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April 2015 Blog Posts (48)

Taking a Journey with the Apostle John – Part XVI

Taking a Journey with the Apostle John – Part XVI

1Jn 3:11-15 NIV84 This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. (12) Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous. (13) Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. (14) We know that we have passed from death to life, because we…

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Added by Leonard T on April 19, 2015 at 5:31am — No Comments

Being a light to others

My name is Carissa. I feel like God is calling me to help others in a certain situation. The first thing I will do before helping someone is to seek God's face and asking him to give me the right words to say. God has called us to be a light to others by sharing his story with the hurting and the broken. I do think it's important to help people in need and bring them out of darkness into the light. On March 31st of this year 2015, I saw the movie Do you believe? It's about 12 different…

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Added by carissa fairchild on April 18, 2015 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Default mode – God is Good

Default mode – God is Good.

When something in your world goes haywire, to what do you default? Sure, your computer has default settings, your brain has a default mode network, but do you, one that keeps you emotionally upright, when the world seems to have turned upside down? One that keeps its faith, even when shaken, but does not lose itself? In the recent days, I have been involved in relational settings—

--when a much-loved high school student died from leukemia at…

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Added by Christine on April 17, 2015 at 6:00am — No Comments

Strength from the Rock

Strength from the Rock.

Strength from the Rock. 1 Timothy 1.12; Psalm 61.2-3; Psalm 18.2

The phone rang twice from one son. The phone rang again from the next son. The phone rang yet again from the third son. I missed them all, because I had left my phone upstairs. All were calling about the same thing—a fallen brother. It has been more than a year now since Matthew (now 32) was diagnosed with epilepsy after blunt force trauma to the head, and he has actually been doing quite…

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Added by Christine on April 16, 2015 at 6:00am — No Comments

Flashbacks and warm feelings

Flashbacks and warm feelings. Matthew Five

Perhaps it happens most frequently with a photograph. We walk by the same picture hanging on the wall in our house every day, but on this day—we SEE it. We see it, and we remember, and it takes us back. For instance, on one wall of my home, there is a portrait of me lifting Amy’s (my daughter) veil to kiss her after she was just pronounced ‘…wife,’ with tears brimming in my eyes. Just like that, I am back in that wedding in the park and…

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Added by Christine on April 15, 2015 at 6:00am — No Comments

Getting back to the Gospel of Matthew

Getting back to the Gospel of Matthew. (Chapters 1 – 5, recap)

Greetings:…

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Added by Christine on April 14, 2015 at 6:00am — No Comments

Springtime and Growth.

Hello.…

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Added by Christine on April 13, 2015 at 6:00am — No Comments

George Muller

In the 1800's, English orphans were housed in disease-infested institutions, forced to work long hours, barely fed, and harshly treated.*

George Mueller (1805-1898) gave up all he owned and worked without salary for the sake of these orphans.

Without asking for money, he prayed three orphanages into…

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Added by Tammy on April 12, 2015 at 7:16pm — 4 Comments

Taking a Journey with the Apostle John – Part XV

Taking a Journey with the Apostle John – Part XV

1 John 3:7-10

John emphasizes the fact that the people to whom he is writing, including us that are saved today, are children of God. This identification must forever be recognized and embraced by the believer in…

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Added by Leonard T on April 12, 2015 at 5:29am — 1 Comment

PRAISE THE LORD...

*** PRAISE THE LORD FROM THE EARTH,YOU GREAT SEA CREATURES AND ALL THE DEPTHS.FIRE AND HAIL,SNOW AND CLOUDS ; STORMY WIND,FULFILLING HIS WORD ; MOUNTAINS AND ALL HILLS ; FRUITFUL TREES AND ALL CEDARS ; BEASTS AND ALL CATTLE ; CREEPING THINGS AND FLYING FOWL ; KINGS OF THE EARTH AND ALL PEOPLES ; PRINCES AND ALL JUDGES OF THE EARTH ; BOTH YOUNG MEN AND MAIDENS ; OLD MEN AND CHILDREN . LET THEM PRAISE THE NAME OF THE LORD , FOR HIS NAME ALONE IS EXALTED ; HIS GLORY IS ABOVE THE EARTH…

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Added by RAJESWAR YARLAGADDA on April 10, 2015 at 11:32am — 1 Comment

Let it be Springtime in your Heart!

Springtime is here! With the harsh winter the East Coast of the United States endured, (pictured is a Chicago city street, but no doubt Boston and the New York area)-- all are looking for spring tulips to pop through the ground!…

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Added by Christine on April 10, 2015 at 6:00am — No Comments

challenges to the church - pragmatism

Challenges to the Church - Pragmatism

August 29, 2005…

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Added by thewatchman on April 9, 2015 at 6:04pm — No Comments

Why does the Resurrection Matter so Much?

Why does the Resurrection Matter so Much? Easter, 2015. Last one.

Howdy. …

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Added by Christine on April 8, 2015 at 6:00am — No Comments

Excerpt from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's book "The Cost of Discipleship"

"First faith, then obedience. If by that we mean that it is faith which justifies, and not the act of obedience, all well and good, for that is the essential and unexceptionable presupposition of all that follows. If however we make a chronological distinction between faith and obedience, and make obedience subsequent to faith, we are divorcing the one from the other -- and then we get the practical question, when must obedience begin? Obedience remains separated from faith. From the point…

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Added by Leonard T on April 7, 2015 at 12:24pm — No Comments