by 61stcoc | Dec Sun, 2018 | Author, Christian 2 Christian, Ozzie Roberts
I’ve heard this story before. It goes much like this: A worldly reader, up on Bible verses, goes into a popular neighborhood bar and lays down a tidy sum on a bet that Delilah didn’t cut off Samson’s hair. A throng of other patrons, all even vaguely familiar with the...
by 61stcoc | Dec Sun, 2018 | Author, Dr. Taylor A. McKenzie, Weekly Messenger
If God commanded the Christmas season where would He have placed the emphasis? Since people have made this time of the year the season for “giving”, perhaps the following illustration is helpful in answering this question. One Christmas season a man who usually mailed...
by 61stcoc | Dec Thu, 2018 | Author, Christian 2 Christian, Ozzie Roberts
December 16, 2018 Be like Jesus. That is the greatest charge for us Christians. But it is so much easier to say than to carry out. For one, among a litany of requirements, to be even someone like Jesus, it takes owning great faith. For another, it takes being a great...
by 61stcoc | Dec Thu, 2018 | Author, Christian 2 Christian, Ozzie Roberts
December 9, 2018 We’re in Matthew 14, specifically verses 30 and 31: The wind is whipping up harder and harder. The water in the Sea of Galilee is raging and billowing. A boat carrying twelve men tosses about on the waves, clearly out of human control. Fear is in the...
by 61stcoc | Dec Thu, 2018 | Author, Christian 2 Christian
December 2, 2018 Across the bay on the island of St. John in the Virgin Islands, they still tell stories about my grandfather, Henry Roberts. The one that I’ve heard the most – at least from my father – goes this way: Ol’ Henry was walking alone on a road to town one...
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