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Integrity Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out. – Proverbs 10:9 Have you ever thought you could “get away” with something? Maybe you didn’t report that income on your taxes, or quietly sabotaged the reputation of a person you disliked. »

We Have This Moment So teach us to number our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom. – Psalm 90:12 This morning, I am 13,316 days old. This puts me somewhere around the halfway point of the average lifespan of 27,375 days. Around 10,000 days ago, one of »

New Year's Resolutions “... forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” – Philippians 3:13-14 Most of us make New Year’s resolutions. Often, we resolve to lose »

Unusual Intel The Philistines assembled to fight Israel, with three thousand chariots, six thousand charioteers, and soldiers as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Mikmash, east of Beth Aven. – I Samuel 13:5 In February 1918, as the First World War approached its conclusion, British Major Vivian »

A Little Grace Goes a Long Way “Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.” – Colossians 4:6 My parents might be shocked to read this, but I wasn’t a well-behaved child growing up. It seemed like I was »

I WANT TO DIE FOR HIM Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. – John 15:13 In July 1941, a prisoner successfully escaped what at that time may have been the most terrible place on Earth – the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. »

CAUSE AND EFFECT “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” – Romans 8:28 On this day, 81 years ago, German soldiers stormed across the Polish border and officially began the largest and bloodiest »

FINISH THE RACE Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that »

Freedom and Responsibility This weekend we celebrated the 224th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In all, 56 men from the 13 original colonies affixed their signatures to a document that, if the war were lost, would likely have served as “exhibit A” in their inevitable trials for »

Our Father is Always With Us In May of 1945, just over 75 years ago, the forces of Imperial Japan were on the brink of defeat. Nazi Germany had surrendered at the beginning of the month, and Japan now stood alone, outnumbered, and surrounded. It was simply a matter of »

The New Normal I cannot believe how much our daily lives have changed in the last few months.  I don’t think any of us could have imagined the impact the coronavirus would have when we first heard about it.  Here at the PAYH, we have been on a shelter-in-place order »

Meet Them in Battle Nonetheless! I’m a fan of fantasy, and I especially enjoy the works of JRR Tolkien, a devout Christian who wrote such classics as The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit. His works are highly allegorical and are filled with tales of tremendous bravery, heroism, and self-sacrifice. One »