Posted on July 20th, 2010 by Shammah
This series started by looking at Paul’s boldness and his avoidance of flattering speech. All of these attributes come from 1 Thessalonians 2, and they are all the result of one thing: Paul’s focus on and commitment to the Gospel of Christ. Paul never lost sight of the goal: preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ [...]
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Filed under: Church, Gospel, History, Holiness, Modern Doctrines, prayer
Posted on May 10th, 2010 by Shammah
This morning my warehouse manager, Dean, came in to tell me that his mom had just called from Sacramento shouting, "I’m healed, I’m healed." A few weeks ago, a set of shelves (installed by her and her husband) fell off her bathroom wall onto her. As she lay on the floor, seconds later, her sister [...]
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Posted on February 23rd, 2010 by Shammah
This is a response I just sent to someone. There’s nothing personal in it, so I wanted to post this here. I hope there’s something helpful in it: The thing that helped me most with baptism was comparing it to the sinner’s prayer, something I believe Peter does in 1 Peter 3:21. Peter says baptism [...]
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Filed under: Modern Doctrines, prayer
Posted on July 24th, 2009 by Shammah
This is not meant to be a blog about my personal life, but … Yesterday my wife had back surgery for a bulging disk. It was huge; 18 mm, for those that have an idea of what that is. The nerve that exits between her bottom vertebrae and tailbone was completely crushed–flattened out–against the bone [...]
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Filed under: Testimonies, prayer
Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by Shammah
I already wrote a blog this morning. I’m going to write another, anyway. I got a newsletter from Gospel for Asia, and I loved reading their first story. They trained a man named Joseph Rao in India for three years, and then he followed a leading on his heart to an unreached area of Maharashtra [...]
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Posted on February 24th, 2009 by Shammah
Actually, this is an answer to a prayer that wasn’t even prayed. Sometimes he answers before we even call on him. One of the school projects for our Jr. High boys was to build a windmill and learn about power generation and green power in the process. We purchased instructions for building an inexpensive windmill, [...]
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Filed under: Testimonies, prayer
Posted on January 17th, 2009 by Shammah
The comments are turned back on. I found a much better spam filter that I was able to add as a plugin. They had great instructions, so it wasn’t too hard to figure out how to do it. I have a couple recent prayer stories I could add to my prayer answers series, but I [...]
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Filed under: Miscellaneous, prayer
Posted on January 1st, 2009 by Shammah
I visited a local church tonight with three other adults and about 10 of our teenagers. We were only there for about an hour and a half, which was completely filled by the testimony portion of their New Year’s Eve service. There, a man I know a little bit told one of the neatest prayer [...]
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Posted on December 30th, 2008 by Shammah
This is another old story, but it addresses well the fact that there are some people God listens to more than he does others. In case you didn’t know that, it’s true. In fact, it’s very true. As a very young Christian, 26 years ago, I went to my boss, Roger, who was mainly responsible for [...]
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Posted on December 28th, 2008 by Shammah
Here’s another one that got emailed to me. I have some comments at the end about what I like about this one. About ten years ago, while still living at home shortly after graduating from my undergraduate studies. My mother, a very nominal Jew, subscribed to a magazine that was celebrating Abraham Joshual Heschel. I [...]
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