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Lift Up My Eyes

Who do we look to in difficult times? We all endure them. If you haven’t, you will. How do we deal with calamity when it strikes? Or what about disgrace when people rise against us, lording our shame over us? In the Psalms, we see some examples of how to respond. Remember when David committed adultery with Bathsheba and murdered her husband? He messed up big time. What do you think the people around him thought of him? Or years later when he fleeing from Absalom, his son, do you think...

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Behold, He Knocks

I saw a comic strip once – a Christian comic strip, if you can believe that. It opens with the protagonist standing at a fork in the road. To the right is Jesus, floating above the path as His radiance extends softly but evidently from Him. The other path is filled with neon lights, larger than life signs and all manners of worldly things. It’s evident that the choice is Jesus or sin, and the man chooses sin. The next few segments show the man getting deeper into ‘worldly...

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Your Influence Matters

God is at work in a mighty way in our church, in Fort Worth and in our world. You are an integral part of that work. God intentionally and specifically places people in your realm of relationship and in your area of life. You have influence. You have life within you. You have hope within you. And you are surrounded by a world of people hungry to hear and see that life and hope. People you don’t even know are praying for YOU to share the love of Christ with their loved ones. Peter...

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