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Focus on your source of strength by PASTOR LARRY D. ROWLAND Rockford Baptist Church Sports have become more daring and dangerous during this past generation. Not content with just the more traditional sporting events like soccer, baseball, football, basketball and hockey, many young people today have become enamored with “extreme sports.” Doing skateboard tricks down [...]
Up with love, down with fear by PASTOR JON HUIZENGA River Rock Church “Up with love, down with fear” sounds like something my brother might have chanted in bellbottoms and sandals. I myself am not quite old enough to be a ’60s flower child. However, I’m still groovy with that phrase. In fact, I dig [...]
Spring brings new beginnings, new life by DR. MICHAEL CONKLIN Courtland-Oakfield United Methodist Church Spring is a time of wonder for me, and every year I anticipate its coming with a real sense of the coming joy. It isn’t that everything begins to turn both green and the rich colors of spring flowers, though that [...]
Carry out God’s call in your life by REV. SUSAN YORK Church of the Holy Spirit, Belmont As we are in the very midst of Holy Week observance, and following Jesus on his last journey here on Earth, we remember his suffering and his death, even as we anticipate the joy of Easter in his [...]
by PASTOR MICHAEL CISLER North Kent Bible Church There is a song made popular in the late 1950s entitled “What a Difference a Day Makes.” I have heard this song used in movies and commercials to support the point of how quickly life can change. Certainly we have experienced this truth in our own lives [...]
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