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Words to the Wise: Leaving Conflict Behind
When talking about leaving a tough situation with a friend, this wise friend threw out the metaphor of leaving "firing shots over your shoulder".  I really latched onto that picture of a cowboy riding away from a fight on a horse in the old West.  At full gallop, the cowboy would ...

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Easter blog series: Takes 1 to Know 1, Dishing on Church Folk-Judgmental
Having been in church most of my life, I know a lot of "church" people.  I've been lucky though, because I've been able to have a wide array of experience in my life and part of that is knowing a lot of people who aren't "church" people.  It's amazing what people not in church ...

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Easter blog series: Takes 1 to know 1, Dishing on Church Folk-We know everything about the Bible..
Having been in church most of my life, I know a lot of "church" people.  I've been lucky though, because I've been able to have a wide array of experience in my life and part of that is knowing a lot of people who aren't "church" people.  It's amazing what people not in church ...

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Easter blog series: Dishing on Church Folk: Takes 1-2-Know-1:-We're perfect (or think we are).
Having been in church most of my life, I know a lot of "church" people.  I've been lucky though, because I've been able to have a wide array of experience in my life and part of that is knowing a lot of people who aren't "church" people.  It's amazing what people not in church think ...

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Bitterness is a Trap
23 For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin.”  Acts 8:23 (NIV) A note about bitterness:  Bitterness is a trap.  It ruins your perspective, it makes you focus only on yourself.  It creates a false reality, where you are stuck in this look that is ...

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Beyond the Vow...
What are marriages really for? Let's look at this during the month of March and try to discover a hidden reason/purpose that maybe long forgotten, that might just help us reshape our marriages and families for success in the long haul.

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God can use a lot of things in ways you don't realize
Got an email today from Dolly, (MC student ministry assistant/FBC Web Manager) and it was a prayer request that came in online through our online prayer request page on our website (here's the link)...  It was from Serbia.  We'll gladly be praying for them and for what God is doing, but ...

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Christmas thoughts: What you are
13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.Matthew 6:13 (NIV) Christ follower...don't lose what it is that God made you to be to serve the world in ...

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A closer explanation of the translation of John 1:1 issue re: "the Word was A god" vs. "the Word was God"
In John 1:1, is one of the strongest declarations that Jesus is God.  Here is what it says: 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.Some religions who use the Bible as part of their basis have translated that verse incorrectly from the Greek to ...

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The truth about wolves and Proverbs 18
15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears ...

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