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Living Dead
There is an organization in missions called “Live Dead.” There is a new generation being called to go the hardest places of the world to proclaim and live out the gospel of Jesus Christ. The challenge is great because for too many years we have called these “closed” countries “hard” to the gospel. They are hard to the gospel because…
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It is Resurrection
Lord, you are RISEN. Let us not be bored with the resurrection. Let us not yawn our way through another service, nodding off because we just don’t think the service is exciting enough. Forgive us for not thinking resurrection is meaningful! Resurrect us in faith. To know we can pray to a risen Savior and he hears. Resurrect us in service. To know you call us to SERVE and…
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We wait for Sunday
The body is laid in the tomb. No movement. No words. Is there hope? We wait.
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Our Father is JOY
“It may be that(God) has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we are.” — G.K. Chesteron, Orthodoxy
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Why We Need Good Friday
Why pause on Good Friday to remember the crucifixion? The most powerful word, “It is finished” was uttered from the cross. The declaration of victory came in the darkest moment, not on the brightest morning. Jesus declares victory in our darkness. We need Good Friday.
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Good Friday
Good Friday is not just one day of the year. It is a day relived in every day of the world, and of our lives in the world. In the Christian view of things, all reality turns around the “paschal mystery” of the death and resurrection of Christ. As Passover marks the liberation from bondage in Egypt, so the paschal…
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Shake off the coma
The friend we have been praying for is experiencing miracle after miracle. He is making astounding leaps in recovery. Even doctors are calling it a miracle. The Church needs to wake up out of its coma and stay awake. To PRAY for closed countries. To PRAY for missionaries and churches in closed countries. To not give up in prayer. To ask…
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Even the enemy makes tactical errors
We have spent the past week in a new level of intercessory prayer, and it is a call to an ongoing battle. A missionary friend was struck down by an illness last Monday and was in a coma most of the week. Doctors scrambled to diagnose the issue, but an ever widening circle of friends and acquaintances began lifting up…
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The not-so-popular side of Passion Week
Palm Sunday. It’s a great day of celebration. And examination. The King has come into his Temple and it’s not a pretty trip. Part of the reading of Holy Week can really grate on a person! 7 “Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is close to me!” declares the Lord Almighty.“Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn my hand…
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Free Speech
We like to think it exists (and in reality, it still does), but what we really mean is this: “I believe in your right to speak freely as long as it agrees one hundred percent with me. If it does not, I will have your job, or your company, or your product… or something to show how shameful it is that you disagree with…
