Category: Stories
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A Parable About Worship
Once there was a young girl who loved her mother very much. She wanted to give her mother a special gift for her birthday, so she thought and thought and thought. Finally, she struck upon the perfect idea. She would buy some yarn, take some time, and knit her mother…
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Off The Map
I’m a lover of maps. They speak to me in just the right way. They are certainly functional, but have a certain beauty about them as well. The way the roads, rivers, and topographical lines all come together to convey so much information about where I am – or a…
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Chirp, Chip, Charlie, Chuck, and God
A quick explanation: On Monday, my friend Danny challenged me to write a children’s story. So I thought about how to expand “The Cricket’s Tragedy.” Before it was finished, though, it had morphed into less of a children’s story and more of a parable. Here was that attempt. Chirp, Chip,…
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Sealed In Blood
“Guilty!” was the verdict read. With trembling lip, I bowed my head. Knowing well the crimes I’d done In the name of love, or greed, or fun. I’d known the truth of life and law, But chosen sin’s alluring draw. So here I stood, no other choice. With no excuse,…
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The Price For Birds
Almost every year on Good Friday, Paul Harvey would this story: A preacher was walking down the sidewalk one day between his church and the corner market. In a little alleyway, he saw a young boy with several little birds in a beat-up cage. He watched for a moment as…
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The Cricket’s Tragedy
Imagine that you’re walking through your garden and you see a cricket perched on one of your plants. What is his world like? That little cricket has a place that it hides and sleeps, and it comes out to eat. That’s its life. It operates mostly by sound, feel, and…
Between The Ditches 