Blogs
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Monday Morning Manna: Breakfast Bob 1951-2018
For sixty-six years and nine months I had a younger brother, my only sibling. To be ten years apart, and for most of our lives, separated by hundreds of miles,…
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Monday Morning Manna: Waiting at the Gate
Heaven is often pictured as having pearly gates at the entrance and upon arrival there, one must enter the gates. Indeed the Bible describes it as such, “twelve gates were…
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Monday Morning Manna: Two Flight Attendants, Two Attitudes
Because I fly many miles, I occasionally get an upgrade to first class. Such was the case last week on both outbound and return flights. Because it was a birthday…
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Monday Morning Manna: Acceptance and Change
As much as we would like to change things, some things are just unchangeably real, and there’s not much we can do about it. To say that in a popular…
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Monday Morning Manna: Learning from Five Presidents
I knew five men who served as President of my seminary – one while I was a student, three while I was on the faculty, and one who was Interim…
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Monday Morning Manna: How to Pray, and How Not to Pray Following a Tragedy
It happened again last week – another mass shooting, this time at the Santa Fe High School in southeast Texas. Previously, this High School was perhaps best known for its…
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Monday Morning Manna: Abuse and Divorce
In our early years, both my wife and I were taught that divorce was wrong, and less than God’s best. At our wedding we were given grandparental advice, “Don’t ever…
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Monday Morning Manna: Prayer Opens Heaven
What is the result of prayer? Does it make the pray-er feel better? Yes, but it does more than that. Does it fulfill biblical instructions? Yes, but it does more…
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Monday Morning Manna: How to Treat an Enemy
I don’t have many known enemies, an enemy being one “who is actively opposed or hostile to someone.” As a matter of fact, I may have more unknown enemies than…
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Monday Morning Manna: Internet Praying
In recent years I have posted serious prayer requests on social media – twice for my wife’s surgeries, related to her fractured pelvis, and hip replacement, and once for my…