Posted in personal holiness on Sep 2nd, 2015
We all know what it’s like to see another believer do or say something that erodes his or her Christian testimony and, therefore, his or her influence for Christ.
Sadly, we also know that we’ve done the same on more than one occasion.
We can’t undo the past.
But we can do better in the future.
Better lives are […]
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Posted in temptation on Oct 23rd, 2014
It’s so easy to get tangled up in multiple messes of everyday life to the point of distraction from God stuff.
It happens to us all.
Health woes.
Money woes.
Job woes.
Family conflict woes.
Car woes.
Personal morality — or immorality — woes.
Real estate or house repair woes.
The list goes on and on.
So […]
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Posted in personal holiness on Oct 20th, 2014
There are a number of clear, artesian springs in North Central Florida where millions of gallons of pristine water gushes from the Florida aquifer each day.
Many of these have been turned into tourist attractions by the state government with others serving as the magnets for private tourism operations.
They are stunning to behold […]
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Posted in Satan on Aug 12th, 2014
If you believe in the Bible, you believe in Jesus.
And if you believe in Jesus, you’ve got to believe the Devil is real.
That means that spiritual warfare is real since Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy.
If we’re going to survive spiritually in the cosmic conflict between good and evil, between the magnet of God’s […]
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Posted in persecution on Jul 23rd, 2014
Christians being killed in Iraq because of their faith.
The same is happening in Nigeria.
The culprits are hoodlums masquerading as religious zealots ostensibly on a mission to purify their regions of any theology-based threat to their radical, ultra-conservative Islamic belief.
It’s perhaps happening elsewhere and we just haven’t yet heard about it.
Persecution on a non-fatal level is […]
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