It is nice to be sought after. Do you remember when as a kid playing outside and picking teams? Do you remember how good it felt to be picked early and not last. Yeah, neither do I. 🙄😄 But it is a great feeling to be wanted and appreciated. It is nice when people reach […]
“All things work together for good.” Romans 8:28. But, sometimes there looks like a disconnect with this verse and people’s lives. We know Christians that have had terrible things happened to them, and some never recovered. It sure looks like some things are not good. “We know that all things work together for good to
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Casper ten Boom and family were deeply devout Christians, including the now famous Corrie ten Boom. Though knowing the danger, did not turn away Jewish people persecuted by the Nazis during WW2. By the end of the war, their “Hiding Place” protected 800 people out of certain death at the hands of the Nazis. When
Why did God call out to Adam, “Where are you?” (Genesis 3:9) People hide because they do not want to be found. They have something that they do not want exposed. There is a tender spot. They are embarrassed and ashamed. “Where are you?” is a foundational question for our spiritual lives. We cannot go
What would it have been like to experience Jesus in His power? We want God to manifest His strength and do something great in our lives. But our requests generally collapse into, “God, fix my problem … but do it from a distance because I don’t feel comfortable with too much outward expression.” The average
1 Timothy 6: 12 Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of eternal life. Palm Sunday is the celebration of the Triumphal Entry, when Jesus came riding into Jerusalem with the praises of the people. They laid down their cloaks and cut branches from palms to pave His way. It was a glorious procession
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We are coming to Resurrection Sunday. Jesus appeared to many after His resurrection. 1 Corinthians 15:6 says He appeared to more than five hundred believers at one time. The experience of seeing someone who you saw die, and now alive would throw your senses into overload. Not a ghost or a phantom, but a person.
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Do we talk ourselves out of living in the anointing that has been created for us? We remember our poor choices made years ago. What should have been done, wasn’t. And what shouldn’t have been done, happened. On this road of life, our past failures have led us to dead-end streets, unpaved, bumpy dirt roads,
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Acts 3:6 “What I do have I give to you: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk!” How is it possible limbs that have never been functional; bones never held weight, muscles and nerves never used, suddenly become fully functional? It was a power flow from a spiritual realm to the natural realm.
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This world screams for our attention. “Alarm! Danger! The disaster is here! The attack is here! This is emergency mode! Defend yourself!” This world’s presence is panic mode. But we should live in a different reality. In Acts 3, Peter and James heal a cripple man. In Acts 4, they are jailed and threatened for
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