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What next?

At some point, we all ask the question, what do I do now?  Everything we know to do, everything we believe to be right disintegrates before our eyes.  At the end of all we can do, all that is left is to surrender our self-sufficiency and beg for direction.  Can ...

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Prayer and Fasting

Man is so smart. We take it upon ourselves to fix everything broken: faucets, cars, toys, economies. But what happens when we come up against a situation we cannot fix; something that, despite our best human efforts, we cannot repair? Marriages go through fires. Finances come under attack. Children stray ...

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They Were Written in Your Book…

“…all the days (of my life) were written before ever they took shape, when as yet there was none of them.” ( Psalm 139:16) You know every day that each one of us has on this earth. Your eyes have seen every dream, every hope, all our pain and sorrow, ...

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Is Indulging in Alcohol Really that Bad?

I think everyone can agree that alcoholism is a serious addiction and that it ruins lives.  “According to the National Health Interview Survey more than 50% of the population aged 18 or older uses alcohol as a stimulant/depressant. That doesn’t mean they are all alcoholics, but the social trend is that more ...

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Into The Trash It Went

This summer I heard a true story of a mother telling her daughter directly after receiving her soccer award, to go and throw it in the trash.  Now, before you jump to any misjudgments, hear the woman’s story out.  The daughter was on a losing soccer team.  No wins.  Only ...

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