Category: Pastors and Church leaders
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divine discontent
…for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am… in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need. (Phil 4:11-12) As a disciple of Christ — there should be within you a secret that sustains you. Growing…
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wisdom
There was a young man named Solomon. His father had died, and he found himself to be King. A daunting task for anyone, much more so for a young man. The Lord appeared to him in a dream one night. “Ask what I should give to thee” said the Lord. “I’m just a child” Solomon…
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idolatry
You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. John 5:39 There is an idolatry sometimes in our hearts that needs to be addressed. How we need to apply the scriptures to our lives! How we need men and women who can teach the…
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a word to pastors
The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” John 3:8 This verse beautifully illustrates the way the Holy Spirit works: He moves where HE wishes. He goes where HE…
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tolstoy
I have been re-reading Leo Tolstoy’s book, Confession. I picked this up in Canada a few years ago and I think I am on my third read. One of the greatest writers of all time, Tolstoy earned fame for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina in the the mid-1800’s. Confession is one of…
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smythe
Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make swords or spears.” So it came about, on the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who [were] with Saul…
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Rise Up: History, Revival and The Word
My latest book I’m reading is A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada by Mark Noll. This was incidentally, the textbook from the class that my wife and I met in almost nine years ago. I love history. It’s fascinating to me. My wife thinks I’m weird. Call me weird, but not…
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the deceptive blue
…for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God… Romans 3:23 This is a basic, essential truth of the gospel. That everyone of us have sinned. Have fallen short of God’s standard. In other places in the Bible, we learn that not only have we sinned unintentionally, but we have in…
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give me that old time religion
Garrison Keilor once said, speaking of childhood — “I think of it as the olden days, the good old days when life was simple — but it’s just not true.” I think as Christians, we have this same illusion about the glorious past. We think if we could turn the clock back to 1950, everything…
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Working Backwards
And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.” (John 8:28) Bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eyeservice, as men–pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God. (Col 3:22) Have you ever walked…
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