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Behind the Grindstone: Deaf and Blind

| Bill Bunting | Behind the Grindstone
You looked for answers
In your life
Amongst the turmoil
Stress and strife

Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: Romans 7:14–25a (ESV)

| Administrator | Grace Lutheran Church Devotionals
We know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. I do not understand my own actions.

Behind the Grindstone: Wood Eye

| Bill Bunting | Behind the Grindstone
There was a time in times past before the homestead act when the prairie was open range. Some called it free range or free graze, not owned by anyone but controlled and grazed by those tough enough to keep what they claimed.

Long Time Gone: The Places That Prove We Were Here

| Raina Lucero | Long Time Gone
In 2026, the United States marks 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and Colorado marks 150 years since becoming a state.

Old Glory 250 Years

| Bill Bunting | Behind the Grindstone
He had taught him Americans history
Down throughout the years
And it had done them both well
Or so it now appears

Long Time Gone: Water Beneath the Sand

| Raina Lucero | Long Time Gone
There are stories buried under the plains that do not look like stories at first.

Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: Romans 6:12–23 (ESV)

| Administrator | Grace Lutheran Church Devotionals
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.

Behind the Grindstone: Two Hundred Fifty

| Bill Bunting | Behind the Grindstone
Man’s one desire was to be free So he stood and fought for the right to be Thirteen small colonies on foreign land Called the Crown’s bluff and called her hand

Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: Matthew 9:35—10:8 (ESV)

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Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Behind the Grindstone: Cowboy Romance

| Bill Bunting | Behind the Grindstone
He thought he’d load her up
And take her for a ride
After all for more than twenty years
She had been his bride

Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: Hosea 5:15–6:6 (ESV)

| Administrator | Grace Lutheran Church Devotionals
I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me. “Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.

Behind the Grindstone: Wandering Wind

| Bill Bunting | Behind the Grindstone
Well, hello there you wandering wind
You are back my old friend
You’ve returned after all these years
Whispering yearnings in my ears

Behind the Grindstone: Stranded

| Bill Bunting | Behind the Grindstone
To celebrate their anniversary
They had went on a cruise
Bob said he figgered
He didn’t have much to loose

Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: Psalm 8 (ESV)

| Administrator | Grace Lutheran Church Devotionals
O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. 2Out of the mouth of babes and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.

Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: John 7:37–39 (ESV)

| Administrator | Grace Lutheran Church Devotionals
On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”

Behind the Grindstone: All Boy and the Others

| Bill Bunting | Behind the Grindstone
It seems nicknames and the southern culture go hand in hand. In one area we frequented in the past almost every man had a nickname.