To the Parent of a Dying Child
How do you face disease and death?
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based on Mark 5:21-43.
Jan 13, 2012
Dec 12, 2011
Is it special because of the goodness of man,
Nightmare Before Christmas
Why is Christmas such a special time of year?
Is it special because of the goodness of man, 
or the promise of God?
In this Christmas series, Pastor Dickson explains why Christmas is so special. Listen carefully, for without Christmas, life would be a nightmare.
Click here to view this series of messages.
Dec 12, 2011
Gene was taken to St. Vincent Hospital Toledo where the doctors prepared him for surgery.
This Is My Story: Gene & Lucy Martin
On a Sunday morning in February of 2000, Gene and I prepared to go to church, but we ended up at the hospital instead. This began a very trying time for us but because of our personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, He gave us grace.
Gene had gone out to the van. I was ready to go, but he came back in the house and said, “I’m sick.” I wanted to take him to the hospital, as I suspected a heart attack. He wouldn’t go. A few minutes later he got up from the chair, put on his coat, and went to our van. He didn’t speak. I drove to the Findlay Hospital, and he was there for two days. The doctor told me that Gene was a time bomb ready to go off. He had gone through heart attacks many times. I was praying. I knew it was going to be bad, but I also knew that Jesus was with us.
God’s grace not only sustains and comforts us during bad times but also more importantly gives us eternal life.
The Bible says that Jesus “has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows”; but He was also “wounded for our transgressions.”(1)
Our transgressions, or sins, have separated us from the Holy God; therefore, when we die, we have to pay for our own sins in hell. The Bible says, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”(2)
We cannot have eternal life unless we believe that Jesus died for our sins and rose again from the dead; we also need to confess our sins to God and humbly accept Him as our Lord. Gene and I have trusted Christ and have the comfort that “He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?”(3)
This is the reason that God answers the prayers of His children.
Gene was taken to St. Vincent Hospital Toledo where the doctors prepared him for surgery. 
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Nov 29, 2011
Taking Pleasure in God’s Works
Where are the field cricket’s ears?
Why do some woodpeckers have tongues that encircle their heads?
How does a Venus flytrap work?
Psalm 111 reminds us to take pleasure in the study of God’s wonderful creation.
Oct 10, 2011
This Is My Story: Bill Logan
In November 2007, my world crumbled…
The doctor told me that I had Multiple Myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow. How could this be? I was physically active, reasonably athletic and fairly strong. Since I had seen my sister die from this very same cancer some ten years earlier, I thought that in a matter of months, I would die also.
Having been raised in a Christian home, I was very aware of how the grace of God should be demonstrated in a believer’s life. The Bible shows us over and over the glory of God, but it was because of man’s rebellion against Him that the sentence of death was placed on all mankind. The Bible also tells us that Christ paid this penalty with His own life, and took my sins upon Himself. Though I had received Christ as a young boy, I had been living my life “my way.”
I believe that God brought this cancer into my life to show me that I had not yet fully embraced Christ as the Lord of my life. I started not only reading His word but studying it as well. As I studied, I started highlighting passages that seemed to be speaking directly to me. These passages revealed promise after promise of God’s mercy, wisdom, joy, and peace.
As treatments progressed in early and mid 2008, a stem cell transplant was recommended. My wife and I knew that this would involve a lengthy hospital stay. (more…)
