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December 5, 2025 — Our Caring Creator
“It is possible that God says every morning, ‘Do it again’ to the sun.” —G.K. Chesterton As the Lord begins His questions about animals, it’s quite touching where He starts. “Can you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions, when they crouch in their dens, or lurk in their…
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December 5
JESUS, FRIEND of COMMONERS: “And the common people heard Him gladly” (Mk 12:37). James Hastings writes: God often uses minnows to catch salmon. It may be the consolation that He gives to the ungifted, that they should be the means of bringing to Jesus the eminently useful. Andrew did a good day’s work when he…
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December 5 Petition Mission
“I am a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in.…Give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil” (1 Ki 3:7, 9). This is the humility God loves to exalt. The Lord was pleased with Solomon’s request since “God…
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December 5
C.S. Lewis writes about his years as an atheist: “My argument against God was that the universe was so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man doesn’t call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe…
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December 4, 2025 — Information Transfer
You want rain? Elijah-like, talk to the God who made the clouds, because the clouds aren’t listening. The Lord makes two final appeals concerning Job’s interaction with the inanimate world. He asks, “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that an abundance of water may cover you? Can you send out lightnings, that they…
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December 4
CHRIST our BRIDEGROOM: “Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!” (Mt 25:6). You remember when the unnamed servant came to woo a bride for Abraham’s “only beloved son”? He showed Rebecca a sampling of Isaac’s wealth since, as he said, “to him he has given all that he has” (Gen 24:36). Would…