April 28, 2023
by Greg Norfleet
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Category:
Christianity
Have you noticed how the Apostle Paul repeatedly references multiple associates—“fellow workers” and “ministers”—with whom he serves. As Colin Marshall and Tony Payne observe, “Up to 100 names are associated with Paul in the New Testament, of which around 36 could be considered close partners and fellow laborers.” [2] For example, there are Prisca and Aquil...
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March 3, 2023
by Wayne Veenstra
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Category:
Christianity
Spring training tells us that baseball has arrived, but not yet in full. We get a delicious foretaste of what is coming as the sounds and sights of summer break into our winter. Similarly, for Christians, we come to experience the new age we’ve been rescued into as the Holy Spirit resides in us (Eph. 1:13-14)....
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October 6, 2022
by Dale Van Dyke
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Category:
Christianity
In our progressive, post-Christian culture, Christianity is one giant “No” to things our neighbors deem as essential to personal happiness and fulfillment. Promiscuity, homosexuality and transgenderism are not appealing in and of themselves. The appeal is solely rooted in the conviction that they are a “yes” to human freedom and self-determination. And, in the min...
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September 9, 2022
by Greg Norfleet
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Category:
Christianity
| Tags: transformed, mind, Will of God, Bible
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will” (Romans 12:2)
Ponder this pivotal command and promise with me for a moment.
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September 1, 2022
by Dale Van Dyke
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Category:
Christianity
| Tags: Church, prayer, Bride, gratitude, family, saints, gospel
It struck me again this past Sunday that the pastor has the best seat in the house. I wish you could see what I see as I look out over the congregation on a Sunday morning.
What do I see?
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July 15, 2022
by Brennen Winter
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Category:
Christianity
| Tags: Grace, Comfort, guitar, gratitude
One of my favorite videos on YouTube is of Tommy Emmanuel—a personal favorite guitarist—playing his rendition of “Classical Gas.” The original version is difficult as is, but......
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July 8, 2022
by Dale Van Dyke
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Category:
Christianity
| Tags: Heaven, Ecclesiastes, Summer, Change, Eternity
I’m making my way through Ecclesiastes recently in my devotions. It reads like a lament: a man with “eternity in his heart” grieving the fleeting nature of life in this world. How can things matter when nothing lasts?...
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June 2, 2022
by Dale Van Dyke
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Category:
Christianity
| Tags: trust
It was a great plan.
As you know, I was scheduled to speak this past weekend, near Yosemite, for the Family Camp of the Presbytery of Northern California. I spoke there about 10 years ago and greatly enjoyed the people there and I was really looking forward to being with them again.
The plan was to speak on the book of Job. It was hard work trying to capture the...
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May 6, 2022
by Wayne Veenstra
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Category:
Christianity
| Tags: Discipleship, christianity
The work of making disciples of Jesus is not easy. Sharing the good news of Jesus with those who are not Christian is hard for many reasons. We aren’t sure what to say, how to say it, or when to say it. We are afraid of what speaking up will do to relationships we care about. The world despises what we have to say and Satan will do all that he can to thwart and discourag...
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April 29, 2022
by Greg Norfleet
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Category:
Christianity
| Tags: pride, humility
What kind of heart does God revive? “For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: ‘I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite’’” (Isaiah 57:15)....
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