Author: Randy Grathen
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Forgiveness
Story by Scotty Gray. One of the things that bothers me is how we humans have to dumb God down to be comfortable with our relationship. Satirist-philosopher, Voltaire, once quipped, “in the beginning God created man in his own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.” The problem that this… Read more
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Angels Watching Over Us
Story by Randy Grathen. If you’ve ever owned a boat or travel trailer you’ll understand. When I retired from the Air Force, we left Folsom, California and took our 24-foot twin log pontoon with a 40 horse motor with us back to Wisconsin. Three years later we moved to the Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri.… Read more
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Just a Coincidence?
If you would like to hear the story click on the green Listen bar above. Story by: Randy Grathen. God knows the end from the beginning. He (Zacchaeus) ran ahead to a place where Jesus would come, and he climbed a sycamore tree so he could see him. When Jesus came to that place, he… Read more
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Be Thankful You Were Not One of Jesus’s Chosen Twelve.
Story by Randy Grathen. Thank you, Tina Campbell & Jeremy Spring for your invaluable contribution to this story. No modern secular historian would challenge the fact that Jesus existed. He was a man, a preacher and teacher, claiming to be God incarnate, was crucified for those claims, was buried AND three days later his body… Read more
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I Think I Made a Mistake.
Story by Scotty Gray. Many years ago, my friend Robin, was engaged to a man 6 years her senior, whom she dated for 2 years. She came to realize this would not be a marriage based on love. She spoke with her father about her concerns. “Dad, I think I made a mistake. I don’t… Read more
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Why Did Jesus Say It?
Story by Randy Grathen. When Laurie and I moved to Camdenton Missouri, we started church shopping. We attended several. Organ music with a full choir, and gospel hymns. Non-denominational Contemporary-Christian music complete with guitars and drums. Fire and Brimstone preaching, including ‘you’re going to hell if you have guitars and drums in church.’ Huge churches… Read more
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Redneck Wisdom – an Oxymoron.
Story by Randy Grathen. Things I’ve learned… Wisdom – There are only two ways to get it. Live long enough, or hang out with someone who’s already got it. Wisdom does not always go to the elder. I’ve met young people who are wise beyond their years. It comes from experience. The German philosopher Friedrich… Read more
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Why We Believe? – The Tomb is Empty.
Story by Randy Grathen. Murderer, blasphemer, liar, thief. Adulterer, pedophile, envious, glutton, greedy, lustful, prideful, lazy, and angry. All of these are sins according to God. But will any one of them condemn you to hell? No. We are condemned to hell from birth. The list is just some of the reasons why. But more… Read more
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The Nail.
Story by Laurie Grathen. In a land far away, at a time that seems like long ago, Randy retired from the Air Force, and we moved to Stevens Point, Wisconsin. In retrospect, that was a good decision for us because it enabled us to help care for his dad in the last few years of… Read more
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The Habit of Solitude.
By Kristine Barnes. NOTE: In 2019 I wrote a note to my daughters, Myndi the one God allowed me to give birth to, and Karen the daughter-in-love God gave me when our son, West, chose her for his wife. During a study at church called “Lead Like Jesus”, there was a part on Solitude which… Read more