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Knowing God’s Will

Knowing God’s Will

Knowing the will of God is a subject often brought up in conversations among Christians.  I am often asked, “How can I know God’s will for my life?”  In one sense it’s a profound question to answer.  On the other hand I believe we often times make knowing God’s will...

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God’s Immutability

God’s Immutability

I don’t know about you, but with the hot temperatures we’ve had the past couple of months I’m ready for fall. And it’s just around the corner! I know we still have over a month to go before fall officially begins, but I rejoice at knowing it’s not far away. Cool...

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Understanding Christianity

Understanding Christianity

There seems to be some confusion in the world today as to what it means to be a Christian. Today, the world defines a Christian as anyone who is not Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, etc. In other words, as long as you are not from a country where one of those...

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A Vapor

A Vapor

Disease, sickness, pandemic, death-- all of this can cause a person to tremble and fear.  It brings about a sense of urgency in our lives even leading many to a very unhealthy sense of panic.  It's hard to comprehend that something invisible like a virus can bring...

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Questions About Divine Judgment

Questions About Divine Judgment

With Covid-19 holding the world’s attention, many questions have surfaced in people’s minds. Most are good, legitimate questions that would otherwise be dismissed as too complicated to answer, too frightening to consider, or in some people’s thinking, too trivial to...

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Plagues, Pandemics and the Church

Plagues, Pandemics and the Church

The spread of the Coronavirus has taken center stage before the entire world over the last few weeks.  We are hearing hourly updates from government and medical sources keeping us abreast as to the threats and dangers of this deadly disease.  It can be so overwhelming...

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Our Sovereign God

Our Sovereign God

We certainly have had a variety of weather conditions so far this year.  We've had mild temperatures followed by lows in the teens and highs only in the 20s.  We've had an abundance of rain followed by a few days of snow.  But in spite of the wide range of...

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In the Year 2020?

In the Year 2020?

Believe it or not another year has passed and we are on the brink of a brand new one.  I can remember when the year 2020 seemed like a distant eternity; a time that needed little acknowledgement because it was so far away.  As a child I often considered the...

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Giving Thanks

Giving Thanks

Thanksgiving is the one day that the nation has set aside to offer thanks and gratitude to our God.  The problem in our religiously pluralistic society is that there have been thousands of gods created in man's own image—none of them resembling the One true God who...

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