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April 2021

From the Second ChairSpringtime!Being raised in southern California, we knew almost nothing of the changing of the seasons. But that all changed when we moved to northern California in the 1990s.Up here the winters are a lot colder, the summers…
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March 2021

From the Second ChairBack to ChurchPsalms 122:1 – “I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”David described his emotions when his neighbors beckoned him to join them on their way to…
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June 2023

We live in a world that is full of selfishness and pride. Turn on your television, and you’ll see a host of people looking to make a name for themselves. Or scroll through social media, and you will see countless…
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June 2023

Having grandsons who are one-and-a-half and twoand-a-half years old in our home every week,we naturally have a storehouse of toys forthem to play with.Railroad tracks with trains, hot wheel cars anddinosaurs, soccer balls, basketballs, and tennisballs. They are very busy…
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June 2023

HIS UNSHAKEN LOVEJune begins summertime for most people. The kids are out of school and vacations begin. It is also the beginning of the hot weather time of the year. Air conditioners earn their keep and BBQs get cleaned up…
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May 2023

PLAYING TO ONE AUDIENCEHave you ever felt like you couldn’t please anyone no matter how hard you were trying to please everyone? Or have you ever worked hard to make someone happy and failed? Just making dinner can be a…
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May 2023

Growing up I lived across the street from theWilliams family…they were a great family.There was Mom and Dad; the oldest son Jimwas my age; there were two middle sisters anda younger son.About Christmas time one year, Jim’s dadsuggested to him…
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May 2023

If My People Who are Called by My Name,will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.So said…
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April 2023

In a cemetery in Hanover, Germany, is a grave on which huge slabs of granite and marble were placed, cemented together and fastened with heavy steel clasps. It belongs to a woman who did not believe the resurrection of the…
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April 2023

In the 1960s my father was a packaging manager for HuntWesson foods in Fullerton, California. One day a manworking on the labeling machinestopped the packaging line becausesomething was wrong.When my father got to his station theman explained that the machine…
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April 2023

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?Are you looking forward to Easter? With the advent of April, we can certainly say that we have already had our showers, so bring on the flowers. At least, we’ll be looking for the Easter Lilies…
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