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The Practice of Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving week, Church! I pray that your heart is full of thanksgiving and your words are praises today. This is the day. Today is the day that the Lord has made and given to us. We rejoice in that gift. We do not know what the day holds, but we know that we are held in the arms of God.   Thankfulness can sometimes be a tough subject to navigate, though. It does not always come as easy as we...

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Praying for Monica

“Open my eyes, that I may behold  wondrous things out of your law.  I am a sojourner on the earth;  hide not your commandments from me!” Psalm 119: 18-19 (ESV)  To sojourn is to stay somewhere temporarily. It is being somewhere on purpose yet knowing that place is not the final destination. The Psalmist says here that his sojourn is on the earth. All of the earth, the Psalm teaches, is...

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The Greatest Issues of Our Time

What are the greatest issues of our time? With election season upon us, questions such as this are common to hear and think about. Polls show typical answers to be healthcare, safety, personal freedoms and liberties, breakdown of the family unit, hunger, job security and extremism - to name a few. We see inequality in our communities and disparities in how we are treated based on our socioeconomic status, the...

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