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2018: A Year for Hope, Speak Life

The Garden Spot of the Soul (AYFH wk 44)

We all hear things from the background of our own understanding and experiences. About 20 years ago, I had a good friend who got ‘turned on’ to the Word of Faith movement. With my (more traditional) church upbringing, so much of what he said sounded ridiculous to me at the time. Like the time he was practically purple with the flu, yet was declaring himself healed and well.
(errr … Buddy … you don’t LOOK healed and well to me!) ….. Continue reading The Garden Spot of the Soul (AYFH wk 44)

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2018: A Year for Hope

2018: A Year For Hope (Week 17)

The sin of stealing a few manila folders from the office supply cabinet ranks way below the sin of embezzlement – but both are thievery. Gluttony vs drug addiction. Venomous words vs physical abuse. Somehow, it all too often ends up that the sins that you and I struggle with fall to the lesser end of the ranking system (downgraded with words like “issues” or “struggles”) while someone else’s sins (that are not a temptation to us and therefore with whom we can’t relate) are ranked higher and are undoubtedly more offensive to God. It should not be so in the church. Continue reading 2018: A Year For Hope (Week 17)

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