Tag: persecution
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What Shall We Do?
Some Pharisees spent just as much time and energy trying to get rid of the apostles as they had spent getting rid of Jesus. Eventually most of the apostles died as martyrs, but the church still spread and continues to this day. These unbelievers were fighting against God, as Gamaliel put it in Acts 5:39,…
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Fear Of Fire
When I was a girl, maybe 6 or 7 years old, the house behind ours caught fire in the middle of the night. Our whole family got out of bed and watched it from our sliding glass door. We knew the neighbors were safe, but I still cried because I was afraid the fire would…
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Test Time!
Consider it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. James 1:2-3 NASB There’s a scene at the end of one of the Harry Potter movies when the headmaster announces that all finals have been cancelled. Of course everyone gives out a massive…
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Is God Safe?
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.Hebrews 10:31 It seems like during the covid quarantine I heard the term “cost-benefit analysis” more than ever before. A cost-benefit analysis is really just a fancy pros and cons list, sometimes put together in retrospect. In business I guess it’s pretty…

