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We Are Weak Yet Strong in Jesus
Last weekend we attended a fall festival with one of our daughters and her three sons at a shopping mall. The event culminated with a costume contest. All three of our grandsons entered the competition. Each one of them looked great, with the older boys decked out as Spiderman and a pirate respectively. However, it
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Spiritual Practices: More than an Obligation
Several times recently I have heard one of those advertisements on the radio that concludes with someone rapidly reciting some kind of legal statement or disclaimer. You have probably heard them at times on either TV or the radio. The spokesperson talks so fast that you can’t make out anything that is being said. The
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There Are Still Hostages to Be Freed
As I write this, many of us are celebrating the release of Israeli hostages after a two-year ordeal. Over the course of that period of time, it may have been easy for some of us to go about our lives as usual with limited thought given to the situation of those people. We might have
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Let God Do a Deeper Cleaning in You
Last weekend one of my daughters had some workers coming over to her house to do what she described as a “deep cleaning”. They would be going beyond the regular housekeeping chores to perform a more extensive job of ridding the premises of any impurities, even in the hard-to-reach crevices or the oft-neglected recesses of
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Let’s Be Honest with God
In our small congregation, we often offer the opportunity at one point in the worship service for individuals to share a word of testimony, an answer to prayer, or a prayer request. On a recent Sunday one of our regular attendees had her grandsons with her, as she was taking care of them while their
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Tony Elder, Author/Pastor 