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Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here  Honey in the Lion   Samson's Riddle: "“Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the strong, something sweet.” (Judges 14:14) Samson was from a Jewish family chosen by God, to lead Israel to fight against the Philistines. An angel of God visited his parents who did not have a child for a long time and promised that they would have a son and he would become a very strong man. He should not cut his hair forever because his hair will be the source of his strength. Samson grew up to be a man of super-human strength (Judges 13, 14). He killed a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of a donkey. At times, he was a mad man. He tied up three hundred foxes tail to tail and set them with fire torches and burned up ...

Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here  The Labyrinths of Life   "The Lore is your keeper; The Lord is your shade at your right hand." (Psalm 121:5 NKJV) "The Lord kept me through" (Genesis 48:15) One common reference in the Psalms is the way they address God as the "God of Jacob". (44:4, 46:7, 47:4, 84:7, 85:1, 87:2). Jacob’s life relates to us humans more than Moses' or David or Abraham's. Jacob does not stand out before us as a man of love, compassion, a faithful friend, or even a noble enemy. A vein of trickery and treachery runs through his nature.  God chose Jacob, and chooses to be called the 'God of Jacob', just because he was a man so full of human infirmity and littleness, mingled with those higher and nobler qualities without wh...

Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here A Radically Hospitable Mother   Anna Jarvis, the woman who is credited with founding Mother's Day, was an active member of the Methodist Church in Grafton, WV, which became known as "the Mother's Day Church." Inspired by her own mother, Anna Jarvis organized "Mothers' Work Day Clubs" in the 1850s, providing support and services to the underprivileged in the area, such as medical assistance, milk inspections for children, nursing care for the sick, and shelters for children with tuberculosis. During the Civil War, she brought together these clubs to pledge friendship and goodwill, and the women courageously nursed soldiers from both sides, saving many lives. After the war, Anna Reeves Jarvis became a peacemaker and ...

Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here Mind Your Mission   "When Peter saw him, he asked, “Lord, what about him?” Jesus answered, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.” (John 21:21-22) John is the only gospel writer that writes about the restoration of Peter and Peter's call, along with the details of how Jesus confirmed the mission of John and Peter. John probably wanted to set the record straight that the call to Peter was established as the rock on which the church would be built. Our Identities The disciple whom Jesus loved is the author of the Gospel. John refers to himself as the 'disciple whom Jesus loved' to represent what is true of all disciples. We are all to find our identity first and forem...

Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here  From Failure to Faith   John 21:1-6 Afterward Jesus appeared again to his disciples, by the Sea of Galilee. It happened this way: 2 Simon Peter, Thomas (also known as Didymus), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples were together. 3 “I’m going out to fish,” Simon Peter told them, and they said, “We’ll go with you.” So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. 4 Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus. 5 He called out to them, “Friends, haven’t you any fish?”“No,” they answered. 6 He said, “Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.” When they did, they w...