All through the last half of the movie Reds the viewers were prepared for Jack Reed’s death. After he had lost a kidney when he was a young man, his physician had warned that an infection could be fatal to a person with one kidney; there were no "wonder drugs" in the World War I period. Toward the end of the movie, when Jack was hospitalized with a high fever in Petrograd, Russia, it was rather obvious that his time had come. His wife, Louise, who had reached his side after a long and difficult - and ...
... little blond head bobs happily. "With a truck in it." "With a truck in it," repeats Rob. "Okay, climb up here." And placing Jack on his knee, Rob begins spinning a tale about a mischievous bunny who gets into all kinds of trouble while zipping around in his ... Indians on Maryland’s Eastern Shore believed that God gave them the bay for transportation and for fish, that God gave them reeds for houses and mats and crabs for delicious food. They also believed that God gave them mosquitoes to show that God could ...
... said, ‘these aren’t tears of sadness, these are tears of joy. I am so happy to be alive in God’s beautiful world!’” (4) Millard Reed had seen God in a bumblebee doing loop-de-loops. He had seen God in his physicians finding and implanting a new liver into his body. He ... /epiphany-2.html. 2. Ray C. Stedman, https://www.raystedman.org/new-testament/john/water-to-wine. 3. Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Nancy Mitchell-Autio and Patty Aubery, Chicken Soup for the Christian Family Soul: Stories to ...
... in Values are out Vanity is in It is the age of Madonna, Dennis Rodman, Gangsta Rap, Sally Jesse Raphael, Jack Kervorkian, Pulp Fiction, and political correctness. Robert Bork, in his magnificent book, Slouching Toward Gomorrah, made this salient observation: "There ... a lighthouse." So I want to say to our church specifically, and to all Christians generally, we are never to be like reeds, shaken by the wind, bowing down before whatever way a Gallup Poll may be blowing. We need to be lighthouses standing firm ...
