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Opening prayer God is peace, the principle of all kinds of communion. Let us extol peace with songs of peaceful praise. It is God-who-is-Peace who brings all things into unity, who is the cause of every agreement, who is the author of all harmony. Gospel reading: Matthew 24:36-44 (read on...

On December 11, 1792, a baby was born into the family Mohr in snow-clad Salzburg, Austria. He was named Josef, and as a boy he sang as a chorister in the cathedral choir of his native city. In 1815, Josef was ordained by the Roman Catholic bishop of Salzburg and two years later became assistant...

God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ . . . —Galatians 6:14 The gospel of Jesus Christ always forces a decision of our will. Have I accepted God’s verdict on sin as judged on the Cross of Christ? Do I have even the slightest interest in the death of...

Genesis 25:27-34 Isaac married Rebekah, who gave birth to twins, Jacob and Esau. After the boys come of age, Jacob tricks Esau out of his birthright. Birthright and Wrong One day when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau arrived home from the wilderness exhausted and hungry. Esau said to Jacob...

“A tree from good stock doesn’t produce scrub fruit nor do trees from poor stock produce choice fruit. A tree is identified by the kind of fruit it produces. Figs never grow on thorns, or grapes on bramble bushes. A good man produces good deeds from a good heart. And an evil man produces...

Start your day with God by never giving into temptation. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Stand guard over your heart, mind and spirit and learn to confess your transgressions before Jesus Christ without hesitation but with reverent prayer and thoughts. Asking God to guide you day in...

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Another thing that distracts us is our passion for vindication. St. Augustine prayed, “O Lord, deliver me from this lust of always vindicating myself.” Such a need for constant vindication destroys our soul’s faith in God. Don’t say, “I must explain myself,” or, “I must get people to...

Genesis 20:1-18 Abraham experiences déjà vu when he introduces his beautiful wife to the local king. In a situation similar to his experience in Egypt, Abraham is faced with the same decision as before. Stuck in a Rut Abraham moved south to the Negev and lived for a while between Kadesh and...

King Jehoram of Judah died when God struck him with a disease that...?

King Asa of Judah died due to a severe disease of what part of his body?

Four men suffering from what disease went to surrender to the Syrian army but found their camp abandoned?

Statistics now show that 60 percent of marriages fail. Why do you think that is? It is because we are not marrying suitable people. If a person exploits you and disrespects you during the courtship / dating period, what makes you think anything is going to change after marrying them? During the...

Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” God created man to be master of the life...

HOPE IN THE FACE OF REJECTION Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and...

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As disappointing and disconcerting as the turnout of the US election yesterday, It is a fulfillment of the Biblical prophesy that the end times before the Lord's coming will be as wicked as the "days of Noah" ( includes the widespread occultism imbedded in our music and responsible for the...