Links for your weekend reading
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Trevin’s Seven
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Seeing Safe Places
Last week, I was in Ecuador with Compassion International. At the church Compassion partners with outside of Riobamba, Ecuador, we sat on wooden benches in a huge church building, surrounded by […]
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5 Radars Every Preacher Needs – #5
This is the last of our five radars we should be prayerfully collecting as preachers. They are early warning systems that will make us better preachers. There are probably many more, but hopefully these five will prompt us to pray and help us to grow. So far we’ve thought about an OT radar, a hissing radar, a resistance […]![]()
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Share // Five Minute Friday
// Share// My kids don’t like to share. Even the teens, they hold on for dear life to what they feel entitled to, to what has been told is theirs. My life is much like that these days. I hold on to so many things. I hold them close to my heart, not wanting to […]
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Human composting: ashes to ashes, dust to dust?
A discussion on green burial recently led a friend to send me a news item on human...
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Jan 23, Fianancial blessing
Please pray that the lord will help me with a financial blessing. My grandaughter is getting married soo and I would like to help her with her wedding.
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Jan 23, Removing Blocks and Obstacles
Saint Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, please swiftly intercede on my behalf with the help of God by removing all obstacles and blocks that
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Jan 23, Prayer to bring back my child and my girl friend
I have been in a serious relationship since 2011 in which we did love each other seriously. But my girl for reasons unknown to me just started to act up
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Jan 23, get the boy I like back
Dear Heavenly Father I come to u as your daughter in the moment of my weakness , Lord this guy that I really like really has been ignoring me and I just
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Jan 23, Prayer for a strong and meaningful relationship
Dear Lord, I offer my prayer to you, for a strong loving relationship with my man. Of late, he seemed to have withdrawn the love he had for me. Lord, I
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King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is dead
Categories: Middle East Tags: obituary, Saudi Arabia Originally published in The Jerusalem Post King Abdullah ibn Abdilazīz of Saudi Arabia, known in the kingdom as the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, has died at an estimated age of 91. The cause of his death was not […] |
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Links for 2015-01-22 [del.icio.us]
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Ephesians 6:10-11 – The Whole Armor: Warriors Of The Faith
This is post #1 of 1 in the series “Ephesians 6: The Whole Armor” Daily Devotional Bible Verse Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. (Ephesians 6:10-11 ESV) Jesus […]
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Why You Fear Intimacy
It took me 42 years to get married. It took me that long to risk being myself with a woman, to risk being known. Before that, I was convinced if anybody really knew me they wouldn’t love me. So rather than being myself, I acted like somebody who I thought people would like. I played a role. And it almost cost me my soul. And my life.
Why You Fear Intimacy is a post from: Storyline Blog
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God’s Voice: An Exploration of Vocation, Part 2
Continued from yesterday. While many desires prompt goodness, others trigger evil and thus can’t be signs of our vocation to love. Ignatius called these desires disordered, meaning that a God-given longing—a holy desire—has become perverted. If you’re a contestant on American Idol, you may have the holy desires to uplift your fans through your singing [Read More...]
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Mummy mask papyrus may reveal oldest-known Gospel
Categories: Middle East, United States Tags: archeology, Bible Originally published in Fox News A team of researchers made a surprising find when examining a papyrus-wrapped mummy mask — they found what they believe to be the oldest-known copy of a gospel in existence. The researchers found a fragment […] |
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Obama says saving pastor from Iranian prison is ‘top priority’
Categories: Middle East, United States Tags: Christian persecution Originally published in Christianity Today United States President Barack Obama met Naghmeh Abedini, wife of an imprisoned American pastor in Iran, on Thursday and told her that freeing her husband is a top priority. Obama took the time to meet […] |
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Charlie Hebdo violence in Niger has destroyed at least 70 churches – report
Categories: Africa News Tags: Christian persecution, Islamists, jihadists Originally published in Christianity Today Christians in the Niger are still reeling from the destruction of more than 70 churches over the weekend as Muslims angry from the Charlie Hebdo cartoons attacked these places of worship. According to the World […] |
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Tens of thousands March for Life in Washington as GOP sends mixed abortion message
Categories: United States Originally published in The Christian Post Tens of thousands of people from across the United States and abroad gathered at National Mall for the annual March for Life. The large gathering calling for the advancement of the pro-life cause in […] |
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Our authority from our Father. Day twelve...
Wanting What God Wants. Day twelve...
For most of my life as a kid, I remember Francis helping us out on the farm. He was my father's employee, but because he was treated so much like one of the family, I just thought of him as “Francis.”
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