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The JOYS of Prayer
It is often quite easy to think of the “struggles” of prayer. What are the JOYS you have had in your prayer journey?
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The Focus of Prayer
I am beginning to teach a series on prayer at our church. The text for Sunday is from Luke 10 and 11. In Luke 10 we have the story of Mary and Martha. Mary sat at the feet of Jesus. Martha was busy with serving. Prayer is a powerful reminder to make sure you keep the main thing the main…
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Transitions
There are always transitions we deal with in life. Almost three years ago I went through a huge transition in one night as I realized our boys were in a completely different stage of life. It was weird that night, but I knew it was just a time of life for me and have enjoyed that transition. We shifted gears…
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The Vulnerability of Prayer
It’s a risky thing to pray and the danger is that our very prayers get between God and us. The great thing in prayer is not to pray, but to go directly to God…. at the very root of your existence, you are in constant and immediate contact with the infinite power of God. There is no such thing as…
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The Root of the Human Condition: We All Want to be God
The root of human failure is the desire to be like God, or be God. We strive to fight off what is already set. We will be crushed if we keep thinking WE are “god.” Yet, we keep trying. A Russian billionaire is funding the next great project: Although James Cameron’s “Avatar” took place more than 140 years into the…
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Pray Like This
Dallas Willard gives a paraphrase of the Lord’s Prayer: Dear Father always near us, may your name be treasured and loved, may your rule be completed in us- may your will be done here on earth in just the way it is done in heaven. Give us today the things we need today, and forgive us our sins and impositions…
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Your face, Lord, will I seek
We have come to an end of one journey in “Eat This Book.” This summer has been so immensely enjoyable I am hesitant to face what might be “next.” For the entire summer I had the joy of knowing what was ahead in our reading, and also the joy of knowing our congregation together was going to “preach the sermon”…
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Apple Decides to Keep Suing
And in other news, Apple, Inc. has decided to pursue other copyright infringements bolstered by the success of their lawsuit against Samsung. Since they now own the genius design of rectangles with rounded corners, which, up until the birth of Steve Jobs had never even been thought of before, they have decided with their legal team that they first came up…
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When This World Fails
Revelation 18 is an interesting picture. Babylon… the world’s system… that which so many have put their hope in for so long… has fallen. It has been exposed for the corruption at its core. It has been exposed as inadequate, to say the least. The Kingdom of God is revealed as what is lasting and powerful. Yet, so many weep over the…
