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1 Samuel 30:8
1 Samuel 30 David’s Wives Are Captured Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid against the Negeb and against Ziklag. They had overcome Ziklag and burned it with fire 2 and taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and…
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John 15:16
John 15:16 The Vine and the Branches 1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes[a] so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word…
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Matthew 25:31-46
Matthew 25:31-46 The Final Judgment 31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 And he…
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“Where two or more…”
I awoke today, the first day of yet another week of holidays, and my prayer has been that God would help me to “redeem the time” . . . I’ll have to explore that phrase soon, it’s a shorthand way to say that I don’t want to waste my time. I awoke, made my coffee,…
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Ken Peters
“Long long ago…” spoken like a wise old man hahahaha I was the one who continued a work begun by my elder brother, John, at our high school John Taylor Collegiate. It was a IVCF bible study group. It was made up of any and all faiths that wished to come along. I was around…
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Galatians 5:16-26
Keep in Step with the Spirit 16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing…
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The Journey
Certain memories remain frozen in time, and as pictures in my mind. Winnipeg, early 80’s . . . Unicity Shopping Centre. Some parts of this memory are drifting into the obscured blurr of a bad memory. But I do remember that I was on my way home from breaking up with my girl friend. I…
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Whistling
When I was a young boy I was allowed to go out and play in our neighbourhood. The general rule to follow was that we were to be home before dark, but there’d also be my father opening the front door, and whistling a pattern of two or three tweets. I can still hear it…
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The Music
Today I was musing with my nephew trying to describe the exciting developments in my life over the past year, and indeed since about 1997. I’m 53 and my nephew is 19. For reasons not entirely within my control he has spent most all of those years NOT in my life, and I’m only just…