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A Puppet, or Your Sovereign Prince?
One day in one of the villages there was a man covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus he fell down before him in prayer and said, “If you want to, you can cleanse me.” –Luke 5:12, The Message This …...
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Someday, We Will Wear White
by Robert Murray McCheyne As long as you live in your mortal body, you will be faulty in yourself. It is a soul-ruining error to believe anything else. Oh, if ye would be wise, be often looking beneath...
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When You Need to Cover Nakedness
“And don’t build an altar that requires steps; you might expose yourself when you climb up”. Exodus 20:26 While I lived in the SOS Ministry house in the Mission District of San Francisco a dear brother...
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The Rigidity of Evil
Today I realized that I was sick and very tired of myself. It’s really not disgust, or even loathing. It’s more like a weariness, an exhaustion. I’ve never felt this way. In a strange way it intrigues...
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The Modern Tax-Collector
Luke 18:9-14, ESV He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and...
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The Art of Begging
Jesus looked at his followers and said, “You people who are poor are blessed, because the kingdom of God belongs to you”. Luke 6:20, NCV It is an astonishing thing, to have Jesus look at you....
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We Have Nothing, Unless He Gives It
“To the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.” Ephesians 1:6 “We’re all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.” -Bo...
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A Stranger to Your Holiness
Below are the lyrics to a CCM song that I listened to over and over, circa 1982-83. The album is Steve Camp‘s, “Shake Me to Wake Me“, and there are several songs of reasonable significance on it....
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Someday Soon, We Will Wear White
by Robert Murray McCheyne As long as you live in your mortal body, you will be faulty in yourself. It is a soul-ruining error to believe anything else. Oh, if ye would be wise, be often looking beneath...
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Psalm 40, The Pit
I waited patiently for the Lord to help me, and he turned to me and heard my cry. 2 He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and...
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Bethesda, 31 A.D.
“Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days. 2 Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches. 3 Crowds of sick people—blind, lame,...
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Good Hygiene
”Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,” Isaiah 1:16, ESV ”Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he...
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Jesus looked at his followers and said, “You people who are poor are blessed, because the kingdom of God belongs to you”. Luke 6:20, NCV It is an astonishing thing, to have Jesus look at you....
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Today I realized that I was sick and very tired of myself. It’s really not disgust, or even loathing. It’s more like a weariness, an exhaustion. I’ve never felt this way. In a strange way it intrigues...
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Toxic Shame
“My disgrace is before me all day long,and shame has covered my face.” Psalm 44:15 Some years ago while in prayer I saw something. There was a white marble fountain situated in a gorgeous courtyard....
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Touch Jesus Now
A woman suffering from bleeding for twelve years, who had spent all she had on doctors and yet could not be healed by any, approached from behind and touched the end of his robe. Instantly her...
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Do We Want a Facelift, or a Heart Transplant?
“The church is not a select circle of the immaculate, but a home where the outcast may come in.” “It is not a palace with gate attendants and challenging sentinels along the entrance ways holding off...
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Toxic Shame
“My disgrace is before me all day long,and shame has covered my face.” Psalm 44:15 Some years ago while in prayer I saw something. There was a marble fountain abandoned in a gorgeous courtyard. It was...
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