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I promised a new story this time and it’s an excellent example of a particular type of story — those in which God works in our lives through the words and actions of other people. Let’s call this category: The working of God’s redemptive grace from one person to another. The relationship between these two…

For the last several newsletters we discussed the movie Signs by M. Night Shymalan and demonstrated that although a storyteller can claim to not believe in the God of the Bible, he can still write a very touching story about the loss of faith in the midst of inexplicable tragedy, and then know the perfect…

For the last two times we have been discussing the movie Signs by M. Night Shymalan. I hope you have thought about what I asked you last time:  If you were God and you wanted to speak to Graham (who lost his faith because the circumstances surrounding his wife’s death were so unlikely), what might…

Last time we began with the movie Signs, by M. Night Shymalan. In this story, aliens arrive on earth . . . for real. There are spaceships in the night sky all across the world, but they have also been secretively scouting the surface on foot. It seems the people of earth are getting ready…

We’ve been talking for some time about God’s love, that it is the principal essence of the universe. Without it, there would be nothing, for it is the reason God chose to create in the first place.  For those of us who have come to know the Father through His Son, that love has become…

One of the most powerful, meaningful, and significant words in the Bible is the Hebrew word checed, pronounced kheh’-sed. We have been talking about God’s love, that it is the essence of our lives. God didn’t create a physical universe because he was bored. He created because He wanted to have an intimate and loving…

Last time we looked at two stories, the song Pretty Fair Maid in the Garden, and the movie Cast Away. In both stories, a woman is in love with a man who has gone away and not returned — one to war and one on a plane that went down in the middle of the…

Last time I gave you an assignment. I asked if you would listen to the song Pretty Fair Maid In The Garden, by Tim O’Brien. It can be found on the album Fiddler’s Green. Hopefully you have a music streaming service, but if not, you can still find the lyrics online if you search the…