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    From Why To What

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Feb 21, 2024
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    The normal human response, “Why did this happen?” calls God to account. On the other hand, “What do you want me to do?” is an invitation for God to call us to account.

    Sixty years ago President John Fitzgerald Kennedy sent a group of military advisors to a little country in the Far East that most Americans had never heard of. Their government was having some trouble with rebels and turned to the U.S. for help. Who else should they turn to? The United States was ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    After The Tears

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Feb 1, 2024
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    We all make mistakes, some bigger than others. But God has shown us what to do with them:

    I don’t know anyone anywhere who hasn’t done something they were sorry for afterwards. What’s the most recent one for you? Maybe it’s something you said - thoughtless or angry words. Maybe it’s something you did - or something you didn’t do. Perhaps it was something that you fight against and keep ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    The Means Of Grace

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Dec 23, 2023
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    God’s power does not depend on tangible things or reside in visible things. It is God in Christ who calls, and when we come to him, it is God in Christ who heals.

    Can you imagine how desperate General Naaman must have been? Aram and Israel were enemies, for goodness’ sake. They were raiding across each other's borders, looting and taking slaves and generally making nuisances of themselves, keeping in practice for the next full-scale hostilities to break ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Margin Of Grace

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Dec 23, 2023
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    The reason God has given us a margin of grace is so that we might reconsider and draw near to him, not to remove the consequences of staying at arms length.

    Nearly a quarter-century after most of the world signed a convention outlawing the use of antipersonnel landmines, the number of people being killed or maimed by these insidious and lethal weapons remains high—and rising. The Landmine Monitor for 2021, released on November 10, reported 7,073 ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Choosing Sides

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Dec 4, 2023
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    No matter who or what you are committed to, if Christ is not put first, all the other allegiances suffer as well.

    A few years ago, my sister played the female lead in a community theater production of a play called “Pack of Lies.” It was about a couple whose neighbors across the street were suspected of espionage; the British Secret Service asked their permission to establish a surveillance on them from the ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    False Security

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Dec 4, 2023
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    No form of government can make up for the peoples’ failure to obey and honor God.

    It’s amazing which lessons we learn from our parents and which ones we don’t, isn’t it? Considering that I quit making my bed every day the minute I moved out, my mother would be amazed to realize how many lessons I do remember. One of my favorites is from a time when I think I was about 7 years ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Ill-Gotten Gains

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Oct 29, 2023
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    Jezebel took shortcuts to gain power and wealth and wound up being famous, but not in the way she wanted.

    How many women in this congregation are wearing makeup? How many of you actually feel rather undressed if you go out without your lipstick? My mother, who turned 104 in September, used to be so dependent on makeup she even wore lipstick and eye liner on hiking trips. I don’t often wear makeup ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Runaway Prophet

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Oct 29, 2023
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    Reporters chase Elijah down to Judah to get his side of the story and find out what comes next.

    Good morning. This is The News Hour with Azariah bar Jesse, bringing you a special report from Samaria in the kingdom of Israel on Thursday, September 23rd, in the 8th year of the reign of King Ahab Ben Omri. Today we have a newsmaker interview from Beersheba in Judah, where our special ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    House Beautiful

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Oct 29, 2023
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    Why should we adorn the house of God? How should we? Should we?

    We’ve come a long way, haven’t we, since the Puritans trashed the glorious medieval churches of England and Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Henry VIII ordered the dissolution of the monasteries, melting down altarware and images, largely to enrich the civil treasury. Under Oliver Cromwell, though, ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Peace Warriors

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Oct 14, 2023
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    We don’t HAVE bows and arrows; we ARE bows and arrows in the hand of God.

    Probably the only part of the book of Zechariah that the average Christian would recognize is the beginning of the passage that is almost always read today, in the context of Palm Sunday, when Jesus enters Jerusalem for the last time, sending his disciples into Jerusalem to pick up a donkey in ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Called To Order, Called To Joy

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Oct 13, 2023
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    The most important way that joy becomes strength is by knowing who we are, and whose we are, and why we are.

    Why did they weep? Why did the people of Jerusalem grieve when Ezra read the word of God to them? The people of Jerusalem had just achieved a major victory: rebuilding the wall around the city which had been destroyed during their seventy years of captivity in Babylon. They had foiled their ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Promising Signs

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Oct 13, 2023
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    Each time Jesus is born again in any person it is a sign of the present reality of the kingdom of God.

    I was talking to a man last week about our birthday party for Jesus, which is the informal family worship time we have here on Christmas morning. It’s capped by having the children blow out the candle on Jesus’ birthday cake. And he asked, “How can you fit 2003 candles on one birthday cake?” ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    The Final Accounting

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Oct 11, 2023
     | 770 views

    The minute you loosen your death grip on your wallet, you shift your spiritual center of gravity from yourself onto God

    I just got back from the most marvelous conference. I almost didn’t go... I’d spent all my Continuing Ed allowance already, and the hotels in Baltimore are EXPENSIVE. But the organizer of the conference arranged for me to share a hotel room with one of the speakers, whose room was already being ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Mad At God

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Oct 11, 2023
     | 1,028 views

    Look how patient God is with Jonah's sulking. He's that patient with you, too.

    Have you ever been mad at God? I have. I became a Christian in my 30’s, which is a little unusual. Quite a number of people recommit in their middle years, as they start looking around and wondering what it’s all about, but they were usually raised at least nominally Christian, while I was ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Downside Up

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Sep 28, 2023
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    Repentance, restoration, and revelation are the prerequisites for revival. They ready us for the new things God is doing in the world.

    As most of you know, I’m a news junkie. Especially national and international news. Right now the 2024 presidential election is front and center on all the news feeds. The border crisis vies with the Ukrainian War for second place, while hovering ominously in the background is the growing threat ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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