Today's Devotions

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Showcase: Assorted Treats

  • Everyday Tasks: The Two Marys at the Gravesite +

    Everyday Tasks Read More
  • Washing Feet Devotional +

    Scripture John 13 13 It was just before the Passover Festival. Read More
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Audio & Video

Trust: The Key to Perseverance: the film Legend of the Guardian

Legend_Of_The_Guardians_2010Whether flashy or humdrum, evil has the propensity to discourage us, to deter us from following the direction of Christ's Spirit. Steadfastness is only possible if we keep our mind rooted and grounded in His truth, and persevere with the strength of his love and the encouragement of his presence.

Legend of the Guardian provides wonderful examples of the what can happen when we don't believe the lie of evil.

Read more: Trust: The Key to Perseverance: the film Legend of the Guardian

Avoiding Casualties: A sermon by Jim Hugerich

tipi2Spiritual warfare is something that few Christians, regardless of their denomination, are accustomed to thinking about, let alone engaging in. It is as if Satan disappeared shortly after Christ rose from the dead. But, the same Satan, the identical evil that was in the garden of Eden and tempted Christ in the desert is alive and well. Greater is he who is in us than he who is in the world is true, but Paul did not exhort the church at Ephesus to put on the whole armor of God to protect them against the Romans. Jim Hugerich’s sermon provides an excellent description of what spiritual warfare is and how we can avoid becoming one of its casualties. Below is an outline for Jim’s sermon.

http://sermons.biblechurch.org/2010_08_01.final.mp3

 

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Even What They Have Will Be Taken Away: the movie Inception

inceptionWhen one considers the carnage wrought by us since our creation, the term humankind becomes a darkly bitter wordplay for beings made in God’s image, gifted with the possibility of a relationship with the Lord God Almighty, the epitome of love. The destruction, often from our struggles to subjugate others, invariably results in the diminution, if not eradication, of their will. Our weaponry for accomplishing this has transitioned from the crudeness of the odd rock or sharpened stick into the subtle terror of the neutron bomb, a weapon inflicting little damage to the surrounding physical landscape even as it deletes all living creatures through lethal emission of radiation.

Inception centers on the more subtle yet similarly soul-destroying weapon of inserting an idea in another’s dream state, providing the planters powers of predestination within an otherwise normal, spontaneously responding individual. In effect, inception empties a person of his or her ability to independently choose rather than emptying a building of the people in it.

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Reflections to Consider

  • Balance

    In writing about Spirit Filled Spirituality Boa discusses Walking in the Power of the Spirit, Gifts of the Spirit, and Read More
  • Soul Farmers

    Worshipping God in spirit and truth begins with a willingness to participate with God’s spirit in changing who we are. Read More
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Publications

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Music

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Audio & Video

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Favorites

  • Best of EM Bounds on Prayer +

    This is a compilation of some of the writings by E.M. Bounds. I've read a fair amount of books on Read More
  • Prayer - Does it Make Any Difference, Philip Yancey +

    Contemporary classic that probes the meaning of prayer for 21st century believers, and provides extended, personal anecdotes from a wide Read More
  • Prayer, Ole Hallesby and Clarence J. Carlsen +

    This is a little known work which has a significant impact on those who read it. Read More
  • From Unceasing Thinking to Unceasing Prayer +

    Our minds are always active. We analyze, reflect, daydream, or dream. There is not a moment during the day or Read More
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Hidden Blessings

  • Introduction to The Death of Death..by JI Packer +

    INTRODUCTORY ESSAY ___ to John Owen's The Death Of Death in the Death of Christ ___ By J.I. Packer _________ Read More
  • An Interview with Os Guiness on the 25th Anniversary of Francis Schaeffer's Death-Justin Taylor, 2009 +

    Next week (May 15) will be the 25th anniversary of the death of Francis Schaeffer, who died in his home Read More
  • Fate Worse than Death? Julie Moore +

    Jephthah's unfortunatedaughterMy journey through the Bible, which, I'll admit, sometimes feels like a slog, uncovers some pretty crazy things. Read More
  • DEATH HAS BEEN SWALLOWED UP BY DEATH by Gavin Ortlund +

    Editors' note: This series explores key doctrines of the Christian faith and their practical ramifications for everyday life. Earlier in Read More
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