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by Kevin Burton I believe it was the great Marty Brennaman, on the Cincinnati Reds radio network, who used to call the first game of a three-game series the “lid-lifter.” Let’s tack that one on, at the very beginning mind you, like the first pitch in the top of the first inning, to …
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by Kevin Burton If laughter is the best medicine, as Reader’s Digest suggests, sign me up for the laughter of Sarah. Not that it was all fun and games. I’m talking about Old Testament Sarah, wife of Father Abraham, patriarch of the nation of Israel. You’ve heard the saying about he …
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by Kevin Burton “I have been through hell,” was a quote from one of the Israeli hostages released this week by Hamas. Maam, you have been through severe trauma of a degree I can’t imagine, but you have not been through hell. You don’t get through hell. The Bible says hell is …
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by Kevin Burton It took exactly three verses for the Bible to start talking about light. “Let there be light,” God said. And there was light. Read backward to Genesis 1:2 and you see that “the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” …
by Kevin Burton Our home Bible study has left Genesis for now and gone to Esther. But before we get too far from Noah and the ark, a few more stray thoughts. Or should I say “astray thoughts?” Thoughts that show I have gone astray, at least in the moment. I wrote …
by Kevin Burton Not sure why, but I had never thought about what fish were doing during the great flood described in Genesis chapter seven, until now. My home Bible study has been in Genesis for the past two months. The first few chapters have not been easy for me. Comedians have …
by Kevin Burton The kid thing, the desire to have and raise children, is something I never, never got and don’t get. So when we look into a demand by Rachel, wife of Jacob, in Genesis chapter 30, for me it’s a study in polar opposites. “Give me children or else I …
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