I grew up in a different church than Alice. Alice now goes to a different church than her mom or dad. I use a different version of a Bible that my Pastor dad used for 30 years. My grandmother and grandfather didn’t even go to church most of their life…
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Acts Chapter 14 – My Relatives Could Not Behave Themselves Either
Do you have relatives that you just don’t understand? They are nice to everyone else. Yet, when they ask for a favor, and you help, they end up doing something so awful, that you wonder if they hate you. It’s like the pessimistic phrase, “No good deed goes unpunished!” The…
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Psalm Chapter 43 – Welcome To Cape Disappointment
There will always something or someone that will disappoint you. In 1775, a Spanish explorer Bruno de Heceta, found and noted a large bay, the mouth of a great river. We call it the Columbia River. In 1788, the English Captain John Meares attempted to locate Heceta’s river but failed.…
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Acts Chapter 13 – God’s Leadership Teaching those Teachers
A man with a briefcase knocked on my door; two guys in white shirts and bicycles wanted to talk; a kid had a self-healing book to give me; I was invited to sit with my legs folded and pause for an hour; and then I got to asking the obvious…Who…
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Acts Chapter 12 – Faith By Testing, Resolved By Prayer
For some odd reason, we as Believers are very human in our reactions to life. We love our creature comforts and we forget the struggles when things are doing well. When our Heavenly Father wants to get our attention, we turn a deaf ear to His still small voice. He…
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Acts Chapter 11 – Accountable For Truth and Doctrine
My Testimony is personal and my experience with emotions was real. Does anyone have the right to question my emotional experience? YUP. Peter had a lunch time vision that was bizarre. Then the Holy Spirit nudged Peter to go and follow an unclean Gentile to that Centurion’s home to preach…
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Acts Chapter 10 – When Guys Start Seeing Things
There are some glitches in my old school Baptist way of thinking. One of those things is that mom-like ability to know what the kids are doing, when the kids are in another city. Another one of those things is when a dear lady of deep faith has been praying…
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Acts Chapter 9 – When My Enemy Becomes A Believer
It is so human nature to want to even the score. We as Believers are no less human as if we were blessed with some pious ointment from day one. No, we still have emotions. The early church had their families hauled off to jail by Saul the Persecutor. Even…
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Acts Chapter 8 – Adventurous Fathers for Christ
I sit on my couch and look out the window. That says everything. God designed the heart of a boy to be adventurous, take risks, climb trees, fight creatures, and more. If you give a boy a stick, he’ll act like a soldier warrior man. Yet, when the life and…
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Acts Chapter 7 – A Testimony Worth Dying For
Stephen was not just picked by the disciples, then approved by the Apostles; but was probably one of the 70 disciples sent by Jesus in Luke 9:1-6. Stephen was “full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.” Even when threatened, Stephen’s response was peace filled,…