It’s Dark Out!

A street light is lit up in the snow.

MegRichardsPhotography.com My dad and I went on a tour into a deep cave. At the deepest point, the guide had all the lights extinguished. And it was DARK! The dark pressed in and felt like a presence I could touch. The dark even extinguished noise. People whispered, and then fell silent. It was harder to…

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The Unexpected

Two orange flowers on a bush next to a brick wall.

First Blooms on Wednesday/Snow cold on Friday! Iwoke up feeling ill this morning. This was unexpected, especially since I felt so well yesterday. (I’m fine now.) I had been praying about what to post this week, so my unexpected, short-term ailment, was, I believe, an answer to prayer! But life is like that: we may…

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Begin

The sun shines through purple blossoms on a tree.

MegRichardsPhotography.com When is the new year for you? The many, many years I was a student, autumn was the start of a new school year, and the mental start of beginning anew. Autumn was the start of my new year. More recently, January 1 has been the symbolic date, and I usually think about goals…

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To The End

A bee is flying over a purple flower.

MegRichardsPhotography.com If you believe in Jesus Christ, having received Him as Lord and Savior, He will love you to the end. Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world,…

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Death is Final

The milky in the night sky above a mountain.

Harry Durgin Facebook Three funerals in the past few days. I’m sad. Death is separation from us who are still living. Death is final for the one passed on. The Bible says we die once, and then the judgment. It is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment. (Hebrews 9:27) When someone…

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Easter Eve

A close up of the moon with a black background.

Harry Durgin Facebook They didn’t know it was Easter Eve The time between Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection was dark. Jesus told His disciples He would rise on the third day, but they did not comprehend it. Jesus was tortured, mocked, and died a horribly painful death. The centurion, who had seen many deaths, knew Jesus…

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Resurrection Sunday

A field of bluebonnets and pink flowers.

Rejoice! Christ is risen! He was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 1:4) This momentous event is the key to everything. Because Christ lives, Christ lives in believers.* Because Christ is eternal, we will live with Him for eternity.…

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Grief AND Joy

A colorful sunset over the ocean with palm trees.

Harry Durgin Facebook My loving, generous big brother died recently. We’re grieving, of course, with our loss of beloved Tom/Dad/GP. But, Tom/Dad/GP is and was in Christ–a believer, a Christian, a Christ-follower–and he isn’t “lost,” he is in heaven. As a Christian, to be absent from the body means he is at home with the…

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We Underestimate God

The milky in the sky above a rocky beach.

Harry Durgin Facebook We Underestimate God This is not a rebuke. This is a fact. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:9) We can’t even think of all God is able to do! Now to Him who is…

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Jesus Warned Us

A dead tree in the middle of a grassy field.

The Warning And Jesus said to them, “Do you suppose that these Galileans were greater sinners than all other Galileans because they suffered this fate? I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or do you suppose that those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them…

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