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Author: Bruce M. Dinsmore

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Every Individual Counts With God

Sunday, December 20, 1998 Bruce M. Dinsmore

A couple of books off my bookshelf got some extra wear and tear – and reading – this year. One is The Grey Seas Under. It's a book by Canadian author Farley Mowat, about the trials and tribulations of a … Read more

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Home Before Christmas

Thursday, December 17, 1998 Bruce M. Dinsmore

I got a chance to go "home" before Christmas, but I didn't want to go. Home, in this case, is not where I live now, but the place where I was born and grew up. That's Windsor, Ontario, right across … Read more

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A Christmas Prayer

Saturday, December 12, 1998 Bruce M. Dinsmore

Lord, maybe what I need this Christmas is a new pair of spiritual eyeglasses, ones that would let me see the hope and trust those ill people had in You, so even if they have died, as we on Earth call it, we know they are alive forever in … Read more

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Touchdown Point

Sunday, November 29, 1998 Bruce M. Dinsmore

Many people, when they hear an aircraft passing overhead, will idly glance up, wondering who is going where, and perhaps wishing they were up there, not down here. Fewer people are aware of the vast electronic radar blanket that covers … Read more

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Not New, Not Improved

Thursday, August 13, 1998 Bruce M. Dinsmore

A while back, I saw a newspaper story on the latest electronic business gadget. The author says, if you want to be on the cutting edge of the digital wave, you need this item. It's an electronic screen about the … Read more

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The Unwanted Loaf

Monday, July 13, 1998 Bruce M. Dinsmore

It was a perfectly ordinary loaf of bread. Baked in a local bakery, rather than conglomerate bread, it was unsliced and packaged in a plain plastic bag with a little paper label. It was unwanted. It was all alone on … Read more

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Seeing With New Eyes (2)

Sunday, April 19, 1998 Bruce M. Dinsmore

Thursday afternoon. I breezed into my eye doctor's office to make an appointment. I was seeing what looked like photographic flashes in front of my eyes. My doctor was out of the country. His receptionist said she was going to … Read more

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Seeing With New Eyes (1)

Saturday, April 18, 1998 Bruce M. Dinsmore

I was working after hours in our office building. I had to deliver something to a colleague's desk. The lights were still on in her part of the office. After I had make the delivery, I stopped off to use … Read more

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First The Darkness, Then The Morning

Sunday, April 12, 1998 Bruce M. Dinsmore

It was the morning of Good Friday. I confess I was only listening to the sermon with one ear, because my mind was on some things going on in my own life. The story of that first Good Friday is … Read more

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The Innermost Self

Thursday, April 9, 1998 Bruce M. Dinsmore

I've been down at the bottom of a mine, but never any place like this. When I was touring the mine, the guide suggested we turn off the lamps on our hard hats. One click and I was in a … Read more

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1 John 2:15-16 – Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world — the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does — comes not from the Father but from the world. (NIV)5

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Luke 18:27 – Jesus answered, "What is humanly impossible is possible for God." (GNT)

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