Bible
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I’m fascinated by human nature. I love to know what makes people tick. Instead of looking at the “what” about people, I seek to find the “why” about them. Why do people do what they do? You see, what people do is just a symptom that has some causation which is the why. One of
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Okay, I know I’m going to fire up some of my readers with this one but God has put it on my mind for the past few days so here goes! Recently, I’ve run across a few people who have decided to leave Christianity. There are a variety of specific reason that include: Now let
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I feel silly even having to write this, but you understand that all the antisemitism stuff is Satan’s spiritual war against God’s people, right? Think about it, why would one people group that has existed for more than 3,500 years constantly be under attack by pretty much everyone throughout history? Why have their always been
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Every Tuesday night I preach at a United Gospel Mission (UGM) mens transitional housing unit where there are about 40 guys who have been released from prison within the past two years. I’ve been doing this for about eight years now and it’s a really interesting group to work with. About a third to half
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Most of you know that I love to scroll social media to see what folks are thinking. After the Super Bowl I noticed a ton of Christians responding to the “He Gets Us” ads that played during the game. Unsurprising all the Christians responding to the ad had nothing but negative reviews. If you didn’t
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I hope everyone had a great Christmas! Now that we all are preparing for the New Year I wanted to share one of my favorite scripture verses and how I think it may help all of us in 2014. Psalms 46:10 says, “Be still and know I am God.” It’s a simple little verse that
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Yes it’s true; I talk to myself. My wife gives me a hard time because I’ll be in the shower or just sitting around talking quietly to myself about stuff. Sometimes it’s practicing something I’ll say to someone, making sure my responses are appropriate. Other times I’m just chewing on a problem. I think that
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I’ve had my first Blog request! This from a friend of mine today: Do you take requests? Blog topic: The Book of Job. I was listening to NPR today and they were talking about people’s search for meaning across time and circumstance in this old testament book. It got me to thinking what YOU would
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Well it’s been a while since I’ve put anything on paper. Been fighting migraines so was on a new medication for the past month that pretty much made me a zombie. Got absolutely zero work done so I discontinued the stuff and am nearly clear-headed again! We’ll see, right?! A pastor buddy of mine turned me
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I came across this poem recently – I think I saw it in a book by Charles Swindoll but could not find it there for the life of me so looked it up on the Net – and wanted to share it with you this morning as the basis of what we should talk about.
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