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Conviction vs condemnation
By
Linda G. Howard
It’s a tricky thing. We desire to follow God but we stumble over our own good works. It’s a s0litary venture. Yet, the cry of our hearts is to be understood not only by God but by another skin-faced person. Too often in my walk with the Lord, I find myself fumbling around to hear…
Mocking vs glorification
By
Linda G. Howard
About 1400 years ago, the Roman Catholic Church and the Byzantine (Greek Orthodox) Church unofficially adopted a fun celebration the day before All Saints’ Feast Day. The day became known as All Hallow’s Eve or Halloween. The purpose of this time was to mock evil. Dressing up like skeletons and wearing death masks, people–young and…
A nickel for ten
By
Linda G. Howard
As a child, Mr. Milligan’s truck filled with produce and convenience store items came through our neighborhood each day. I could buy ten pieces of molasses-nut candy for a nickel. Okay, I’m showing my age. The convenience-store concept and the economics of sugary sweets has changed in drastic ways over the past 50 years. In…
Cheap Grace–part 1
By
Linda G. Howard
I hate cheap grace. A wealthy farmer in a small town in South Carolina bought his son a new red BMW for his sixteenth birthday. The boy took the car out one night, got drunk and totalled it. The next day, this father took the errant son to the car dealer and purchased another BMW;…
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