1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (198+ words) " "Above painting:" The Crucifixion, Paolo Veronese, 1580 Luke 23:33 " "When they came to the place called the Skull, there they crucified him, along with the criminals" one on his right, the other on his left. Luke 23:44-46 " "It was now about the sixth…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1316+ words) " " "(continued) "When you want to get someone to do what you want them to do, you can try and find ways to get power over them. "But that is not the only way. "You can also use "authority." "There is…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (620+ words) " " "Todd and Maggie had a big fight and broke up. "Todd, as always, had not been treating her very well, and Maggie told him she wanted to call it quits. "Todd wanted to get back together, but he wasn't about…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (216+ words) Painting above:" The Message of Pilate's Wife by "James Jacques Tissot "(1836-1902) While Pilate was sitting on the judge's seat, his wife sent him this message: "Do not have anything to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered a…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (902+ words) " A while back I came across a nice little illustration of the grace of God. The writer referred to it as an old familiar illustration, but I had never heard it before, and maybe you haven't either. (This is an…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (516+ words) Funeral for Ora Casdorph, March 31, 1997, Stover, Missouri: " " "This is a difficult sermon for me to preach, difficult because I did not know Mr. Casdorph well at all." I visited him a few times at the request of his sister, my…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (644+ words) " Speaking of the Dead is a book of funeral sermons by Lutheran pastor Russell Saltzman. In the following two sermons from that book, he describes the importance of those two old friends to two men he visited. (American Lutheran Publicity…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (324+ words) When he was sober, Brennan Manning could write really good books." He wrote several, including The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out (1990, 2000)." His "on again/off again/on again" ministry was to those who were…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (166+ words) Pictured above:" Abraham Lincoln's Triumphant Visit to Richmond " " "On April 9, 1865 Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union forces General Ulysses S. Grant, thus ending the Civil War and the most terrible four years of American history. "It was Palm Sunday....

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (248+ words) Above:" Mohandis Gandhi (1869-1948) as a young lawyer in South Africa " " "But this does not happen when the actions of believers dishonor God's name by their lives and actions." " " "We bring honor or dishonor to God's name by how we live....