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  • Praise Be To The Lord, The God Of Israel, ...

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jan 3, 2010
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    "Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come and has redeemed his people" (Luke 1:68 NIV). A little child plays innocently in a park. Suddenly a man grabs her from behind and drags her into a van. She’s gagged. A bag’s pulled over her head. Dust stings her eyes. The smell of sweat ...read more

  • The Rhino Calf Was Taking A Drinking At The ...

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jan 3, 2010
     | 1,389 views

    The rhino calf was taking a drink at the water hole. The tiger leaped at it. Soon the calf would have been ripped to shreds. But the mother rhinoceros charges out of the tall grass and drives the tiger away with her horn. "He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant ...read more

  • So Find Joy In Whatever Your Lord Gives You To ...

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jan 3, 2010
     | 1,515 views

    So find joy in whatever your Lord gives you to do in this year ahead. Serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all your days. Bring your service to him like a little child bringing her coloring page home from school. She gives it to Mom and Dad not because she thinks she’s ...read more

  • C. F. W. Walther In A Sermon On This Text Called ...

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jan 17, 2010
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    C. F. W. Walther in a sermon on this text called the marriage of a Christian a most splendid school of faith, love, humility, patience, gentleness and all Christian virtue. (/Amerikanisch-Lutherische ...read more

  • In The Mid 1700's A Little Bit Before The Time ...

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jan 25, 2010
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    In the mid 1700's a little bit before the time Kunta Kinte was said to have lived, a certain Englishman served under slavers and became a captain of a slave ship. One night in 1748 in a storm as the ship took on water, he felt the weight of his guilt chained to him. Faced with death, he came to ...read more

  • Kunta Kinte

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jan 25, 2010
     | 2,112 views

    Kunta Kinte Our greatest sin is trying to deal with our sin-guilt by some form of denial. These various forms of denial think that we can escape and run away from our guilt. We imagine that freedom is within our power. Kunta Kinte tried to escape. He tried to mentally escape by refusing to ...read more

  • Of All The Rights Of Women, The Greatest Is To ...

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on May 10, 2010
     | 2,019 views

    "Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother" Lin Yutang, a 20th ...read more

  • He Claimed To

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jun 6, 2010
     | 2,135 views

    He claimed to "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee." Sports Illustrated crowned him the "Sportsman of the Century." His nickname was "The Greatest." He was the three-time World Heavyweight Champion, Muhammad Ali. But where is that left hook followed by the hard right to the face that ...read more

  • In The 1940's There Was Race, A Race To Get The ...

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jun 6, 2010
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    In the 1940’s there was race, a race to get the mightiest weapon this world had yet seen. The United States had the Manhattan Project. Hitler had his heavy water experiments. After the war it was learned that Hitler was much farther away from developing the atomic bomb than some had feared. But ...read more

  • Let's Begin Understanding This Name, /Adonai/ ...

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jun 15, 2010
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    Let’s begin understanding this name, /Adonai/ (אֲדֹנָי), meaning /Lord/, by going back to the Middle Ages. Picture a medieval manor. Peasants worked the surrounding fields. Craftsmen lived in the village. The manor house, maybe with a moat and watchtower, ...read more

  • Picture Again The Medieval Manor We Talked About ...

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jun 15, 2010
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    Picture again the medieval manor we talked about earlier. No doubt many lords of the manor were more concerned about their own comfort and safety rather than about their people. But a good lord would defend his people. He would fight for them against marauders, raiders, bandits. He might even bleed ...read more

  • Difficulty Praying

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Aug 10, 2010
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    And I don't think that I'm alone in this struggle to pray. Even a great church leader like Martin Luther has said this about prayer, "At times I, who teach this and prescribe it to others, have learned from my own example that praying comes close to being the most difficult of all works" ...read more

  • Faith And Promise

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Aug 17, 2010
     | 6,043 views

    FAITH AND PROMISE When something is promised, you have not seen it happen yet, have you? If I promise my wife that I'm going to clean out the basement, there's no proof that you can see. There's only my word. That promise is the only evidence it will happen. And I may prove unreliable for one ...read more

  • 70 Funerals In One Day

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Nov 24, 2010
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     | 5,658 views

    70 FUNERALS IN ONE DAY During a forty-year ministry, I would guess that many pastors do seventy or more burials. But this wasn't over the full span of his ministry. In fact, it wasn't even a full year. In one day, Pastor Rinkart did burial rites for up to seventy people and did the same the next ...read more

  • Stay Focused

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Nov 29, 2010
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    STAY FOCUSED God's Word. That's what focuses our hearts so that we watch continuously, ready for Jesus. In a way, you might say, God's Word is like my glasses. Without my glasses, I couldn't even begin to catch a football. I wouldn't see it coming. But even with my glasses on, I still need to ...read more

  • An Afflicted Life Can Save

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jul 22, 2009
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    AN AFFLICTED LIFE CAN SAVE Or consider the young lady suffering with terminal cancer. It’s a painful and hopeless disease. But instead of complaints and self-pity, she openly talked about her hope of eternal life in Jesus, about the inheritance in heaven Jesus won for her by dying on the cross, ...read more

  • Or Consider The Story Of The Boy Catching Fish ...

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jul 22, 2009
     | 2,685 views

    Or consider the story of the boy catching fish for supper. He wanted to give some to the Lord. So he brought a fish to the pastor. The pastor asked, "Where are the other fish for you to eat?" The boy answered, ...read more

  • Consider A New Mother Home Alone With Her Baby. ...

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Aug 2, 2009
     | 1,816 views

    Consider a new mother home alone with her baby. Suddenly she’s awakened by the smell of smoke. The house is on fire. Her only thought is for her baby. She races down the smoke-filled hall without a thought for her own safety. She grabs him in her arms, shields his face from the flames with her ...read more

  • Shepherdless Sheep

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Aug 2, 2009
     | 3,644 views

    SHEPHERDLESS SHEEP How pitiful shepherdless sheep are! Shepherdless sheep become easy prey for wolves, coyotes, and other predators. They can’t outrun them. They can’t outfight them. And what wolf would be scared off by a bleating: baaa? Sheep are left torn and bloodied and dead without a ...read more

  • There Could Have Been Peace Instead Of War In ...

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Aug 16, 2009
     | 1,217 views

    There could have been peace instead of war in 1939. Great Britain and France could have just let Hitler have Poland. That had worked the year before when they let Hitler have part of Czechoslovakia, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich declaring "peace for our ...read more

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