The Courage to Repent

By Rachael Sales  

How does someone who’s been late and unprepared all of their lives repent into a lifestyle of organization and preparedness? How does the quick-tempered wife and mother repent into a lifestyle of gentleness and patience with her husband and children? How does the drug addict repent into a life of drug free living? Such are the mysteries of mankind and in the silence of such unanswered questions lies evidence of the world’s need for a savior.
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Reverence for God

By Tim Miller  

I think of how most of us view God or approach him in today’s day and age.  I’ve seen t-shirts that say “Jesus is my homeboy”, WWJD bumper stickers and fish decals on the back of cars.  This stuff is all neat, and I’m sure it makes a few bucks for whoever is selling it.  But is this who our God really is?  Is our Lord and creator of the universe really something to stamp on a lunchbox and sell alongside Hannah Montana? Now, I’m not saying we should resort to strict solemnity where God rejects any form of fun or that we should be boring.  But I feel there is a fine line we need to take a look at.
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Never out of His Care

By Pam Kumpe  
 
Have you ever heard the joke about the man who drowned and arrived in Heaven and complained about how God never answered his prayer?

The East Texas version goes like this.

It was flooding in East Texas and the floodwaters were rising. Bubba stood on his porch and a neighbor in a row boat came by. The man in the boat told Bubba to get into his row boat and he would save him.
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Independence from the Inside Out

By Raquel Soto  

Many times we take our freedom from granted. We go about our daily lives without a care in the world, perfectly content in our routine. And then, one day, something hits us out of seemingly nowhere and we find that we have awoken to a different world.

As I was thinking about what I could share with you this month, I was thinking about independence. It’s not enough to be free. It’s staying free that will continue to take some work.

So what do we do to prepare? There are always outside forces wanting to encroach upon the freedom given to us in Christ. How do we prepare ourselves to not only be free from those things in us that would try to hold us from our destiny, but to stay free from those things outside of us? Or, at the very least, get prepared for when life just happens?
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Disappointment: The Christian Killer

By Anthony Ricco  

I had a question this morning that was bothering me, why do people who have seen so much of God’s power and majesty fall back into the World?

I was thinking of Israel – they saw God’s mighty hand so many times.  When Moses was up on Mount Sinai, they could even see Him on there, but when Moses was up there for a while, they built the two golden calves and started to worship them.
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