Intersection of Heaven and Earth
We must ignite our thinking about prayer! In prayer we find ourselves in an environment in which God is the pivotal center of action. Prayer places us in a posture of receptivity before God. He…
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Recognizing How and When God Answers
A Christ-follower needs to understand and leverage the privilege and the responsibility of prayer. The believer needs to assimilate and acclimate to the ways God answers prayer. The next post will challenge the disciple to…
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Evening, Morning, and at Noon
New believers are often told that to “grow in the Christian life” they must participate in certain basic disciplines, such as Bible reading, prayer, witnessing, and of course, giving. With the exception of giving, we…
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A Reasoned/ Reasonable Hope, 3
“Declaring truth in an age of universal delusion is a revolutionary act” (Orwell). “The worth of a person is determined by how much truth they can tolerate” (Nietzsche). We live in a day of interactive…
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A Reasoned / Reasonable Hope, 2
This post builds on our critical need for civil conversation. Before engaging cultural issues outside the church, Christ-followers initially need to discuss their theology, faith, convictions, and preferences among themselves. This will not happen randomly,…
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A Reasoned / Reasonable Hope, 1
Civil conversation is on the endangered list in our culture; it’s perilously close to extinction. There are those who refuse to discuss issues, choosing to remain comfortably numb: in their apathetic or fearful silence they…
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A Prophet in the Midst
Ezekiel, whose name means “strengthened by God,” was both a prophet and a priest who ministered to the nation of Israel while they were in captivity to the Babylonian Empire. He was a contemporary of…
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A Messiah Poem
Rescued, snatched, delivered from the dominion of darkness. Transformed, translated into the brightness and radiance of Christ’s kingdom. We experience and enjoy forgiveness of sins! In Jesus we see the God we cannot see. We…
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The Just Shall Live by Faith
The eleventh chapter of Hebrews is a well-known discourse on men and women in the Old Testament whose lives were defined and characterized as being faithful to God. The phrase “the just shall live by…
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A New Kind of Human
I’ve heard about your trust in Jesus, our Master. And I know of your outpouring of love to all of His followers. I cannot stop thanking God for you; it provokes me to remember you…
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