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COVID-19 Prayer

For God’s people, difficult times call for prayer rather than panic. We have glorious promises, such as Romans 5:3-11 and 8:28. That’s why Proverbs says, “The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.” We aren’t foolish, but we are bold, because “God has not given us the spirit of fear,

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Electric Hornets

Proverbs 11:2 “When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.” How many hornets does it take to power a digital watch? In the case of the Oriental hornet, six hornets can generate enough electricity to run the watch. Entomologists at Tel Aviv University have been studying Oriental hornets. They have been

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COVID-19 Good News

The COVID-19 panic-demic continues, with about 7,000 fatalities globally and 85 in America. There is plenty of good news in the midst of the COVID-19 panic-demic,    * COVID-19 is still a small thing compared to influenza, which has infected 36 to 51 million, hospitalized about one-half million and killed 22,000 and 55,000 in America alone since October (“Influenza

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Moon Puzzle

Psalm 148:3 “Praise ye Him, sun and moon: praise Him, all ye stars of light.” Our moon is moving away from the earth at the rate of four centimeters per year. That might not seem like much. However, that rate of movement away from the earth presents problems for those who believe the earth and

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Emerging Church Pastor Says Young People Need a Calling, Not Rules

Rock & roll loving Steven Furtick of Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, says that what this generation needs is not more rules to live by, but a calling to live for (“Charlotte Pastor,” The Christian Post, Nov. 26, 2010). This is typical emerging church philosophy. In reality, what youth need is both a call to real discipleship and biblical

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“Gay Christianity” Movement Invades Mennonite Churches

“Posture Shift is a ‘gay Christianity’ Conference held by a ministry called Lead Them Home that seeks to change how the church views homosexuality and pushes for full inclusivity of gays, lesbians, and other sexually-confused individuals such as ‘transgenders.’ Many of the Posture Shift speakers and team overlap with the Revoice Conference and one conference

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Two Arks

Exodus 2:3 “And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.” Few people realize that the Bible actually speaks of not one Ark but

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Amazing Alders

Genesis 1:12 “And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.” As a boy, I liked to watch the coal being unloaded from the railway wagons at the power station sidings.

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