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Trusting God

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• Coal Basket Bible
  • Date Added: March 4, 2006
  • Excerpt: The story is told of an old man who lived on a farm in the mountains of eastern Kentucky with his young…
• Did God Create Evil?
  • Date Added: March 1, 2006
  • Excerpt: The university professor challenged his students with this question. "Did God create everything that…
• God's Cake
  • Date Added: March 2, 2006
  • Excerpt: Sometimes we wonder, "What did I do to deserve this?" or "Why did God have to do this to me?" Here is…
• He Gave His Son
  • Date Added: March 20, 2006
  • Excerpt: After a few of the usual Sunday evening hymns, the church's pastor slowly stood up, walked over to the…
• Jesus Loves Me
  • Date Added: January 10, 2007
  • Excerpt: One day a beautiful, but very troubled little girl came through the door of my day nursery. From the…
• Keeping up with the Joneses
  • Date Added: March 9, 2007
  • Excerpt: He who dies with the most toys is still dead.…
• My Problem
  • Date Added: March 9, 2007
  • Excerpt: Dear God, I have a problem. It's me.…
• On Happiness
  • Date Added: March 9, 2007
  • Excerpt: Do the math: count your blessings. Laugh every day, it's like inner jogging.…
• On Prayer
  • Date Added: March 9, 2007
  • Excerpt: If you worry, you didn't pray. If you pray, don't worry. As a child of God, prayer is kind of like calling…
• On Problems
  • Date Added: March 9, 2007
  • Excerpt: When we get tangled up in our problems, be still. God wants us to be still so He can untangle the knot.…
• People Are Like Bees, Bats and Buzzards
  • Date Added: August 12, 2006
  • Excerpt: The BuzzardIf you put a buzzard in a pen that is 6 feet by 8 feet and is entirely open at the top, the…
• Qualification
  • Date Added: March 7, 2006
  • Excerpt: God doesn't call the qualified; He qualifies the called.…
• The Angel's Lesson
  • Date Added: March 13, 2006
  • Excerpt: He placed one scoop of clay upon another until a form lay lifeless on the ground. All of the Garden's…
• The Blood of Jesus
  • Date Added: May 7, 2006
  • Excerpt: One night in a church service a young woman felt the tug of God at her heart. She responded to God's…
• The Duck and the Devil
  • Date Added: May 3, 2006
  • Excerpt: There was a little boy visiting his grandparents on their farm. He was given a slingshot to play with…
• The Magic of Three Days
  • Date Added: April 8, 2006
  • Excerpt: It was a beautiful spring day, and a sense of peace stayed with me as I left the cathedral on Easter…
• The Masters Vessel
  • Date Added: May 10, 2006
  • Excerpt: The Master was searching for a vessel to use. On the shelf there were many, which one would he choose…
• The Miracle Meal
  • Date Added: March 8, 2006
  • Excerpt: It was the last week of the month. As I was getting ready to prepare our Sabbath meal, I stood in front…
• The Sparrow at Starbucks
  • Date Added: August 12, 2006
  • Excerpt: It was chilly in Manhattan but warm inside the Starbucks shop on 51st Street and Broadway, just a skip…
• The Teacup
  • Date Added: April 5, 2006
  • Excerpt: There was a couple who used to go England to shop in a beautiful antique store. This trip was to celebrate…
• The Trip Was Worth It
  • Date Added: January 12, 2007
  • Excerpt: A boy, just about to enter his teens, sat contentedly in the coach of a train traveling through the dry…
• Trusting God
  • Date Added: April 17, 2007
  • Excerpt: It would be nice to know sometimes what’s going to happen next in our lives, but most of the time it…

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