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The Quick Scan by Mike Ramey

 

THE REAL DOGE AND THE CONFESSION OF ZACCHAEUS

      Many have heard about the ‘Prayer of Jabez’.  Books have been written and many sermons preached about this Old Testament item, and it may be found in I Chronicles 4:9-10.  However, when you want to talk about the summary of the grace of God impacting one life in search of forgiveness, you have to go to a man called Zacchaeus, the chief of Tax Collectors in the New Testament.  His story is covered in the first ten verses of the Gospel of Luke, C

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Gun Violence Begins at Home

Growing up in the 50’s and 60’s, all I wanted was to be
accepted for who I was – glasses and all, and look like my best girlfriend Susan. What I later learned is that it wouldn’t have mattered what I looked like, because most kids wanted to look like or be someone else.

While most of my friends had strict parents, I didn’t have any close friends (that I knew of) whose parents were verbally (or physically) cruel. I say that because as a kid we had parental permission to visit our close friends an

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