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Monthly Archives: September 2019
Our Spiritual Heritage
When I was a senior in high school, I played the part of Captain Hook in the senior class skit for our Homecoming Pep Rally. Of course the audience booed when I entered, in the tradition of melodramas, because I was, after all, the bad guy. I had a mustache taped to my face and I made the red jacket with shiny gold buttons myself. My mother is the one who taught me to sew and, in…..
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Battle-Ready Promises
In John 16:33 Jesus states, “These things I have spoken unto you that in me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.” What a delight it is to know that God’s promises are not just hot air. God gave them to us and He will accomplish them in our lives through our faith.
There are many promises throughout Scripture, both in the Old and…..
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When You Pray The Word
Do you remember this fabled prayer form? “Now I lay me down to sleep; I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray my soul to heaven He’ll take…God bless mommy and daddy, brother and sister, Uncle Henry and Aunt Matilda.” I don’t remember using the first part of this child’s prayer when I was a child, but I do remember praying the meaningless piffle of the…..
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Clean Hands
When you pray, do you ever feel like the echo of your own voice is the only response? There are several factors that can hinder our prayers like this, two of which are sin and spiritual warfare.
Psalm 24:3-4 designates the conditions of holiness by which we are able to enter God’s presence in prayer: “Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? Or who shall stand in His holy place? He that has clean hands, and a…..