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The Missing Element of Prayer…by Guest Blogger Caleb Gordon
Edgewood Church has been delighted to welcome a new Director of Worship Arts, Caleb Gordon, along with his wife Dianna and baby boy, Emmitt. I asked Caleb if he would write an article for the blog this week… And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this… Continue reading
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“That Old Witch, Lady Reason!”
If you want me to read a blog or pick up a book, just tell me that it has book recommendations in it. I just read a blog this morning, for instance, which offered the 5 top books which a pastor whom I appreciate would take on a deserted island. And then, only last week, I picked up a book… Continue reading
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The Surest Road to Victory
About 30 years ago, I was in college, visiting a friend’s dorm room at the University of Illinois. For whatever reason that day, I picked up a devotional book he had – which one I don’t know – and it included this little story of Joash and Elisha at the end of the prophet’s life, and I’ve… Continue reading
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What to Remember When You Say, “Our Father”
Some truths we have to “push” into our hearts – they must be massaged and worked in like oil into a baseball glove. One of those truths is our heavenly Father’s love for us. Without working to get this deeply, the truth of His love ends up being like water on a windshield. And when… Continue reading
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The Absurdity of Looking Down on Others
To be self-righteous…is to be a fool. Think about the sad story of Abram, Sarai, and Hagar in Genesis 16. Sarai is unable to conceive a child with Abram; and so she, in a move we can’t imagine a wife making in our culture, offers him her maidservant Hagar as a surrogate. Now mind you,… Continue reading
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3 Truths To Encourage You to Pray
I forget that prayer matters. I forget God answers prayer. Though my loving Heavenly Father has been answering my prayers for years, I am too often like those Israelites who in one moment were miraculously delivered through the Red Sea from slavery, but in the next are crying out that God has forgotten them. I forget what He… Continue reading
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When Jerry Bought the Farm
Christmas break has brought beloved son and guest blogger, Josh Knowlton, home from Wheaton College. Today he weaves a tale for us… It was the year 2050 and the end of the world was imminent. The advanced alien race—called the Barbylons by the humans—had taken over the entire world. Burning down entire civilizations and harvesting earth’s precious… Continue reading
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The Finish Line
It’s about 6:20 p.m. now on Wednesday night, and I am sitting here in our Living Room next to the Christmas Tree to write the final blog of the year 2015. As most of you know, I have been blogging every weekday (except Labor Day) this year through the New Testament. And it’s kind of funny – coming home… Continue reading
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