Category: Devotional
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When the Orchestra Went Silent
Nothing compares to the ability of an orchestra to display the majesty and the power of God; for, the collection of the sounds of the orchestra is a complete palette of all of the sounds that God created and placed into our diverse world. We have stringed instruments, instruments made with pipes, instruments made with…
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Faith – the Beauty in History
The book of Lamentations starts with these words…“How lonely sits the city that was full of people…” There is something deeply affecting about walking the empty streets of an abandoned town that was once full of children laughing, lovers wooing, and friendships sharing. It is as if I can almost hear the faint echoes of what…
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Peter, Me, Eleanor, a Cuban Pastor, a Seminary Professor, and the Amazing Grace of God
I think about Peter, a loud and probably burly fisherman on the Sea of Galilee who had his fishing boat boarded by Jesus of Nazareth. Peter hadn’t caught a fish all night – and this was his livelihood. Jesus told Peter to cast his nets on the other side of the boat – Peter did,…
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The Work that God has Done
“When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the task which has been done on the earth (even though one should never sleep day or night), and I saw every work of God, I concluded that man cannot discover the work which has been done under the sun. Even though man should…