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Imagine you were to build a house. Hopefully, you would first think it out. Then you would set a foundation and erect the building. When you were done you would have an empty building with rooms or chambers inside. Next, you would fill those rooms. “Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.” (Proverb 24:3-4) Our foundation as Christians is the Lord Jesus Christ. It is VERY

His name was not Dan, but for the sake of confidentiality it will be for this article. Dan was barely 55 years old and he had been sick for the previous 5 years. Just before I met him he had come to the realization that he would die soon, the consequence for living a hard drinking, heavy smoking, “everything to excess” life. Dan held the dubious distinction of having had the most drunken single vehicle car wrecks on a local stretch of highway…without dying. First responders w

I am helping to write an epistle. It’s called the Epistle of Mike. The word “epistle” means “a written message” and is often found in the form of a letter. Sometimes an epistle is identified in terms of the person who wrote it as in the epistles of James, John, Peter and Jude. Others are named in terms of the recipients of the letter as in Paul’s epistles to the Romans, Corinthians, Thessalonians or individuals like Timothy, Titus, and Philemon. There is a third sort of epist

Roll Up Your Mat “And Peter said to him, ‘Aeneas, Jesus the Christ heals you. Arise and make your bed.’ Then he arose immediately.” (Acts 9:34) Aeneas obeyed the Lord through Peter. Why did Jesus, through Peter, tell him to pick up his bed? The Lord didn’t want him to be lying back on it because he no longer needed it as his workplace. There is something for us here. A beggar’s mat is a symbol; it is his mark that identifies him as a paralytic. Truly, who else in the marketpl