We have set aside every Tuesday as a day of prayer for our National leaders: President Obama, the Senate and the Congress. Each week we present a specific focus, birthed from Scripture, that we can agree and pray together. This week we pray that: Our National Leaders will do all things without complaining and disputing,...
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Controlling or Self-Controled?
I love routine. I like to know what to expect, like to have time to plan for it and believe that I function best without any surprises. Because I have been a stay at home dad it seems that I have instilled this same thirst for routine into my boys. It is easy to see...
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Day of Prayer for National Leaders
We have set aside every Tuesday as a day of prayer for our National leaders: President Obama, the Senate and the Congress. Each week we present a specific focus, birthed from Scripture, that we can agree and pray together. This week we pray that: Our National Leaders will say, whenever we are afraid, we will...
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Moment by Moment
Life is simply, in it’s most reduced form the sum of many moments. Each moment is different and yet each moment is ordered and held in the hands of God. There are moments of weakness and moments of strength; moments of unsurety and moments of clarity; moments of failure and moments of victory and there...
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Day of Prayer for National Leaders
We have set aside every Tuesday as a day of prayer for our National leaders: President Obama, the Senate and the Congress. Each week we present a specific focus, birthed from Scripture, that we can agree and pray together. This week we pray that: All the ways of a man are pure in his own...
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Fasting to Become the Possession of Christ DAY 10
Day 10 Giving God Possession of Our Future II Timothy 1:12 “For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.” We have lived much of our...
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Fasting to Become the Possession of Christ DAY 9
Day 9 Giving God Possession of Our Judgment and Pride James 2:13 “For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.” I Peter 5:5 “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Our minds have justified our own sin by focusing on that of others....
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Fasting to Become the Possession of Christ DAY 8
Day 8 Giving God Possession of Our Guilt and Shame (Past) John 8:36 “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” Guilt and shame are the tools of the enemy. If we are ashamed we will hide from God. Adam and Eve hid from God after they sinned because they were...
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Comforted or Comfortable?
As a pastor I get invited into some of the most personal and intimate times in people’s lives. Pastors officiate weddings, dedicate children, bless new seasons and opportunities, give eulogies and help with funeral plans and lend an ear, a shoulder, a laugh, a tear or whatever might be called for in any given moment....
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Fasting to Become the Possesion of Christ DAY 7
Day 7 Giving God Possession of Our Fear and Anxiety II Timothy 1:7 “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” Philippians 4:5b-6a “The Lord is near. Be anxious for nothing.” Our culture has become paralyzed by fear and anxiety. Our enemy...