Shadrach

Psalm 116:15, “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints”
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Do you like continued stories? Let’s say you’re reading a magazine article or even watching a television program for half an hour, and you come to the place where the hero plunges into the water to rescue his drowning sweetheart. Then you’re left hanging in the air with the words, “To be continued.” Oh, how disappointing! There would be a different response to the inscription on the ...

Psalm 46:1-3, “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change, and though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea; though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains quake at its swelling pride.”

Habakkuk 3:18, “Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation”
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Let’s see. What is the crisis of the day? It could be terrorism and its random ...

2 Corinthians 5:7, “We walk by faith, not by sight”
John 4:50, “Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live. The man took Jesus at his word and departed”
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We perceive our world through sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch and we respond according to the information gained by these five senses. Our Father in Heaven commands us to walk by faith, not according to what we see. Hebrews 11:1 tells us, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence ...

Isaiah 40:8, “The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand forever”
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I wanted to share with you another great hymn written by George H. Carr. I’m sad to say that I couldn’t find any information regarding the writer of this precious hymn. However, I would like to mention a few things concerning the “Old Book” and the “Old Faith”, which this hymn writer speaks about. I truly believe that the greatest cause for our neglect of the ...

Deuteronomy 31:8, “The LORD, He is the One who goes before you. He will be with you; He will not leave you nor forsake you”

Romans 4:20, “[Abraham] did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief”

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Some years ago I read a story that went something like this. A group of scientists and botanists were exploring remote regions of the Alps in search of new species of flowers. One day they noticed through binoculars a flower of such rarity ...