What do we convey by what we say or don’t say or by our actions? What kind of witness are we? What is a witness anyway? According to Random House College Dictionary, witness is: 1) to see or know by personal presence and perception; 2) to be present at an occurrence as a formal witness, spectator, bystander; 3) to bear witness to, testify to, give or afford evidence of. The gospel writer John says of Jesus, “What Jesus has seen and heard, of that He bears witness, and no man receives His witness. He who has received His witness has Read More
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Joy Comes in the Morning
What goes through your mind when you are in a desperate situation or are in a season of suffering, and you cry out to God for help and deliverance, and He does not answer? Do you cry out louder? Do you feel abandoned? Do you despair? Do you think it’s not fair? Underserved? Do you become bitter or angry? Do you believe joy comes in the morning? All of us like comfy and cozy, right? No one likes to feel pain whether it’s emotional or physical. And yet, pain is something everyone of us experiences at some time or another Read More
Behind the Scene Story of Pain and Hope
This is the true story of pain and hope behind the Christmas carol, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.” It was March, 1863, in Cambridge, MA., when unbeknownst to his family, 18-year old Charles Appleton Longfellow, oldest of six children born to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Fannie Appleton, walked out of his house on Brattle Street to join President Lincoln’s Union Army to fight in the Civil War. Less than two years earlier, Charles’ mother died tragically when her dress caught fire. Her husband, Henry, tried desperately to extinguish the flames, but to no avail. She died the following Read More