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Message to America

Message to America

Here is my message -- or rather God’s and I hope it is taken to heart. “O, sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, offspring who do evil, children who do...
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More About Suffering

More About Suffering

  Have you ever heard it said that suffering is a “mystery”? Or supposed that it was a punishment? Or that “a just God would not allow people to suffer?”...
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Speaking Out

Speaking Out

I will speak openly because I have nothing to lose. I have two cancers, which are each considered terminal and I was just in the hospital with a near fatal...
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The Dark Night of the Soul

The Dark Night of the Soul

  I was tested severely I was in the hospital with septicemia and massive infection at my recent surgery. My oxygen dropped I had spasms that were ten out of...
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A Time of Testing and Blessing

A Time of Testing and Blessing

At the beginning of April, I chose to have elective surgery to correct a problem related to my cancer. And some of you know that I was ill and I...
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Testing

Testing

It's been a tough week for old Mr Joe. Two emergency room visits, bladder spasms, catheters. Blah. Worse, I was worrying about these silly pictures in my head of things...
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Tragedy

Tragedy

The life of the flesh is tragic by nature and by design. God allowed us intellect and free will but withheld the access to the tree of life, for having...
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Wide awake—Be Ready

Wide awake—Be Ready

Wide awake—be ready This morning I was reading Matthew 24. One of our number has been teaching about things like spiritual warfare and eschatology, subjects about which I have not...
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