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Monthly Archives: December 2020

I Feel Like An Orphan

Hospice Chaplain Steve Durkac Posted on December 8, 2020 by Steve DurkacApril 23, 2024

With the October 21, 2020 passing of my mother, I am beginning to feel what I’ve heard expressed so many times by adult children following the death of their last living parent. I am feeling the sentiment expressed by surviving children who say, “I feel like an orphan.” For me, it’s been over six-weeks of “I feel like an orphan” … Continue reading →

Posted in Mere Observations | Tagged Adoption, adult adoptee, I feel like an orphan, John 14:18, orphan

NIV, ESV, and Translations

Hospice Chaplain Steve Durkac Posted on December 4, 2020 by Steve DurkacSeptember 16, 2025

If you follow my Today’s Daily Promise devotionals you have likely noticed that I have recently been using the New International Version, having recently switched from using the English Standard Version. In this post I want to explain why I have been using the NIV again. This story has to begin in 1980 when I became a born again believer … Continue reading →

Posted in Mere Observations | Tagged Bible translation, Bible Versions, CrossHope Chapel, daily devotional, English Standard Version, ESV, KJV, New International Version, NIV, Today's Daily Promise, translations
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