Tag: Faith
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The Confessions of a Closet Doubter
So what happens to me if can’t find my way clear to believe all of the bible? Who says I have to? And so what, if I don’t? Can I enter into Heaven if I don’t believe in the biblical account of creation? What if I believe in the “six days”, but use Peter’s “thousand…
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Feeling Like A Failure
I must confess: at this moment I feel more like Gideon in the winepress, than David running out to meet Goliath. What happened? Nothing in particular. Just life. But though my flesh is tired, and I’m frustrated with my circumstances, I will not quit fighting the good fight of faith. Though I feel like a…
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Revival Characteristics (Part Two)
Every spiritual awakening, revival, or whatever you’d like to call it, has certain visible characteristics. This is the second message of a three part series. Wells are reclaimed Now the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and they had filled them…
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Everyone Believes Something
Faith is an interesting thing. Everyone has it, though not everyone realizes it. But everyone lives by that which they believe. It’s easier to see it in others than in one’s own life. A person’s faith will grow or shrink; but they’ll always have faith. It may become “NO FAITH”, but it will never be…
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How Well Do You Do At Waiting?
Is suffering for a long time the same as long suffering? Does waiting for an answer to prayer endanger the lives of those near and dear to you? While you’re waiting for God to answer, do you cause others to “suffer” right along with you? If patience is really a virtue, how come we have…
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Major Setback to Peace Process
Major Setback to Peace Process by J. Grace Staff Reporter for Daily Planet The Mideast Peace Process was dealt a major setback today, after Eglon Faht-mahn, king of Moab-Jordan, was brutally murdered by an Israeli terrorist. Ban Ki-moon, current Secretary-General of the United Nations, openly condemned the attack and is meeting with the UN Security…
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Four Questions for Atheists and Agnostics
Calling all atheists and agnostics. May I ask you a question? Okay, maybe four. What do, or who do, you believe in since you don’t believe in God? Is it hard to accept the death of a loved one? Was there ever a time in your life when you believed in God, or in a…
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Easter Up The Hollow
Today, Easter Sunday 2014, was a day to remember. My wife and I, along with her sister, and her sister’s daughter and husband, attended Saint Johannes Lutheran Church in St. Clara, West Virginia. Well, I’m not sure if it’s IN St. Clara, or just close by. Really, it’s “up the holler”, as the locals would…
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Mary Magdalene’s Morning
I got up early, after a fitful sleep. Over and over, throughout the night, my mind replayed the horrible sights and sounds I witnessed a few days earlier. I begin my walk of mourning, to the place where my heart was buried. Jerusalem had been very busy for several days, with the Passover feast and…
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Hell, NO!
“That movie scared the hell out of me!” Oh? “I had a hell of a good time…” Really? “Hell no, I won’t go!” Is that so. It appears to me, though I could be wrong, that the people who talk about hell the most are the folks who don’t believe in it. They tell someone…
Jan Grace 