May 22, 2021

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Baseball, The Early Church and Jesus

We like sports in our home…we don’t just like them …I would probably say we love them. I am as non-athletic and coordinated as you can get but I am a consummate fan! My husband played collegiate basketball and after a career-ending injury became the first mascot for Harding. Before college, he had to make the decision to take the basketball scholarship from a Christian university or join the Mariners farm system out of high school as a pitcher. Four...

“Man of Sorrows, What a Name!”

  • May 14, 2021
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He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walk, – 1 John 2:6 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. – Galatians 2:20 I have climbed several mountains in my life: Elbert, Quandary, Shavano, and...

Poisoned Wells

  • May 8, 2021
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In 1854, during the reign of Queen Victoria, there was a cholera outbreak near Broad Street in Soho, London. The illness was on a rampage. Within three days, 127 people had perished, and just ten days later, that death toll soared to over 500.  There was very little knowledge about illness or its transmission, but the theory that it was spread through the air was accepted by most people. That is, until a Soho doctor, Dr. John Snow, working closely...