Tag: grief
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Getting Out Of Bed In The Morning – Alice J. Wisler
Christian Non-Fiction Review An Introduction by Roger Harned As I write this on September 21, 2013, my daughter is celebrating her 21st birthday with friends. If you do the math from the cover photo you will see that Daniel Paul Wisler was born just 28 days before my daughter Rachel, who will be hosting our…
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A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 14
As I walked through the brilliance of a field now bathed in light, through gentle caressing breezes which flowed over lily and daisy, I basked in the warmth of something I had never known: a love of God. I now embraced a love and tenderness toward Jesus I had never sought, but now had found.…
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A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 12
A moment of silence… We were asked to stand as the music began once more in our surroundings of the darkened church. It seemed sadder than before. I looked toward a glimmer of sun breaking through a window and reflecting off the brass cross on the altar. I looked down at a hymnal … to…
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A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 11
(For those of you who missed our last episode, these are the roaming thoughts of a man at a funeral.) QUOTES from: “Ten Shekels and a Shirt,” Paris Reidhead, (1919-1992) Sermon on Judges 17, c.1945-47 For a long time, I had thought about the missionary’s words, yet hadn’t thought of it again until now. I…
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A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 9
The born again crowds all seem to have a plan for our salvation and confident assurance of a place in Heaven… I just don’t see it in most of their lives. I see people who talk about Jesus and Heaven differently in different places. I don’t even think that they understand the salvation they preach.…
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A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 8
My eyes drew back from their distant stare to gaze away from the picture. I gazed back from yesterday and looked intently toward the cross at the front of the church. I wondered: How does Jesus fit into all of this? I had never quite seen the connection between Jesus and all of the pictures…
