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How Can I Know The Truth?

On the great rocks and crags of the California coast near Monterey are Cedars of Lebanon, growing in the very midst of the rock. In some …

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Harsh and Unjust Criticism

Are you better at receiving harsh and unjust criticism or giving it? Would you rather be on the receiving end or the giving end of harsh and unjust criticism? If we admit it, …

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Lost Harvest

In the early 1800s a windmill salesman passed through a Midwest farming area. This was long before the days of electricity, and so windmills were …

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Secret Retaliation

“John” is in church leadership in a neighboring congregation. Some time ago the two of us were discussing how hurtful people in our flocks can …

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Mabel the Meddler

To meddle, says Webster, is to busy oneself in what is not one’s concern. Years ago in one of our local Churches of the Brethren, the …

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The Odor of Death

Lazarus was already dead four days by the time Jesus arrived at the tomb, and the odor of death was rife. “By this time there’s a …

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The Answer is in Your Hand

Life is replete with choices–choices about friends, about dating and marriage, about educational pursuits, about a vocation, about where to live, about when to begin …

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Anyone Saved Here Recently?

For a long time she had saved her money for a grand tour of Europe. Now that the trip had become reality, the matronly woman …

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The Power of a Silent Example

The poet Edgar A. Guest wrote: “I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day!” Shortly after the close of the Civil War, one Sunday morning a former …

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Laughter: One of God’s Good Gifts

The year was 1976. Since we had never heard Brother Merle Bievenour preach, Evy and I packed up the family and we went to a …

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