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Rising to the Challenge: A Bold Response to Our Urgent Message
URGENT: We Need Your Help to Take the Next Step on Our Training Center Journey!
Will You Join Us In These Initiatives And Be A Part Of What God Does?
Healing Wounds From Your Past: You Can Learn How to Walk in Victory
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been affected by any level of stress, pain, and heartache. Keep your hand raised if any of that pain and heartache occurred in childhood. I can’t see you, but I’m guessing the majority of people reading this would have their hands...
The Devil is waiting for us to give him an opportunity to pounce!
Most of us are just sitting ducks. One of the scariest verses in all of Scripture to me is Luke 4:12. It talks about how Satan waits for an “opportune time” to test, tempt, and trip us up. He just pulls up a chair and waits. He’s got his spiritual gun pointed and...
Your Will Be Done: Finding freedom through a genuine focus in prayer.
The posture behind ‘God willing’ Jesus taught us how to pray and in Luke 22:42 Jesus said, “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” If we’re being honest, how often is our heart posture in prayer “NOT my will, but yours...
How to persevere and honor God in the midst of suffering: Part 1
Why do we suffer? Have you ever had a time in your life that was really hard and painful? If you live on this earth, then your answer is probably YES. No matter one’s personality, ethnicity, culture, family dynamics, religion, or socioeconomic status, we ALL have...
Make Every Effort to Keep the Unity of the Spirit.
THE NECESSITY OF UNITY “In necessary things unity; in uncertain things liberty; in all things charity” – Marco Antonio de Dominis, 1617 Humans like their tribes. We feel safe, accepted, and have a sense of belonging when we know who is on our team. This has never been...
A Spiritual Kick in the Pants is What We All Need From Time to Time!
Beware of basking in self-satisfaction Self-satisfaction is downright dangerous, and yet we’re all prone to it. We can get to feeling spiritually self-content, believing that since we’re a “good enough” Christian for most churches, God is satisfied with our “good...
Submission, Forgiveness, and the Law of the Harvest
How Chasing the “Perfect Quiet Time” Backfires
THINK OF THE BIBLE AS FOOD I love how C. S. Lewis said it: “God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the...