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Greetings from Beverly Hills, FL
This week has seen a spike in our number of views and readers. In part this is due to our Tuesday post, A Tribute to Paul Earnhart, a gospel preacher who recently passed away. If you missed this post, you will profit from reading it and the tributes paid to Paul by various friends and colleagues.
We welcome new readers. We hope you continue reading and following our daily blog. Continue reading
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Not everything on social media is bad. On Friday’s we publish something we’ve found good, informative, thought provoking or challenging on facebook.
Today’s Facebook Friday is a post I found on Daily Bible Notes by Andy Sochor from Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Andy’s article on the topic of conscience spurred a few thoughts of our own. Continue reading
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The other day at the YMCA where we work out, they were passing out cards challenging us to participate in the 12 days of happiness.
With holiday busyness and the stress that often accompanies it, this is the Y’s way to encourage fitness of body, soul and mind. On the back of the card were “12 Suggested Self Care Activities.” Continue reading
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After preaching the first lesson introducing his sermon series on “The Sins of the Saints,” a sister chastised the preacher as she left the building.
When he asked her why she was upset about the sermon, she replied, “The sins of Christians are different from other people.” Continue reading
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There is a stanza in The Psalm of Life by the 19th century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that comes to mind as I think of the life of Paul Earnhart.
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time ; Continue reading
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“You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely,” once quipped the humorist and American poet Ogden Nash.
I suppose there’s something attractive about the Peter Pan mentality of enjoying the carefree life of childhood, never growing up, and avoiding adulting. Continue reading
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Greetings from Beverly Hills, Florida
Just so our friends up North know, not everything is sunshine and lollipops here in Florida.
Our templatizes dipped into the upper 30’s this week. And the highs never got out of the 60’s for several days. Wednesday night I had to wear a sweater to Church. Yep. We have cold weather too. But today is predicting a high of 81. Happy days are here again.
Well, enough “complaining.” We’re richly blessed in so many ways. And thankful for the opportunities to minister in the Word–regardless of the weather.
This week, as noted in our Wednesday post, marked blog post #3500. If you’re new to ThePreachersWord, you can easily access any of the 3500 posts based on the categories listed, or use the WordPress search engine using a key word or Bible verse. Continue reading
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The WFLA facebook page promotes today as their 15th annual Kindness Day as supported by channel 8 in the Tampa Bay area.
They encourage donating the following for these 5 charities during the holiday season. Continue reading
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Isaac Watts was an 18th century English minister and hymn writer, who had become dissatisfied with the songs and quality of singing in British churches.
In his book, Then Sings My Soul, Robert J. Morgan credited Watts with ‘inventing” what he called “the English hymn.” Watts, however, had his critics, including minister Thomas Bradbury who called his songs “whims instead of hymns.” Continue reading
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