I’m a veteran of more conversations than most. As a former pastor with 50 years of constantly talking to people, one of my commitments upon leaving my role as a Senior Pastor was to talk less. It was easy at first because I didn’t have as many people to talk to. But I still found […]
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Finally, dear brothers and sisters, we urge you in the name of the Lord Jesus to live in a way that pleases God, as we have taught you. You live this way already, and we encourage you to do so even more. For you remember what we taught you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
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Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working (James 5:16, ESV). Yesterday in Interruption #1926, I wrote about the importance of confession. A point I made in that blog post was… Confession is a part of
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Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working (James 5:16, ESV). I typed the wrong prompt into an AI search program for this blog post and received this response, “I am just an AI, so I
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And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!” (Revelation 4:8, ESV) When the Apostle John was invited into heaven, what were the
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Reading the writings of Peter and Paul, we get the impression that they knew they would be martyred. Peter writes… I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder, since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ
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Therefore, ridding yourselves of all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls (James 1:21, NASB1995). Up early a few days ago, I was on my back porch for Bible reading and prayer, resulting in a meditation where I speak to God and He speaks to me. Having a porch
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I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek (Romans 1:16, ESV). The word “gospel” in the Greek means “good news.” That’s why the Apostle Paul isn’t ashamed of the gospel, and we shouldn’t be either because it’s
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ (Ephesians 4:15, ESV). There are two central concepts to Christianity — truth and love. Paul writes in Ephesians 4:15 that both are needed “to grow up in every way … into Christ.” For maturity in Christ,
And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death (Revelation 12:11, ESV). The testimony of brothers and sisters who I consider to be great prayer warriors, has been a primary encouragement to my prayer journey. Let’s start our week by
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