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Trust your King
From a great chess player of Cincinnati, we learn that in the early part of the last century, an artist who was also a great chess player painted a picture of a chess game. The players were a young man and Satan. The young man manipulated the white pieces; Satan the black pieces. The issue
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Telling the Story: Prayer and the wish book
Way back in the 1900s, there was an amazing, magnificent, almost magical book of wishes. Each year, the Sears, Roebuck, and Company issued a treasured catalog containing all the toys on earth, and it went to Every. Single. Household. Kids young and old anxiously awaited its arrival in the fall. Dolls of every size and
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Seeking approval
“Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.” John 12:42-23 The Pharisees of Jesus’ day should have been the first to
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Freedom ‘for’
Robert Youngs gives this illustration: I have on my table a violin string… it is free. I twist one end of it and it responds. It is free. But it is not free to do what a violin string is supposed to do–produce music. So I take it, fix it in my violin and tighten
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Telling the Story: The ‘Do not be afraids’ of Christmas
It’s hard to let go of Christmas. The “Do not be afraids”are still on my mind. When the angel visited Mary in Nazareth, the words gushed from Gabriel’s mouth: “Do not be afraid…you have found favor with God.” Seeing an angel right in front of her would have been terrifying. Pondering it from this side,
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Allow the word of God to speak to you
The Bible is God’s word. The Bible is the way God speaks to us today. If the Bible is God’s word then we must adhere to every word and read it as if a letter from a dear friend. In fact the Bible is much more important to you than a personal letter from the
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Living on the Other Side of the Lens Part 2
“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.” James 2:26 The life of faith in God is designed to be a thrilling adventure. I know that idea is the polar opposite of the picture that religion has tried to paint down through the centuries and definitely contrary
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The enemy at Christmas
Many moons ago, my beloved was sharing a difficult church situation with his mentor, Dan Garland. Things had been going splendidly…then they were not. Dan Garland is a treasure. He has been a godsend to us. Since our friendship began in 1999, when he served as the KBC Evangelism director, he has shared from his
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What is Christmas to you?
I wonder what Christmas means to a mother who has lost her husband, who must take care of three or four children, working every day, never quite getting everything done, never making ends meet. What does Christmas mean to her? I wonder what Christmas means to the little man in Zimbabwe, 80 years old, living
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Telling the Story: Mary’s Song
Have you ever been so filled with the joy of the Lord, or overcome with appreciation that He has met a secret or public need, or He has saved your bacon AGAIN and you just can’t get over that He still puts up with you or He has pulled you out of a pit or
