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Tag Archives: peace
Just Mitch
My Real Memoir God believed in me. Even though, by my teens, I’d decided he didn’t exist and had come to consider believers rather simple-minded. Still, I could be tactfully dodgy. I told my pen pal Judy I believed in … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Memoir, Quips and Quotes
Tagged 1960s, funny, God, love, My Real Memoir, peace, The Diary of Anne Frank
38 Comments
Morning Has Broken
Whatever the weather cold and overcast or bursting with morning light the Son has risen in my heart and His light remains †
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged dawn, hope, Jesus, light, Luke 1:78-79, mercy, peace
12 Comments
Start Here
Image by cottonbro studios Thought for the Week I believe in the power of words to change people’s lives. Jesus’ words, more than anyone else’s, have changed the way I think, speak and live. For example, after referring to the … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged God, happiness, motivation, peace, thought for the week, truth, wisdom
31 Comments
75 Years Ago
Thought for the Week Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated seventy-five years ago. As is always the case when misguided, violent souls murder the innocent, the end they sought was not attained. The fledgling Indian government denounced and distanced itself from everything … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers
Tagged India, Jesus, love, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Matthew 5:9, peace, peacemakers, thought for the week
35 Comments
True Peace
“I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In this world you will have tribulation. But take courage, for I have overcome the world.” ~John 16:33
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged fear, hope, Jesus, John 14:27, John 16:33, love, peace
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What Winter Teaches Us
Thought for the Week The last leaves tremble on the ground as the snow arrives to cover them securing the peace that they have found whispering rest and think and start again ζ
Perfect Love
Thought for the Week The term “casts out” in the original Greek means to displace, the process by which one thing replaces another, just as air displaces water in a submarine, causing the submarine to rise to the surface–because the … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes
Tagged 1 John 4:18, 2023, Christmas, fear, love, New Year, peace, thought for the week
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55 Years Ago
It was the autumn of 1967, and we’d just come off the Summer of Love. My buddy Marc and I had searched for a rumored “Love-in” somewhere in L.A.’s Griffith Park, but never found it. I was enamored with the … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Memoir, Quips and Quotes
Tagged Bethlehem, hippies, Jesus, love, peace, protests, Summer of Love
20 Comments
My Spiritual Growth Plan
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged God, godliness, humility, Matthew 6:21, peace, spiritual growth, wealth
36 Comments
Change the Future
Thought for the Week “You’re an author, and the stories you write are penned across the hearts of your children. Therefore, be careful with the pen because you’re writing on some very precious paper.” ~Craig D. Lounsbrough “The way we … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Quips and Quotes
Tagged children, future, hope, kindness, patience, peace, teaching, thought for the week
37 Comments