Who is like You, O God? You Who pick up the fallen, restore the broken and remember the forgotten. You Who honor the prisoner and wash his wounds and clean the blood from his hands and heart. You Who determine the fate of the powerful who rail against You for they have determined that they…
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Right off of the coast of Scotland are a series of rugged islands populated by people who are as rugged as the land they inhabit. It has a natural beauty to it, invoking memories of ages past. The winds blow cold through the islands year-round and the people have learned how to survive and thrive…
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They who gossip about God… We’ve all felt it. The sting of someone talking about us behind our backs. It hurts. It wounds and it takes a while to heal. Gossip often involves spreading a lie at the expense of someone else’s reputation, and to make matters worse, they aren’t there to defend themselves. We’ve…
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“The stories of revivals form the true history of the church and to observe the means and instruments by which God has carried out His work cannot fail to be profitable and quickening…” Scottish preacher, Horatius Bonar, witness to the revivals in Scotland between 1839-42. As I write these words, I have to admit I’m…
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I am amazed at Your consuming fire. I am amazed at how You reveal the truth of our failings. I am amazed at how You restore us from failure to life! I am amazed at how You value the small things. I am amazed at how You come to restore justice and peace.
A revival of true faith in the world will contribute to justice. When we call out to God to revive us again, He has a way of cutting through the things that layer our lives with confusion, loss of relationship with Him and others and pain.
We have to be healed from our crutches… Take a minute today and go through your posts and your friends posts on social media. The election has thrown everyone into a topsy-turvy mode, and people are, in fact, losing it. All over I’m seeing people who are attempting to digest the reality that their candidate…
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This year has been a wild year. There’s no doubt about it. The world has felt the impact of political polarization like rarely before, and it has indeed impacted most of the planet. But the political warfare, which will have it’s winners and losers, isn’t where the real game is. It is impacted by the…
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There are so many wounded and damaged people in the world. When we have all experienced tragedy and loss, and when we experience anger and pain, screaming at the void above our heads seems to be a regular go-to reaction, and for good reason. Theologians and atheists alike have struggled mightily to understand how and…
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Azusa Street. It’s located in Los Angeles, California. Depending on whether or not you’ve heard of this place, it tends to evoke a reaction and a response if you do. The revivals that took place in 1906 in a dilapidated two-story building in downtown LA have produced a wild range of critiques over the years.…
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