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Rams in the Thicket: Good Samaritans in Olney
Rams in the Thicket: Good Samaritans in Olney
Rams in the Thicket: Good Samaritans in Olney
Rams in the Thicket: Good Samaritans in Olney

Rams in the Thicket: Good Samaritans in Olney

Thu, 02/25/2021 - 12:00am

The snowstorm negatively impacted many residents throughout Olney. Although our city had minimal resources such as snowplowing side streets, parking lots and driveways, we did have a “ram in the thicket” as mentioned in Genesis 22:13-14, “Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”

DEVOTIONAL

Wed, 01/20/2021 - 4:00am

The word of God is a vast treasure that is to be sought above all other things in this lifetime. It is more precious than gold, silver, rubies, or any diamond that glistens like the rays of the rising sun. It is food for the soul that gives strength to the mind, it is eternal, and it will never fade away. It is by this word you will find the meaning of life and the purpose for why you exist. It is not a common word to be read halfheartedly, no, it is to be studied with great intentionality, to be revered as holy, for it is a shield and buttress for those who take refuge in it. It is a lamp unto your feet and a light unto your pathway, for every verse point to God’s salvation only found in the person of Jesus Christ.

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Truly Safe

Wed, 01/20/2021 - 4:00am

On that Sunday we hugged. We laughed. We talked about the week that had passed and the one that was beginning. We gathered in rooms all over the church; Sunday school rooms that have heard the gospel proclaimed again and again through the decades. Emerald was in the basement, newly painted with cheerful art on the walls. It’s where several women from our church hid from a devastating tornado that hit Olney in 1951. They stayed there and were safe, sheltered by the building that has stood like a beacon on Main Street since 1916.

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