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God the Genie?

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series PrayerPak: Lessons on Powerful Prayer

While striving to serve God, some will bow down to the god of materialism believing that the modern day “Baal” can bring happiness. They do not enjoy godliness because their carnality strips them of the joy of their salvation. This attitude causes the Christian to constantly pray for an easier life, more wealth, and happiness without suffering. In this prayer, the Christian views God as a genie in a magic lamp. They feel that if they rub their lamp hard enough, long enough, and often enough, they can force God to accomplish their will. Elijah had a word for those of his generation who were “halting between two opinions”… Continue reading

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No Common Act

There is the continual struggle with the thinking that the secular and the sacred are morally and spiritually incompatible, and as we are driven by the necessities of living to be always crossing back and forth from the one to the other, our inner lives tend to break up so that we live a divided instead of unified life.
I?m convinced that it is exactly this that causes unrest in many professing Christians and at the same time drives many a seeker away because of the seeming hypocrisy of it all. I?m also convinced that it is this that keeps many people from experiencing the full depths of a enriching and exciting life that God wants everyone to experience. I choose my words carefully there because life will never be free of pain and the Christian that is fulfilled by there existence on this world has lost sight of the wonder of the world to come ? for friends that is the world that will bring fulfillment.
Here and now, however God would have us experience His presence in a real and tangible way every day. So, are so many of us missing this? Continue reading

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What the World needs now

This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series A Place to Call Home

What the world needs now is a fresh vision of what it means to live in community. A fresh vision of what it means to be the people of God. Continue reading

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One!

This entry is part 1 of 6 in the series A Place to Call Home

Do you know what God’s favorite word is? God’s favorite word is “ONE”! Continue reading

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Jacob: When God Prevails

This entry is part 12 of 15 in the series When the Heroes of Faith speak...

Jacob is man who’s life is proof of the power of God to change us from what we are to fulfilling the potential for what we can be in Christ… Continue reading

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