Entries by WAJ

When You Are Powerless, Jesus Is Not

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I just took all my financial information to my accountant who does my taxes. A few weeks ago I took my car to my mechanic to get it fixed. A couple of months ago, when my furnace went out, I called a heating and cooling company that sent out a tech to get it working […]

What Do We Pray In Times Like This?

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So, what are you praying for these days? For God to keep you and your loved ones from getting the coronavirus? For God to end the threat of this virus, so people don’t get sick or die from it anymore, and so you can stop losing income and pay your bills? Those prayers are appropriate […]

Life Never Seems To Be What We Want It To Be

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Do you remember the name of Michael Jackson’s estate? He called it, “Neverland,” after the fictional island in “Peter Pan.” It included a lavish home with a huge theater, gardens, fountains, a four-acre pool, and a private amusement park and zoo. But did it make him happy? A lot of people who knew him described […]

Jesus Is Your Certainty In Uncertain Times

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I recently checked out some survey data for a community here in my hometown. At number five on the list of life concerns were “Fear of the future and fear of the unknown.” If you were to survey that same community today I am sure that “fear of the future and fear of the unknown” […]

Harmony Accomplished By Humility

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What does it look like when two people live in harmony? They might smile at each other. They might laugh a lot. If two people are in harmony with one another, you would never see them fighting. They would never avoid eye contact with one another. They would never use cutting sarcasm with, or say […]

Why Am I Suffering?

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I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.—Romans 8:18 This article is meant for those who know what it is like to suffer because you are going through it right now. Some of you have joints that are screaming from rheumatoid arthritis. Some of […]

How Can I Live in the Presence of God?

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Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes. (Romans 10:4) If you want to live in the presence of a holy, perfect, and righteous God, then you need to be holy, perfect, and righteous yourself. If you are holy, perfect, and righteous, then you can live […]

Overcome Evil with Good

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A Christian friend shared this story from his life. He was driving across town and irritated another driver on the roadway. That driver accelerated past him, yelled some choice words, made an obscene gesture, and sped on by. Not long after, the Christian man saw that same car stopped on the shoulder with car trouble. […]

Money Trap

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Godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge […]

Protected Information

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Mark 13:32-33: Jesus says “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be on your guard! Be alert! You do not know when that time will come.” Why doesn’t God tell us everything. Wouldn’t it be helpful for us? Wouldn’t it make […]