If my wife puts up with me another five weeks, we will have been married forty-two years. For those of you too young to remember, things have changed. There were no cell phones or text messages forty-two years ago. E-mail and iPods were not even dreamed of. Even land phones were party lines. So, young teenagers in love back then had to find creative ways to communicate. That's where The Cokesbury Hymnal came in. During long sermons in the little church of our childhood, Sandy and I communicated through song titles. For example, I opened the songbook to “I Need Thee Every Hour" and handed it to her. She passed it back opened to “Open My Eyes That I May See." Encouraged, I replied with “Give Me Your Heart"; she replied with “Almost Persuaded." Elated, I came back with “O Why Not Tonight?" …
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Mark 1:14-20
Mark 1:14-20
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by J. Howard Olds
by J. Howard Olds
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