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The End of a Decade?

ByIsrael Shaw

It may be the most innocuous of all arguments within the last two centuries. That is if you forget the argument I had with my brother as a child when he told me to name one thing in life that didn’t have political implications. My answer: lint. It was the one and only argument where…

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Today is Pentecost

ByIsrael Shaw

The second most important day to commemorate in early Christianity after Resurrection Sunday was Pentecost. How I lament the loss of this celebration of the giving of the Holy Spirit to every individual believer in contemporary times. But there is nothing to stop us in our families to celebrate this day. Here are two resources…

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For The Sweet Mother In My Life On This Joyous and Momentous Mother’s Day

ByIsrael Shaw

Dear cherished lovely Lady of whose value the world cannot esteem or estimate for you are truly beyond being some mundane mathematical equation (such as 2+2=4)  but rather are more like an esoteric mathematical investigation that promises to carry on into oblivion (like Fermat’s Last Theorem, only that was solved after 300 years so maybe…

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ON ST. PATRICK’S DAY, DRINK A TOAST TO ALL: FRIENDSHIPS GOOD AND GREAT

ByIsrael Shaw

Originally published on Sunday March 14, 1999 in the St. Louis Post Dispatch By Bill McClellan Nobody, not even an Irish kid, grows up thinking that he’d like to become a leprechaun. It’s something that just happens. For Hap McAlevey, it began to happen 17 years ago. Wait a minute. This is an Irish story,…

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Father’s Day for Dummies

ByIsrael Shaw

Loooovvveee Father’s Day! Don’t you? Breakfast in bed. Cards from smiling ladies as we shuffle out to church. Come home to find a little lady bringing me my slippers. Watch something sporty – even if the only thing on is NASCAR. Fall asleep in my lazy boy recliner while someone tucks me in as another…

Unveiling God’s Plan: The Star Prophecy in Numbers 24:15-19 Revealed
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Unveiling God’s Plan: The Star Prophecy in Numbers 24:15-19 Revealed

ByIsrael Shaw

Jesus fulfills Balaam’s prophecy in Numbers 24:15-19. This prophecy tells us that the Bible has long proclaimed that the coming Messiah is also God. God and the promised Redeemer are the same. This tension established a powerful motif within Judaism from its inception. The motif shows us an all-knowing, merciful Creator who also redeems us from sin, as the Messiah promised in Genesis 3:15.

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