One of the inevitable things in life is that people do and seemingly will always do crazy stuff. And unfortunately the craziness will often affect your life. If people would go privately mad and leave you out of it you may not mind quite so much right? Problem is those people going mad are your […]
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It still bothers me. It still bothers me to read the account of the passion of Christ. 20 years and more of living for Christ, having read the Bible over time and time again, I still cannot read the story of the crucifixion of Jesus without being deeply affected by it. It can never be
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There is a lethal weapon in the mouth of the sheep wielded with much relish by some; it is the accusation that a church lacks love. Many a pastor lives on an emotional roller coaster and goes on endless guilt trips at the dreaded mention of lovelessness. Mary Rearick Paul in an insightful article on
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Someone said to me yesterday ‘I love our church, the anointing, the presence of God, the atmosphere is so free….’ And that is church, believers gathered together in the ‘presence’ of God, worshipping Him in joy and freedom. Many years ago, I walked into a church building in another country and was overwhelmed with the
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The apostles were wise men. But they did not always start out wise. They started out doing everything in the ministry, then they woke up to the fact that choices had to be made. So they decided that they could not leave aside the word of God to wait on tables, and they delegated that
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God is not a beggar, begging us for our attention and our service. Our problem is we do not realize that we owe Him; we are consumed with a sense of entitlement. We live convinced that everything is supposed to be to our convenience, we are the heroes of our own story, yet we live
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