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Indexed issues, last 90 days
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Sep 30, 2026
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Jul 22, 2026

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  1. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    Bread and Wine #41 (opens the original)

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    Read Colossians 3:18-4:1.Husbands, your bitterness toward your wife is not acceptable to God.Wife, your backbiting of your husband is not acceptable to God.Children, your disobedience to your parents is not acceptable to God.Parents, your provocation of your children is not acceptable to God.Employees, your resentment of your boss is not acceptable to God.Employers, your abuse of authority is not acceptable to God.Why? Because Jesus is your Mas

  2. Issue · Sep 25, 2026

    A Short Poem Drafted in My Head in the Van at 6.30am (opens the original)

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    Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedI, a fragmented man have seen the light of my children’s faces in the rising sun of a merciful new day.

  3. Issue · Sep 24, 2026

    Love Stronger Than Death (opens the original)

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    Who redeems your life from the pit, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion;Here are some more benefits from the Lord we are not to forget. King David says that the Lord has redeemed us. To be redeemed means to be rescued. In the Law, the redeemer, the rescuer, is the closest kinsman. The Bible calls him the kinsman redeemer. If you get sold into slavery, or taken in battle, or killed, it was the kinsman redeemer who would rescue you, or avenge you. The promise here is that God will re

  4. Issue · Sep 22, 2026

    Bread and Wine #40 (opens the original)

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    Part of maturity means understanding the vastness found in something so simple.Take this phrase for example, when a wife says to her husband, “Honey, today is Saturday.”Well, if it is 6 am and your wife rolls over in bed and says “Honey, it’s Saturday” you know she means, don’t wake me up. You get the kids, etc.If she says it in a text message when you are out on the job site, you know she means, “get your butt home.”If she says it to you when you are loading the guns in the back of the truck, y

  5. Issue · Sep 17, 2026

    Forgiveness and Healing (opens the original)

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    Who pardons all your iniquities,Who heals all your diseases;We are not to forget God’s benefits toward us, and chief among them, King David tells us, are God’s forgiveness and His healing. God pardons our iniquities. Another word for iniquity is guilt. A person becomes guilty when they break a law. Iniquity is lawlessness, and lawlessness brings guilt from a judge. The Bible tells us that sin is lawlessness because all sin is a breaking of God’s Law, and when we break God’s Law, we become guilty

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