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What a blessing we have with faith’s journey built through Jesus.
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(Updated April 13)
Unseen by human eyes, a great exchange took place as Jesus hung on the cross. He took all our sin upon Him and bore the wrath of every single one . . . past, present, and future.
From Romans 8:38-39: “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Charles Stanley (1932-2023) was an American pastor and Christian writer. He was dedicated to leading a teaching ministry.
This informative post will be published on Saturday in place of my regular one. You are invited to participate with the opening question.
What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has T in it?
(answer found at the end of this post)
The 28th American President, Woodrow Wilson, served two terms (1913-1921). He was the first President to be from the Democratic Party since Grover Cleveland was elected in 1892.
Here are a few interesting facts about President Wilson:
Wilson was elected to the Presidency in 1912, and his campaign benefited greatly from the split in the Republican Party. Current President William Howard Taft was the Republican candidate, but former President Theodore Roosevelt received the nod as the Progressive candidate.
As President, Wilson pursued a progressive agenda. He welcomed legislation which created the Federal Reserve system in 1913 and later the Federal Trade Commission. One of the major flaws of his administration was returning segregation to many areas of the Federal Government’s workforce.
In 1920, two dynamic Constitutional amendments were approved during Wilson’s tenure in the White House. The 18th Amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. The 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote.
As President, much of Wilson’s time and energy was consumed with the war in Europe. The Great War (later renamed World War I) began in 1914, and it would not end until the Armistice was signed in November, 1918. Wilson worked tirelessly to keep the United States on neutral ground in order to stay out of Europe’s conflict.
Finally in 1917, the war crept closer to America, and Wilson asked Congress for a resolution to declare war on Germany and its allies. The Great War now became a legitimate world war. Wilson had narrowly defeated Republican candidate Charles Evans Hughes for re-election in 1916. Ironically, Wilson promised to keep the country out of war.
Wilson’s lasting legacy as President was wrapped up in his “Fourteen Points” as the world moved into peacetime at the end of 1918. Wilson’s framework for the post-war years called for the formation of an international body, the League of Nations, as an early version of a “United Nations” for lasting preservation of world peace.
As Wilson campaigned across America in the fall of 1919 to bring public pressure upon the United States Senate to ratify the country’s membership in the League, he suffered a stroke. With the President left partially paralyzed, First Lady Edith Wilson acted as the President’s unofficial gatekeeper. The Senate voted down American membership in the League of Nations.
A teapot.
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Just as our prescription changes for eyeglasses and contacts, our outlook may improve when we trust to view life through an updated lens.
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(Updated April 12)
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was the 28th President of the United States.
Witnessing
Savior’s light
Tomorrow will wait
Worry less, pray more
Today
Receiving
Savior’s peace
Burdens take rest
Healing waters of grace
Hope
Fulfilling
Savior’s love
Forgiveness erases darkness
Walking mercy’s Emmaus Road
Redemption
This series of poems (written in the German-inspired style of Elfchen or Elevenie) shares a total of eleven words in each poem, with a sequence by line of one, two, three, four, and one words.
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God’s Word blesses with a daily connection to His light. Without it, Jesus would remain absent in the darkness of one’s empty faith.
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(Updated April 11)
Our Lord received Himself in the fire of sorrow, He was saved not from the hour, but out of the hour.
From John 12:27-28: “Now My soul is troubled. And what should I say: ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour. Father, glorify Your name. Then a voice came from heaven, ‘I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.'”
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish evangelist and Christian teacher. Following his death from an illness while in Egypt during World War I, his wife took on the task of transcribing the detailed notes she had written from his lectures and sermons. Gertrude Hobbs Chambers’ efforts resulted in the publication in 1924 of MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST. I frequently read from this devotional, and it has greatly deepened my faith and understanding of God’s Word.
Sunset frames day’s end
Horizon returns light
Spirit shutters wind
Dreams ready to take flight
Beyond nightly moon
Every hour, beaming bright
Peace transcends below
Full of joyous delight
Distant, twinkling star
Suspended, flying kite
Hope gathers above
Darkness sparkles, all white
Breath of wayward cloud
Blocking out moon’s eyesight
Gentle breeze exhales
Skies brighten, rest of night
Final hour’s countdown
Horizon preps rewrite
Plot thickens again
Sunrise swaps out moonlight
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Experience is gathered from earlier mistakes, as life’s journey encourages another positive step forward.
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(Updated April 10)
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