Rose

SOMETHING TO BITE INTO

Everyone loves a luscious piece of fruit – a tree-ripened apple, a juicy peach. Ruby red strawberries. Maybe that’s why the result of the Holy …

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72,000 ANGELS ON HOLD

The air was thick with the smell of fear. The powers of darkness, armed and dangerous, converged on the little group in the Garden. Jesus …

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TEARS IN HEAVEN

No way! God will wipe away all our tears, right? And yet I hear someone crying. Oh, it’s John!  “I wept and wept because no …

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NEVERENDING FIRE

We know about the fire of judgment. But there is another fire for the believer – the fire that we offer up to God day …

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PIERCED EARS

We might startle at these words in 1 Jn. 2:6: “Whoever claims to live in Him must live as Jesus did.” Really? A challenge! So …

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THE FINNISH MONTHS

The old year has survived its darkest days, and now the earth turns toward light. We get the first glimpses in Tammikuu, Turning Month, JANUARY. …

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SWALLOWS AND SPARROWS

How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!   My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out …

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SOMEBODY TOLD ME

“Blessed are those whose strength is in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage. As they pass through the Valley of Baka, they make it …

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DESPERATE FOR GOD

Psalm 84 assumes that on this highway to Heaven, we will pass through the Valley of Baka. The Valley of Weeping. Yes, it happens to …

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HIDING PLACE

Did you ever have a favorite childhood hiding place, a place where you felt safe from the world? I used to love to play under …

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