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WFW: Friends

10. March 2010

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Friends come and friends go, but a true friend sticks by you like family. Proverbs 18: 24
Isn’t this the truth? A true friend sticks by you like family. They know what a jerk you are sometimes, but they still offer hugs when you are suffering. They know your pains, your weaknesses, your foibles, your sins, [...]

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WFW: God Says YES

24. February 2010

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WFW: God Says YES

I got an email this morning– one of those lousy “Forwards” emails. You know, like those chain emails that go on and on and on while people forward them to every aunt, uncle, and business associate… you know, those emails that are absolutely worthless. I thought I had seen them all when I got one [...]

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WFW: Priorities

17. February 2010

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WFW: Priorities

Teach me, O Lord, the way of Your statutes, and I shall keep it to the end. Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your law; Indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
Make me walk in the path of Your commandments, for I delight in it. Incline my heart to Your testimonies, [...]

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WFW: The Tentmaker

3. February 2010

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WFW: The Tentmaker

So, because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked; for by occupation they were tentmakers. Acts 18:3
…he who had been demon-possessed begged Him [Jesus] that he might go with Him [as a follower]. However, Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, “Go home to your friends, and tell [...]

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WFW: Would You Die For the Truth?

26. January 2010

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WFW: Would You Die For the Truth?

My title could also be: “What Happens When a People Forget Their History.”
In Ancient Rome, shortly after the Flavian Emperors began their dynasty (circa A.D. 80), the Roman government began to come down very hard on other peoples. Whereas the Empire had once been quite tolerant of the nations they’d conquered, they now felt it [...]

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WFW: Forgive

19. January 2010

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I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, “I will confess my transgression to the Lord.” And You forgave the iniquity of my sin. selah Psalm 32:5
Let all bitterness, wrath, vengeance, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, and all viciousness. And be kind to one [...]

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WFW: The Ministry of Reconciliation

13. January 2010

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WFW: The Ministry of Reconciliation

So that if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new! And all things are from God, the One having reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and having given to us the ministry of reconciliation, as, that God was in Christ [...]

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WFW: All Things New

30. December 2009

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WFW: All Things New

Everyone is talking about the New Year coming up. In the back of my mind is the very weighty realization that… I will now have to remember to write “10″ on my checks instead of “09.” It usually takes me about 2 months to get it down regular.
With the New Year, [...]

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WFW: FREE!!

24. December 2009

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For he who is called a slave in the Lord is a freed man of the Lord. And likewise, he who is called a free man is a slave of Christ. You are bought with a price, do not be the slaves of men. 1 Corinthians 7:22-23.
These two young Iranian women were imprisoned to Evin [...]

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