Tag: casting crowns
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Obituary 2: Searching for souls of my family
Giving up on God Today we hearken to the cries of family and the hearts of souls seeking lost meaning not only for the lives of dead (or nearly dead) loved ones, but also crying out for meaning to their own lives. We were born connected to the souls of a family and lament at…
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Is anybody out there?
Please pray for me, as I also pray for you. I need answers from the Lord. Roger Jesus Rejected at Nazareth 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. 17 And the scroll…
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Is that all there is (for my family)?
One day your ‘teen’ or ‘twenty’ reveals first to their friends and then to a parent: I’m ‘in a relationship,’ or I’m gay or I’m a vegan or I’m a witch or I’m quitting school or I’m pregnant or I’m getting an abortion or… or… any one of a number of things YOU as their…
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The Gospel of the Kingdom
Matthew 9:35 And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. What is the gospel? More specifically, what is the gospel of the kingdom which Jesus proclaimed? To begin, look back to the centuries and millennia at the…
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Were you once a ‘friend’ of Jesus?
What would Jesus say about you? Do you witness HIS NAME? A long time ago the lyrics of a couple of wonderful songs by Paul Simon seemed nonsensical to me, yet the soothing sounds settled my thoughts into a place of silence – a tranquility of inaction in a chaotic world. Suppose Jesus Christ, Lord…
