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… it can be quite helpful for a more mature member of the church to hear from God on their behalf. This is different … will review what everyone has written to confirm it is safe to pass onto the youth and we will wrap the gift for …
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… the Most High God. Obeying this command would keep them safe in Babylon, but they’d be breaking God’s first … against Babylon. This was the same issue facing the early church in the Roman Empire. We read in Acts that the people …
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… it's so widely used. But for me, it primarily refers to a church that organizes itself around the mission of God, or … sense, how have you seen small groups fit into missional churches, or into communities with a more organic structure? … all love and respect—just get out of the house. It's too safe in our houses. We need to start inhabiting the places …
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… be similar to a library full of other books. But then the church has nothing exciting to believe, and nothing exciting … are vulnerable. Lord, protect our children, keep them safe, and may they prosper. That's the prayer in our hearts. … from God in this way. For isn't it true that many churches also have fallen on hard times? Many congregations …
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… this story? Polycarp was a member and the bishop of the church of Smyrna. This is the second church addressed in the … that were not prosperous, not respected, and not very safe. Each day they had to live by faith. Yes, each day … who stood in the middle of the seven lampstands, the seven churches, when identifying himself with this particular local …
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… to turn to this book because it is Jesus' last word to the church. In chapters 2 and 3 Jesus himself addresses seven churches in Asia Minor (Turkey). The number seven is to be … for me to do so, only in those places where it is safe to do so, and only with those who make it easy to do so. …
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… me to do. There are certain Bible texts that we as a church love to read. And there are certain Bible texts that … that Jesus has done, we, individually and together as a church have the opportunity to go—ourselves—into the very … writer says, is like an anchor for our souls to keep them safe and secure. And this anchor, he goes on to say, goes …
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… the one with the illness, find someone you trust and feel safe with, someone that can transform your experience of the … remembered her. There were no family, no friends, no church family present. How might the family and church family empowered one another to be an abiding …
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… It wasn’t a picnic on a bright sunny day. It was in a church basement. No body else was wearing sunglasses. I was … long term mental illness. With 15 people sitting in a church pew, 3 will experience some form of mental illness in … challenge of mental illness, it is the church. What other safe place is there for people to find encouragement, support …
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… unmentionable. To invite discussion of it, even in the church, is thought to be bad form. Unlike the old churchyards … as people who knew how to ‘die well,’ knew how to walk safely through that ‘valley of the shadow of death.’ Perhaps …
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… state would be better served by restoring all schools to church control” (from The Truth Project by Focus on the … generation and make sure that our children are enrolled in church programs and we may seek out Christian education or we … schools have excellent academic standings, they are safe and orderly environments, and they are places where …
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… figure would come out of the shadows and lead them to a safe place where they would stay a couple of days. There is … people the impression of a sort of potluck supper in some church basement with the disciples all nicely seated at the … has not stopped. It has travelled through the ages of the church's history? We are right, you are wrong. The people of …