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Stories like this about prayer catch my attention and make me consider my own approach to prayer, my faith, and what it means to believe God in prayer. Norman Harrison in His in a Life of Prayer tells how Charles Inglis, while making the voyage to America a number of years ago, learned from the …
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But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. (Luke 6:35-36) But I tell you, love your enemies and …
Without a doubt, ministry is busy, demanding and people intensive. In this sort of work it is easy to get drained out and worn down by what we do. But leaders, we need to get away. Take a look at the life of Jesus. He was no exception to this. His life was busy. In …
Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind, for he breaks down gates of bronze and cuts through bars of iron. (Psalm 107:15-16) Do we believe God can break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron? Do we believe God can do things …
My heart is not proud, Lord, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me. But I have calmed and quieted myself, I am like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child I am content. Israel, put your hope in the Lord …
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Matthew Erickson 