4 Truths to Remember in Times of Tragedies, Trials and Tests

4 Truths to Remember in Times of Tragedies, Trials and Tests by MEG HART for Charisma News There are some who are facing their darkest hours of tragedy, persecution and loss right now. My family and I have recently faced a heart-shattering tragedy when my uncle was brutally murdered on Good Friday. I had already personally faced and persevered the most difficult year of my life, and this tragedy knocked me down flat. As my family and I pick up the pieces of our shattered hearts and literally walk moment…

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3 Questions for Discerning Your Calling

3 Questions for Discerning Your Calling by JORDAN RAYNOR for Relevant Magazine If our work is ever going to be more than a job, we must ask good questions. The renowned British novelist Dorothy Sayers once said that, “Work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker’s faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.” It’s…

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Thinking Clearly, Choosing Wisely: The Concept of God

Thinking Clearly, Choosing Wisely: The Concept of God By Jack Kerwick for Lew Rockwell During a recent conversation with a friend, a fellow Roman Catholic who not only attends church regularly, but who often serves in Mass as both a reader and a Eucharistic minister, she revealed, to my surprise, that her quest for Truth has so far led her to put into question some of the most fundamental of Christian teachings. She is not alone.  Unfortunately, as I have gathered from my own experience as a college philosophy professor—a Christian professor who…

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Fasting

Fasting Luke 5 NKJV 34 And He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? 35 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days.” 36 Then He spoke a parable to them: “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. 37 And no one puts new…

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Breakfast with the Devil, Supper with the Savior (Podcast)

Breakfast with the Devil, Supper with the Savior Podcast by Colin Smith for Unlocking the Bible One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: ‘Aren’t you the Christ? Save yourself and us!’ (Luke 23:39) Here is a man in the last hours of his life. He is completely lost, he is completely helpless, and he is still angry with God. Suffering doesn’t always make people more tender. It can bring out the worst in us. Sometimes pain intensifies a sinner’s hatred towards God. You can feel this man’s hostility…

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8 Ways to Encourage the Flow of the Holy Spirit

8 Ways to Encourage the Flow of the Holy Spirit J. LEE GRADY for Charisma Mag I’m grateful for my friend Quentin Beard, who pastors one of the fastest growing churches in South Dakota—Sioux Falls First Assembly. Because Quentin wants his congregation to experience the Holy Spirit, he scheduled a special weekend of meetings so that people could be baptized in the Holy Spirit, get healing prayer and receive personal prophetic ministry. The day before the event, I asked Quentin if we could have a larger-than-normal bottle of oil on…

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SOUND MONEY: A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE – PART II

SOUND MONEY: A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE – PART II by Claudio Grass Click Here for Part 1 «Because gold is honest money, it is disliked by dishonest men.“ – Ron Paul   The value of silver and gold is given by their own nature Neither gold nor silver has value expressed in other units of account. Their value is expressed directly in their own weights. Everything else that is valuable (other assets, commodities, goods, services, or performed labor) is measured against a certain weight of these metals. In other words, the…

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Winning the Spiritual Victory

Winning the Spiritual Victory by Sam Rohrer for Christian Post Note: This article was originally published on the Christian Post website HERE. When we consider the biblical principles tied to Christian living, do we think about spiritual victory? We should. Victory begins when we believe there is indeed an enemy and a battle. Ephesians 6 says we battle not against flesh and blood but principalities and powers in high places; therefore, we are to put on the whole armor of God. Living victoriously as effective salt and light includes identifying the…

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The Truth About Heaven and Hell, Part 2 (Podcast)

The Truth About Heaven and Hell, Part 2 (Podcast) by Pastor, JD Greear, for Summit Life Death is never a comfortable subject, but in the back of our minds, we all know that death is eventually coming. So, what happens after? Pastor J.D. talks about the two eternal destinations as he concludes our overview of the Bible titled, The Whole Story. MP3 Download / Listen HERE>>>

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