Category Archives: Thanksgiving

Do You Have Good Eyes?

Posted on November 18, 2022 by Bob Bjerkaas

In the English-speaking world, we often speak of having either “good eyes” or “bad eyes.”  A person who has made it into their fifties without needing glasses might say, “I was blessed with good eyes.”  Someone like me, on the … Continue reading →

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A Stone of Help: One Year Later!

Posted on August 16, 2018 by Bob Bjerkaas

“Here I raise my Ebenezer!”  These are words that many of us grew up singing in that great hymn “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing.”  But what do they mean? The second verse of that hymn reads: Here I raise … Continue reading →

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God’s First Gift?

Posted on November 24, 2015 by Bob Bjerkaas

Time for a theology pop quiz!  Question one: What was the first thing we are told God gave to man in the book of Genesis?  Fortunately, there is just this one question.  Unfortunately, given the fact that most of you … Continue reading →

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