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The Little Book that Revolutionized a Generation

There’s a phrase in a New Testament verse that is easy to overlook, yet has sweeping implications. The verse is Galatians 4:4. Here it is (with verse 5 also) in the NASV: “But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His ...Read More

Shock and Inspiration in the Emergency Room

The most inspirational times in life usually sneak up on you and catch you off guard. And they have all the more impact on your life because of it. It was the mid-1970s and I was working as an orderly in a large Catholic ...Read More

The Fact that You Know It Doesn’t Make It True

Life Lessons from the Front Porch What does it mean to “know” something? Great thinkers and philosophers have been debating this from time immemorial. There is even a branch of study devoted to this. It is called epistemology. The study of how it is ...Read More

My Most Amazing Day –– My 40th Birthday (He’s a Real No-Hair Man)

(NOTE: To download a PDF of this post and read it later, follow this link: https://randymoody.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/My-40th-Birthday-Story.pdf) In 1989, Belmont Church’s pastor, Don Finto, heard God say that he was to “place the leadership of the church in the hands of younger men in whom ...Read More

The Christmas Light

The first Christmas – the one when Jesus of Nazareth was born – occurred in the shadow of vicious hatred, racism, and fear. A candle lit in the midst of utter darkness. A tiny light of hope under a pervasive, ominous blanket of evil. ...Read More

Are You Qualified to Be My Friend?

[Spoiler Alert / Disclaimer – in this post, I may or may not quote from an ancient compendium of deep wisdom which many dismiss out-of-hand as fanciful religiosity. I make no apology for this.] Are you qualified to be my friend? Do you pass ...Read More

Voting According to God’s Will – It’s Not as Simple as You Think

Those of us who would describe ourselves as followers of Jesus, Christians, or “believers,” believe, for the most part, that God has preferences for us in our lives. There are widely divergent views regarding what those preferences include. But we tend to use a ...Read More

Saints and Super Powers

So Mother Teresa of Calcutta is now St. Teresa of Calcutta. In the Holy Roman Catholic Church, a saint is a kind of extra-holy human – a person like you and me, but with a kind of “holy super power.” Teresa’s “super power” was ...Read More

Mom Always Sang – Dad Always Whistled

I didn’t grow up in a “musical family. “ We weren’t the Von Trapp family, the Cowsills, or the Partridge Family. But there was always music in our home. Mom always sang. And Dad always whistled. When it came to singing, Dad couldn’t carry ...Read More

Focusing Beyond the Goal

I’ve heard said it in sermons all my life: kindness is its own reward. Jesus Himself said, we’re told (it’s not recorded in the gospels), that it’s more blessed to give than to receive. We give out of the overflow of our hearts in ...Read More

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