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Dreams versus contentment

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Are you happy with today, or are you pining for tomorrow? Are you content with this leg of your journey, or are you desperate to reach the mountain’s summit? Sometimes the tension between dreams and contentment can be pretty severe. The Bible clearly tells us that Christianity possesses an unending,…
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Preaching among lions (for pastors and ministry leaders)

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Do you preachers and ministry leaders remember the obscure, 2 Kings 17 story about the priest who was recruited to preach among lions? The story goes like this. The Israelites had been defeated in war and subsequently deported to Assyria; however, when the Assyrians moved into Israel to replace them,…
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Your easiest hour-long prayer time ever!!

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Hi everyone…I was praying for Grace Church in a particular way this morning and I wanted to pass my experience along to you as a potential prayer aid. Some people have no trouble at all praying in concentrated time blocks, such as an hour at a time, but others  find…
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Island of Misfit Toys

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So did you watch “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” this past Christmas? (Do they still show the claymation version each year?) If so, did you feel a certain kinship with Rudolph as he set out to embrace the uniqueness of his bright red nose? And did you feel some deep-seated empathy…