Let’s Stay Together

I’ve been banging on about faithfulness fairly often this year and I guess for good reason.  In a time when everything dear to me has been put up for grabs and uncertainty is the only certain thing in my life, appreciating the quality of faithfulness and how I often fail but can succeed at it. […]

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My Gratitude

I remember from a very early age singing a hymn called Count Your Blessings.  Looking back the lyrics are fairly basic and simple – count your blessings, name them one by one, count your many blessings, see what God has done.  As ever with the hymns that are sung time and time again from childhood […]

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Hospitality: A Challenge

Coming from a Sabbath-keeping church tradition and then seeing things from a different perspective, it’s sometimes shameful seeing some of the conduct that we maintain in that tradition. One of them that’s particularly shameful is on a typical Sabbath service at the end of the morning study and the moderator/superintendent looks to give a welcome […]

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To Be Honest With You

There is a lot to be said about honesty.  It is a value not always forthcoming but highly appreciated by those who receive it in most given occasions and we are informed that honesty is the best policy. I’d like to suggest though, that in as much as honesty is a good quality to have, […]

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Love Lifted Me

Apparently according to the calendars of some this is a day to celebrate romantic love and express that with the appropriate sentiments shared with that special significant other. I never bought into the day myself for two reasons.  I come from a background that says basically if it’s not in the Word, then there’s no […]

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