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Jun 2021
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor and theologian. He was also part of the anti-Nazi resistance and died by hanging as a POW at the age of 39. He had a rich spiritual life and was a prolific writer. He believed there were some specific things each Christian needed to do to maintain their relationship with God and enjoy God’s peace: to take time each day for reading and meditation on Scripture, spend time in prayer and to allow God to intercede. Bonhoeffer also believed that faith is not to be taken......
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Keep Being WEIRD
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:21) Ken Kuhn, our Church Council president, pointed me to a concern that’s been on my mind ever since. As we’ve trudged...
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Trust Yourself…
In the book of Galatians, chapter 3 we read that those who have faith are children of Abraham. Of course to the early believers in Galatia, obeying the Old Testament law was part of...
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Follow Me
While they were going, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests everything that had happened. 12 After the priests had assembled with the elders, they devised a plan...
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Train Up A Child
Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should go; and even when he is old, he will not depart from it.” What does it mean to “train up a child...
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Everything Has Become New
So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and...
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Trust In The Lord
Can you think of a time when you reacted poorly to an inconvenient situation? Maybe it was while you were in the car after having a tire go flat, or in a traffic jam...
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Our Identity In Christ
For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. (1 Corinthians 12:13) It comes out of nowhere...
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Not By Might But Spirit
Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. (Zechariah 4:6b) When the above words were spoken, the children of Israel were a conquered people. They were under...
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Taking Time to Pray
Have you taken the time to pray today? I can just hear some of the thoughts going through the air right now. “Pastor Scott, are you crazy, we’ve been praying like crazy” or “Of...
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