I recently realized that most of my prayer life consists of intercession or supplication. According to the prayer acronym ACTS (for adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplication), I am often rushing into God’s presence with my requests without acknowledging His greatness and worth, glossing over confession of my sins, and forgetting to give thanks.
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Our church has a program to help immigrants improve their English skills. We recently began a Bible study for this group. After reading a Bible passage together, we discuss some questions, the first of which is “what words are new to you?” In trying to define a word for the participants, I realized how difficult it is to relay some of the subtleties of meaning, especially with some of the less commonly- used words encountered in Scripture.
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I was visiting my sister recently and we attended her church together. As it happened, they were installing a new pastor the Sunday I was there. The church is a non-denominational church, but just as in the denominational church I belong to, the installation ceremony asked questions of both the pastoral candidate and of […]
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I have friends who work with the JESUS film. If you don’t know about it, in 1979 the film was made based on the Gospel of Luke. Since that time, the film has been translated into 2,227 languages and been shown all over the world, in remote villages and big cities. Through this ministry, over 22 million people have made decisions to follow Jesus.
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The state highway department recently completed revisions to the major artery to which our street connects. The new left turn lanes and smooth paving are a real pleasure. But not a pleasure is the new timing of all the traffic lights along that site. We can wait as long as 2 minutes to get a green light to cross that road or turn onto it from our little street. Two minutes doesn’t seem like a big deal until you’re sitting at the red light with no cross traffic, and you still have to wait.
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I was diagnosed with, and treated for cancer over 10 years ago. After 8 years in remission, my cancer recurred 2 years ago. Following more surgery and 3 different regimens of chemotherapy, my cancer was unaffected. Now it’s time for more aggressive surgery. A friend asked me, “Why you? Why has God allowed this to happen to you?”
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