<Sermon I gave at Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary on April 29> Please open your Bibles to II Kings 5. Part of the story was read earlier. I would like to recount it in my own words. The story starts in Israel. A young girl... I am going to call her Nachah... because... well why not? …
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“Ridiculous!” growled General Naaman to his entourage. “I was telling myself: He will SURELY come out, stand and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and will wave his hand over the spot and cure this disease,” motioning to the area he kept carefully concealed from view. “Ridiculous indeed,” said one servant. “I know …
I used to collect comic books. Most of my comics were from the 70s into early 90s. However, I do have a few much older comics. One of them is a "Blue Beetle" comic. Annoyingly, a kid who owned it long ago wrote his name on the cover. On the other hand, doing so brought …
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