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September 15, 2010

Growing Seeds of Faith

A while back I posted about growing my new lawn and how growing seeds of faith takes the right balance of truth and love. Looking at my lawn this morning, I few more thoughts came to me about seeds of faith and how they grow. But...

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September 11, 2010

Legal, Social, and Absolute Tolerance

Much of the day yesterday I contemplated what I would write today, and whether I would relate today’s post in any way to the fact that it is the 9th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. There is much controversy...

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September 5, 2010

An Ambassador for Christ

We heard a great sermon today from our new interim pastor, Pr. Gary Englert, based on 2 Corinthians 5:14-21. For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live...

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September 2, 2010

I Can Handle That Myself

Life can be busy challenging. There is work to accomplish by the end of the week, or the day. There are co-workers to contend with, some helpful and some not so helpful. There are customers to deal with or volunteers to cajole. There are computers...

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August 31, 2010

A Life Worthy of God’s Call

Last night I was reading 2 Thessalonians while waiting for the sleep study technician to come in and hook me up for a good night’s sleep. Actually, it was a terrible night’s sleep full of weird dreams and frequently waking up to find I was...

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August 30, 2010

God Won’t Give Up

Last night I climbed into bed early and picked up my Bible to read. I checked my Bible-in-a-year plan to see what was next on my schedule and found that Psalms 119 was next on the list. My first reaction was, “I just read that....

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August 25, 2010

Full Assurance

I have been thinking a lot lately about the power of the Holy Spirit. Before His death, Jesus promised His disciples, and all believers who have come after them, that He would send the Counselor, the Holy Spirit to dwell in their hearts. John 15:26....

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August 24, 2010

The Kingdom of God Within and Among Us

A friend’s comment on my post yesterday got me thinking about the Kingdom of God. Often when people think about the Kingdom of God they think of Heaven. If they have read and even partially understood the book of Revelation, they might think about the...

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