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Continuing with my Oswald Chambers devotions, I ran across this quote on the devotions for September 30.  “You cannot drink grapes.  Grapes become wine only when they are crushed.”  The devotion went on to say that when we suffer a defeat in our Christian life, we cannot stay defeated.  We use that defeat to be …

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Tom and I moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania for a few weeks.  We have some stuff to see in eastern PA and Harrisburg is close to all the stuff we wanted to see.  Consequently, we attended a new church last Sunday, the Crosspoint United Methodist Church, Colonial Park. The Colonial Park part is important because Crosspoint …

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This last Sunday was our final Sunday worshiping with the Asbury United Methodist Church in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.  We enjoyed the church and the service very much.  Music director Bert Sesler led most of the services and we will always remember his distinctive organ playing.  Even though the congregation was small, it was faithful.  Today I …

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During the summer, Tom and I visited Fort Ligonier twice.  Both times we went, I spent some time with one particular exhibit in the museum.  It is the coat and vest of a British ship captain who was shot in a battle.  The bullet passed through his vest, through the back of the jacket, and …

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When you were a kid did you say the Pledge of Allegiance every day at the beginning of school?  I don’t say it much any more, and I recently read it and thought about the words.  “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it …

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I recently read a Christian author’s thoughts on how God is disillusioned with us.  This was a startling opinion because the definition of disillusioned is “disappointed in someone or something that one discovers to be less good than one had believed.”  But this author went on to say that God doesn’t have any illusions about …

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What are you afraid of?  Tom and I were reading the traditional list of things people are afraid of.  The number one fear:  public speaking.  Neither one of us has this fear, but I have plenty of others.  I am afraid of heights.  I didn’t used to be, but now I get these urges to …

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As I was reading my devotions this morning, I thought about the ways we have to work our spiritual muscles.  If we want to be strong in Christ, we have to practice our spiritual workout.  So, if we are growing in Christ, we are building our spiritual muscles.  Maybe we even look like a really …

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