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How can there be a multi-car "pile up" accident at a light, at an intersection where the top speed is 35 miles per hour? I don't know how the accident happened but it did.   Yesterday, I was shopping for a birthday present. I came out of the store to see flashing blue lights across the parking lot. A gentleman coming toward me warned that there had been a bad accident. He advised to not go out the closest exit that led to the intersection, as there were several cars involved. As we were talking, other emergency vehicles arrived. I thanked the gentleman for alerting me and continued toward my car. In a few moments I could clearly see the accident was indeed bad.  I had used that same intersection to get to the store and it would have been the one I would have chosen to exit the shopping complex. If I had left the store a few minutes earlier, I might have been in the accident.   I prayed for the people involved. My hope is that no one was seriously hurt. And I tha...

As a Believer, I am committed to paying the debts I have and to minimizing the addition of debt as much as possible. At one point in my life, medical bills from my seriously ill spouse (who ultimately passed away) were crushing and depleted every resource we had built. After the death of my spouse, it took seven years of hard work and frugal living to pay off  what remained. It was such a relief to receive the final notice from the last creditor that the debt was completely paid.  But there is a debt that is greater than any financial debt. It is the price that sin exacts on the human condition; and the resultant misery has catastrophic consequences. Today is the day that many Believers celebrate the debt that was fully paid by Jesus on the cross. The Bible says it better than I ever could. "Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our i...

 Peter was in prison, guarded by 16 soldiers. The only "crime" he had committed was preaching Jesus' life, death, resurrection and redeeming love. King Herod had sought him out to add him to the martyrs (those who had died for believing in and preaching about Jesus). Peter was considered a formidable influencer of the people and the soldiers guarding Peter knew their lives would be required if Peter escaped. Herod had chosen a particular day to bring Peter before the people with the ultimate goal of setting the day and time for Peter's execution.  The news of Peter's imprisonment reached the church and the believers gathered to pray. The Bible lets us know prayers were going up to God around the clock ; not a moment went by without someone praying for Peter.   The night before Herod's appointed day an angel of God appeared in the prison, woke Peter up and helped him up. As the angel lifted him, the chains with which Peter was bound fell off. The angel told hi...

Each time I go to the grocery store I am stunned. It costs more and more to get less and less. There are only two of us in our household, we both have jobs, and it takes great skill to not "break the bank" doing the necessary shopping. I wonder about the ability of families to manage as costs soar while incomes often don't. The Bible speaks of a time that is coming when a day's wages will only buy enough food for one man for one day (Revelation 6: 5 & 6). That is a sobering thought. How does one "prepare" for those kinds of shortages? One answer is this: stay close to God . There are many examples in the Bible of God's Provision for His People. Elijah is one such example. A true prophet of God, when Elijah spoke, what he spoke came to pass. He predicted a famine in the land and the famine came. No rains fell and no crops grew. God commanded Elijah to hide from Ahab (the king who was blaming Elijah for the famine), so the prophet did as God told him t...