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  • Finding Grace

    Finding Grace

    Preston Sprinkle wrote a book called Charis – God’s Scandalous Grace for Us.  Charis is the Greek word that means Grace.  Sprinkle uses this book to both define grace, and to show what grace is. I am listing a few excerpts from this book to lay a foundation for the topic of GRACE. “Grace works

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  • Longing for Heaven

    Longing for Heaven

    Oh, how I long for heaven in a place called earth Where every son and daughter will know their worth Where all the streets resound with thunderous joy Oh how I long for heaven in a place called earth ~ Jon Foreman Jon Foreman and Lauren Daigle wrote a song called A Place Called Earth,

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  • Hate the Sinner, Pt. 2

    Hate the Sinner, Pt. 2

    I realize that my last post created some confusion.  I got some feedback asking me if I meant the title to be Love the Sin, Hate the Sinner, or if I inadvertently transposed Love and Hate?  Just to clear it up, that title is exactly what I wanted to say.  I did begin the post

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  • Love the Sin, Hate the Sinner

    Love the Sin, Hate the Sinner

    All my life, I have been told that as Christians, we “Hate the sin, but love the sinner.”  This philosophy comes from the idea that Jesus was always against the sin but had a tremendous love for the sinner.  It tells us that no matter what anyone has ever done, Christ still loves them.  As

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  • The Overcomers

    The Overcomers

    John’s letter to the seven churches of Asia is known as Revelation.  Within this letter, he includes a message for each church.  Within each of these messages, he includes the phrase, “Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what he is saying to the churches.” (NLT) This phrase indicates that

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  • The Lukewarm Church

    The Lukewarm Church

    To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Origin of the creation of God, says this: “I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I

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