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This One Thing Will Improve Your Prayer Life

Do you wake up exhausted from tossing and turning all night? The day greets you with dread because of all the things you must do, and you’ve got to figure out how to fit all the other things around it. You turn on the news. Big mistake! The world outside is as chaotic as your own personal world.
What’s wrong with this picture?

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As the World Shakes

Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.
(Hebrews 12:27-28 NKJV)
I recall my mom and I watching her favorite soap opera, As the World Turns, on hot summer afternoons. As the intro music began, the globe came onto the television screen spinning. On the last episode, Dr. Bob Hughes spun the globe on his desk as he left his office for the final time.
For the last eighteen months, the entire world has been shaken. I agree with great theologians that God has released judgement. Not just on the world, but judgement upon the church.

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Closing the Distance with the Prodigal

Over thirty days have passed, and no word from my daughter. I should be accustomed to this by now. She always pulls away when her life takes a wrong turn.
Sometimes, I think God shields me from something I don’t need to know and can’t fix. I’m learning that when she becomes distant, I can go to God, the one who knows all things. He knows where she is. He knows how she is, and my prayers are no less effective because I can’t pray specifically. God has probably rescued her a dozen times that I will never know about and that’s amazing.

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What is Faith

  Welcome to the first episode of the Walk on Water Show. I've been slowed down by one thing or another, but today is finally launch day for my...

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