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The summer skies were blue and cloudless,  sending every neighborhood child outdoors to play. Some were down by the creek catching crawdads while a game of baseball had formed in the quiet street and  a backyard swimming pool was filling up  with laughing teenagers.  That July day was perfect. No ...

Nature is a God-given source of peace—when we focus on the right things. Consider the Golden State of California, with its dessert climate of unique flowering plants such as the bird of paradise—as colorful as a tropical bird and shaped like one as well. Dark mountains rise up around many ...

Hebrews warns us to be sure we don’t fail to enter God’s rest. First, let’s clarify that if we don’t enter God’s rest we won’t lose our salvation. Secondly entering God’s rest doesn’t mean we sit back become lazy spiritually or physically. We don’t expect God to spoon feed us ...

Most people perceive Jesus as a meek, gentle preacher of the gospel in ancient Israel. But this is simply not true. He was passionate about preaching the Kingdom of God to all creation. He brought a new message to the world that the Kingdom of God was alive and well. ...

“God does not call the qualified, he qualifies the called.” Christine Caine If you are at all like me, you will have believed he could call others, but not you.  This is simply not true.  Through you, Christ does His work.  You need no skills, no great fortune, just to ...