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Lord You Have Been My Help

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                     One spring, our hen hatched some chicks. One afternoon, when the little chicks were scattered all over the yard, I suddenly saw the shadow of a hawk overhead. What I thought would happen and what did happen were two different things. That mother hen did not run all over the barnyard and jump on top of those chicks in an attempt to cover them with her wings as one might have expected. Instead, to my surprise, she squatted down, spread out her wings and began to squawk. Without hesitation, those little chicks came running to her from every direction and then ducked under those outstretched wings. All that mother hen did was cluck and expand her wings so they knew where to hide. Then she pulled her wings down tight, tucking every little chick safely under her. There was no way that hawk could get to those babies without going through that mother hen (Peggy Joyce Ruth, 2019). A desert is considered harsh due t...
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Brother Saul Welcome to Church

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  Augustine of Hippo was born in 354 AD in Thagaste a small town in North Africa. As a young man, the life of Augustine was characterized by drunkenness, sexual immoralities and other worldly pleasures . He followed various philosophers, only to become disillusioned with their teachings. For nine years he was associated with the Manichean sect. But he gradually became aware that Manicheism was unable to provide satisfactory answers to his probing questions. At this time, Augustine was teaching rhetoric in Milan. One day he went to hear the preaching of Ambrose the Bishop of Milan. At first he went only to hear Ambrose's eloquent style of speaking. But the Bishop's preaching led Augustine to a new understanding of the Bible and the Christian Faith. While outdoors, Augustine heard the voice of a child singing a song, the words of which were, "Pick it up and read it. Pick it up and read it." He thought at first that the song was related to some kind of children's...
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A lifestyle of praise

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                                            A man invited a friend to go hear a preacher, saying, “I want you to hear the most thankful preacher I have ever heard.” The two men weathered a storm to hear him preach. On the way they thought nobody would be there; that even the preacher would not come. But when they got to the little country church, there was the preacher seated on the platform. The stranger said to his friend, “He has nobody to preach to. There’s a storm outside. It looks like we will have a flood. He won’t have anything to be thankful for tonight.”“Yes, he will. He will thank God for something.” When the preacher stood up, he bowed his head and prayed, “Dear Lord, it is stormy outside. It looks as if the roads will wash away before we can get out of the ...
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