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Demons Are Like cockroaches
No Wonder You’re Anxious Jan Smith February 20, 2011 Imagine this: you walk through a doorway, and suddenly find that you’ve stepped into some kind of transporter that put you down in the middle of a war zone somewhere in the Middle East. Bombs are exploding, bullets are flying, people are screaming, and others are…
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The History of APRONS
Jan Smith – January 3, 2009 Someone sent this to me on the internet. I liked it, so thought I’d post it here for others to read. I’m 66, and I can remember, when I was a small boy, seeing my own mother doing many of the things described in this article. We didn’t live…
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Giving Thanks to the Father
Jan Smith – November 26, 2008 I recall a story once about a young woman who was showing off her new kitchen to her grandmother. The kitchen was bright and spacious, and had all the latest gadgets and appliances. After taking it all in, the older woman asked her granddaughter to name the one thing…
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Alaskan Adventure – 2008 (Part 4)
Jan Smith – 07/19/2008 It’s 5:17 AM (Alaska time) as I sit down to write this. In a couple of hours Joanne and I will be at the airport in Fairbanks. We’re heading home. What a GREAT time we’ve had!!We even had our picture taken, all the way from Minnesota: Here are a couple of…
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Alaskan Adventure – 2008 (part 3)
Jan Smith – 07/17/2008 Question: what do you do when you’ve come a long way to see beautiful scenery and the scenery looks like this? (There are supposed to be mountains at left in the background.<s>) Answer: you focus on things that are near, and leave the sky out of the picture. Example: We’ve remained…
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Alaskan Adventure – 2008 (part 2)
Jan Smith – 07/15/2008 I haven’t much time to write today and my internet connection is weak, so I’ll just let a few photos say it for me. I’ve included pics from various parts of our road adventure just to give you an idea of how far we’ve come. The first one is a nice…
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Alaskan Adventure – 2008
Jan Smith – 07/10/2008 I’m sitting in an RV parked at Eagle’s Rest in Valdez, eating fresh halibut for lunch while editing photos and writing this. Joanne shot this photo of the mountains from a vantage point at Delta Junction after 11:00 PM Sunday evening. The weather went from hot and sunny in Fairbanks to…
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Your Father Knows What You Need
if we whine about how much gasoline costs, do we not betray our unbelief in a God who provides?
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Work With All Your Heart
Jan Smith – 03/10/2008 “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men” (Colossians 3:23) The essence of a genuine Christian spirit is this: how do we behave when nobody is watching? I thought about that as I left for work this morning. I had just…
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So Near And Yet So Far
Jan Smith – 02/27/2008 The telephone rang the other day. I answered and, much to my delight, my daughter Jenni was calling from Fairbanks, Alaska. (I should mention that Joanne and I live in Minnesota.) Jenni said they were on the way to a store, and realized their route would take them right past the…
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He Will Keep Me Safe In His Dwelling
Jan Smith – 02/26/2008 – 8:05 AM I just finished today’s reading from “Still Higher for His Highest”, a book of daily devotional readings by Oswald Chambers. Here’s what I read: “Set Upon a Rock” For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the…
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You Must Be Born Again
How I despised that phrase: “born-again”! Like squeaky blackboard chalk, it grated on my sensibilities. I knew people who said they were born again. As far as I could tell, most were pompous, holier-than-thou people claiming some sort of spiritual superiority. I was making a mistake a lot of people make: dismissing the message because…