Prayer Answers 6

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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Kicking Over Sacred Cows: The Desperate Need for Change in Evangelical Christianity

If this is your first trip to my blog in the last 24 hours or in the last few days, don’t forget to scroll down past this article and see the ones on answers to prayer. They are encouraging and uplifting. However, I really want to write this even though I’m in the midst of [...]

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Prayer Answers #5

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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Answers to Prayer, Part 4

Today I had to ransack my memory all the way back to, uh, today. My wife’s had sciatica off and on for a couple of years. She’s been seeing a chiropractor in Memphis, and for a while that was helping. I happen to believe that most cases of sciatica (nerve pain down the leg) are [...]

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Prayer Answers 3

Well, my memory’s starting to kick in, so today it was much harder to decide what to put in here. I got an email from Britt, too, telling me a couple. I’ll give you one of his today, and a short one from me. #1   What’s funny is the one I’m going to tell is [...]

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Prayer Answers #2

My story today is old, but it’s one of my favorites, so I want to tell it. Tomorrow I’m going to ask the wife to remind me of some more recent ones. There’s so many that they don’t stand out as awe-inspiring any more. It’s funny, I’ve been in arguments with atheists (and even one [...]

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Answers to Prayer

I want to do a series of posts on answers to prayer. I heard a neat one on the radio yesterday that I’ll start with. I have disabled comments, but you can email me with the link to the left. I am looking for more prayer stories to post, but please limit it to stories [...]

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A Growth that Comes from God: What Every Joint Supplies

In both Ephesians 4:16 and Colossians 2:19 Paul says that the church grows from “what every joint supplies.” Have you ever thought about what that’s saying? Paul likes to use the human body as an illustration of the body of Christ. He spends a whole chapter on it in the first letter to the Corinthians, [...]

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Basics of the Faith

There are two central things that Rose Creek Village believes. One, a disciple is to follow Jesus Christ with all his heart, mind, soul, and strengh, and two, he is to follow Christ in perfect unity with all others who follow Christ. The Scriptures say, “Follow righteousness, faith, love, and peace along with those who [...]

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Fullness of Joy

In your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures foreveremore. ~Ps. 16:11 I don’t know how much there is to say here, but I do wonder how many of us believe this. Do we really believe that the fullness of joy is in his presence? Do we really believe there are [...]

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