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25 May Tue, 2010 Becoming Whole [ John 5:1 - 5:9 ] - hymn528 Do you want to be made well? — John 5:6 John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer prizewinning novel The Grapes of Wrath begins with a scene in drought-ravaged Oklahoma during the Great Depression. With the crops dying and the land choked by dust, the women watched the men to see if they would break under the strain. When they saw the men’s wil..

24 May Mon, 2010 Bring Them To Jesus [ Luke 18:15 - 18:17 ] - hymn300 Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God. — Mark 10:14 The Scripture reading from Luke 18 about children seemed unusual at the memorial service for David Holquist. After all, he was 77 when he died. Yet the pastor said the verses fit David, a long-time college professor, ..

23 May Sun, 2010 High-Tech Communication [ 1 Corinthians 2:6 - 2:16 ] - hymn235 Now we have received ... the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. — 1 Corinthians 2:12 When it comes to communication, our world is becoming increasingly high-tech. The popularity of things like Twitter and Facebook might cause some to think the Bible is t..

22 May Sat, 2010 I Shall Not Want [ James 4:1 - 4:10 ] - hymn489 The world is Mine, and all its fullness. — Psalm 50:12 Before they were a week old, the eaglets were fighting over food. Neither was strong enough to hold up his head for more than a few seconds, so the pair looked like fuzzballs with bobble-heads attached. But whenever the parents brought food to the nest, the bigger eaglet was..

21 May Fri, 2010 I, Me, Mine [ Philippians 2:1 - 2:11 ] - hymn347 Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit. — Philippians 2:3 In 1970, the Beatles began work on a documentary intended to show how their music was made. But instead of revealing the process of musical creativity, the film pulled the curtain back on a display of self-interest and bickering. The band members were mo..

20 May Thu, 2010 A Worthy Offering [ Genesis 4:1 - 4:7 ] - hymn346 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. - Genesis 4:7 I was delighted when a mutual friend gave my neighbor a Bible. But my neighbor told me she stopped reading it because she couldn’t understand why God would be so unfair as to reject Cain’s offering. “After all,” she s..

19 May Wed, 2010 Secondhand Faith [ Judges 2:6 - 2:12 ] - hymn344 Another generation arose after them who did not know the Lord nor the work which He had done for Israel. - Judges 2:10 When I was growing up in Singapore, I remember that some of my school friends were kicked out of their homes by their non-Christian parents for daring to believe in Jesus Christ. They suffered for their beliefs a..

18 May Tue, 2010 Triumphing Over Giants [ Samuel 17:33 - 17:50 ] - hymn384 The Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine. - 1 Samuel 17:37 In 1935, the debate team of Wiley College, a small and unranked black school in Texas, unexpectedly defeated the all-white championship team from the University of Southe..

17 May Mon, 2010 God’s Origami [ Romans 8:22 - 8:30 ] - hymn217 We are [God’s] workmanship, created in Christ Jesus. - Ephesians 2:10 Not long ago, I attended a class in origami, where I learned that the term comes from two Japanese words that mean “folding paper.” In this process, a piece of paper is transformed into a bird or other unique shape by a series of geometric folds and creas..

16 May Sun, 2010 The Ascension [ Acts 1:1 - 1:11 ] - hymn249 While they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. - Acts 1:9 When the husband of my longtime friend and publishing colleague collapsed and later died, there was no doubt that life had slipped away from him. There were witnesses. The same was true when Jesus died. But three days later, Jesus was raised f..