July 2024
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Someone once said, “People often spend money they don’t have to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like.” The love of money often brings out the worst in people as it is the root of all kinds of evil (1 Timothy 6:10). That Scripture goes on to say, “Some people, eager
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Has the Lord ever asked you to do something? If it’s something big or for a lifetime, it could be considered a “calling”. I remember when the Lord called me to be a pastor. I was 15, and I’ll never forget that experience. It shaped my thoughts and actions just as much as salvation. I
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Ever feel like the Lord is far away? Ever feel forsaken? I know how to fix that. I was in the Word this morning and read this, “One thing I ASK from the Lord, this only do I SEEK: that I may DWELL in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
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If there’s one thing I’ve learned about kids it is they make messes. However, that’s life! I’d rather have kids and the messiness that accompanies them than a perfect house without them! Oh, I make some, too! Sometimes those messes are little. Sometimes those messes are big. My wife and I are constantly saying things
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Even in a tight spot, we must not fear and trust the Lord because He is our refuge and strength (Psalm 46:1). When we are surrounded by the enemy, we must be still and know that He is God (v. 10). That’s the theme of worship and thankfulness as Psalm 46 commemorates how God gave
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I recall a divine appointment at the gas pump. I pulled in between two buses: a prison bus facing one direction and a Christian college bus facing the other. I thought, “this is the tale of two busses”. As I pumped gas I thought about choices. We all have to make them. Some choose wisely
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When I was in Haiti, I watched as a family was digging a trench for their new home’s foundation. They used huge rocks they found to create the footers to bear the weight of the foundation and walls and keep them from settling. When I built my house, I poured 18″x24″ concrete footers reinforced with
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Perhaps this is a question to which you’ve never given much thought. Maybe this causes you to think even further back to the beginning of time: what color were Adam and Eve? For them, there’s no way to biblically support your answer, whatever guess you make. But what about Jesus? Try this: close your eyes
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I remember the first time I dunked a basketball. I was in the 7th grade, and I thought I was something special. The trouble was, it wasn’t on a 10′ regulation height basketball goal. I had lowered the goal at a friend’s house to about 8.5′. You would have thought I was Michael Jordan that
stephen R Harrison 