Author
Lee Rufener
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- Athens, Wisconsin · Athens, WI
Articles
A Good Heritage
People always regard an inheritance as a blessing. It can be invigorating to think that someone left behind a monetary endowment for us to enjoy. It is a gift that we did not earn, but merely became beneficiaries because…
Lee Rufener Athens, Wisconsin
At Home Among the Rocks
I shall take the liberty to stretch the Biblical character of the coney (rock badger) into a creature more common to us today, known as the groundhog. They certainly are a despised folk, as they bear the brunt of the…
Lee Rufener Athens, Wisconsin
Christ the Bread
The feeding of the five thousand is the fourth miracle recorded by John, and is the only miracle recorded by all four evangelists. John was the last to write an account of Christ, and he normally did not repeat much of…
Lee Rufener Athens, Wisconsin
It Was Winter
And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter (John 10:22). As the maddening winds howl about him, man turns his collar to the cold and damp. Little praise arises for the season that greets him…
Lee Rufener Athens, Wisconsin
Freedom in Christ
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. (Galatians 5:1) There is much ado in our land about freedom. It has been a central and…
Lee Rufener Athens, Wisconsin
ALL NATURE SINGS
Our Father’s world is a world unspoiled by human invention and intervention. While sin and technology have warped and stolen many lovely things from the human race, there abide still a few that remain unmarred by…
Lee Rufener Athens, Wisconsin
Power, Love, and a Sound Mind
The winter of 1882 unfolded in the small southern town of Tuscumbia, Alabama. A happy, normal two-year-old girl fell desperately ill with a strange fever. The fever came and went, came and went, and came again. The…
Lee Rufener Athens, WI
Nothing Shall Offend Them
I doubt that there is a soul alive that has not been offended at one time or another. The persistent weeds of evil influence seem to sprout at every corner, testing the best of blooming relationships. The more…
Lee Rufener Athens, Wisconsin
Whose God Is Their Belly?
For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who…
by Lee Rufener Athens, WI
A Sanctified Home
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy … For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt…
by Lee Rufener Athens, WI
The Haven of Rest
And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou…
by Lee Rufener Athens, WI
The Foolishness of Preaching
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto…
by Lee Rufener Athens, WI
Moses in Midian
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb –Exodus 3:1. The back side of the desert has…
by Lee Rufener Athens, WI
The Road to Emmaus
And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad? –Luke 24:17. On June 6, 1944, 156,000 American, British, and Canadian troops landed on a 50-mile…
by Lee Rufener Athens, WI
Is There Not a Cause?
And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause? –1 Samuel 17:29. The story of David and Goliath took place over three millenniums ago and has been a perennial favorite of the young and old ever since. There…
by Lee Rufener Athens, WI
The Dew of Youth
Thou hast the dew of thy youth. Psalm 110:3 There are many aspects of youth which are not virtuous. Many youth of our day experience an early season of callused carelessness and casualty. Often decisions that are made in…
by Lee Rufener Athens, WI
God in the Cloud
…behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud –Exodus 16:10 What a strange phenomenon is this concentrated mass of vapor that navigates the sky above us. In one instance, a cloud can minister such immense…
Lee Rufener Athens, WI
He That Hath Ears To Hear…
Matthew 11:15, Matthew 13:9, Matthew 13:43, Mark 4:9, Mark 4:23, Mark 7:16, Luke 8:8, Luke 14:35 Matthew 11:15; 13:9, 43, Mark 4:9, 23; 7:16, Luke 8:8; 14:35 If there ever was a catch phrase of our Lord Jesus Christ,…
Lee Rufener Athens, WI
THE HEAVENLY CALLING
Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling… –Hebrews 3:1. True wisdom dawns in gradual rays, Minute degrees observed as nil. Beyond the books of youthful days, It beckons thee to yonder hill. Forbear and…
–by Lee Rufener
Sparrows
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father –Matthew 10:29. Of all the many, various winged creatures that frequent the skies, the sparrow is certainly…
by Lee Rufener Athens, WI
Outside the Inn Crowd
Sitting squarely on the great divide of our measured timeline of years lies the incarnate birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. He rightfully owns this place, for no other advent could so astutely impact humanity. The years…
Lee Rufener Athens, WI
The Wisdom of This World
Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? –1 Corinthians 1:20. Perhaps some of us may stumble at the thought that there is a type of…
Lee Rufener Athens, WI
The Strait Gate to Life
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life,…
Lee Rufener Athens, WI
Weep for Yourselves
And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your…
Lee Rufener Athens, WI
