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  • Each day is one day closer to Jesus

    Joan Clayton PNT religion columnist

    Have you ever returned to the home of your childhood and find it to be almost unrecognizable? You had remembered it so vividly but now it looks so different? My grandmother lived by the highway in a small town. Every time we pass her house I can almost smell baked gingerbread with a glass of cold fresh milk. I can almost see her flower garden and hear her singing those grand old church hymns. Even the initials on her tree carved by my sweetheart are gone. Have you met someone recently that you knew many years ago and barely...

  • Persevere and hold on to God's promises

    Joan Clayton PNT religion columnist

    A cross without a crown, a victory without a battle and a testimony without a test and we have nothing to overcome. The struggle in the cocoon finally emerges. In God's timing it bursts into the light with beauty and soars on wings of victory. I see similarity in life's difficulties. Of course the big difference is "You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them; because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world" (1 John 4:4, NIV). In life's struggle I am tempted to complain. I don't like to...

  • Silence helps us hear God's voice

    Joan Clayton PNT religion columnist

    Many voices compete for our attention. The demands of employment, family obligations and other activities seldom leave a quiet time in our busy schedules. Finding time is important for bodies and souls. Let's get alone with God and keep silent. After all life can only be lived one day at a time. We can only accomplish a task one at a time and it takes some silence. I like to read this scripture when I'm stressed. "Be still and know that I am God I will be exdalted among the heathen, I wil be exalted in the earth" (Psalm 46:10...