Songs in the Night

As I turn on the barn lights and gather the cows for their early morning milking, a few sparrows begin a soft chatter in the milking-parlor rafters. They remind me of...

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March 8, 2019

Compassionate Friends

My friend Virginia was overwhelmed and exhausted, having to go to work each day and also care for her husband, who was confined at home with terminal cancer. Tearfully, she would...

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