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Avoid HALT
Be most careful then how you conduct yourselves: like sensible men, not like simpletons. Eph. 5:15, NEB. Through the writings of Paul we find woven the thread of self-control as a Christian virtue. He writes: “This is the will of God, that you should be holy: . . . each one of you must learn…
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The Environment and Health
The nations were angry; and your wrath has come. The time has come . . . for destroying those who destroy the earth. Rev. 11:18, NIV. Consider these facts: In 1960 the average U.S. citizen produced three pounds of trash per day; today five pounds per person per day go into the trash. Ten thousand…
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On Wings of Praise
For the Lord takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with salvation. Let the saints rejoice in this honor and sing for joy on their beds. Ps. 149:4, 5, NIV. I was just recovering from having partially ruptured a lower disk in my spine. I had spent three weeks in bed trying to…
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The Fountain of Youth
Who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. Ps. 103:5, NIV. For hundreds of years humanity has dreamed of finding a “fountain of youth” whose healing waters would make the old young, cure disease, and prolong life. I’d like to propose that we have found the elusive…
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Boundaries
There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdsmen of Lot’s cattle. . . . Then Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; . . . Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me.” Gen. 13:7-9,…
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"What Are You Doing Here?"
So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God. There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the Lord came to him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?” 1 Kings 19:8,…
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Arise and Eat
And as [Elijah] lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat. 1 Kings 19:5. It had been a long, trying, and tiring day. Elijah had had little or no time to eat, and certainly no time to rest. He had to keep a…
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Teach Them to Love My Sabbath
"I said, ‘You are my servant’; I have chosen you and have not rejected you. So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." Isa. 41:9, 10, NIV. Several years…
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The Double Healing Effect
But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn and took care of him. Luke 10:33,…
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Cleaning Up My Kitchen
There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. Prov. 14:12, NIV. It all started when I began skimping on my sleep, eating on the run, and pushing myself to renovate a halfway house for prisoners. Lack of funding forced me into full-time fund raising and…