Tag: peace
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Ghosts of Christmas’ Past
We are of course familiar with the image of ghosts of Christmas’ past thanks to Charles Dickens, ‘A Christmas Carol,’ penned in A.D. 1843. Dickens points toward a morality of generosity during a great 19th century division between a well-off gentry class and the working poor. Even today his theme of the repentance of Scrooge…
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He Leadeth me beside still waters – Psalm 23
He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: Psalm 23 – a song of calm confidence Many of us know it well. Perhaps we even recite the six verses of Psalm 23 even as I learned in the melodic flow of the King James Version of the Bible. The LORD is my…
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Be Still…
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” Psalm 37:7 What were the instructions of the risen Christ Jesus to the Apostles for the time after He ascended once more into Heaven? WAIT. Luke 24:48 You are witnesses of these things.…
