Tag: bible
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Less Oblivious, More Aware
In your relationships, whether with your spouse, a friend, or a co-worker, have you ever felt like the person you have a relationship with is oblivious to who you are? They want you to see the world only through their lens, not your unique lens. Of course, we all have people like that in our…
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Less Critical, More Kind
I’m a decent writer, and I’ve always enjoyed writing. One of the things that brings me great satisfaction is when I can edit what I write. I’m pretty good at finding all sorts of writing and grammar errors. I like efficiency in my writing. Sometimes I tend to be too wordy when I write, so…
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Presence In Your Relationships
As a pastor, I occasionally provide marital counseling. Here is my observation about couples seeking counseling: Many couples, by the time they seek counseling, are simply two people living under the same roof but really living on two different planets. Their marriage has come to a place where they are merely roommates. Not helpmates, not…
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Daily Bread—Listening Prayer
A man thinks his wife is losing her hearing. He tells his doctor about it and the doctor says he can do a little experiment to determine the severity, “Ask her a question from the next room in a normal tone of voice, and keep asking while coming closer until she can hear you. That…
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Complete in Christ—2 Peter 1:1-10
If you have ever driven by my house, you may have noticed a red Volkswagen Van sitting there in my driveway. Madison and I purchased this van and a 1990s model Subaru Outback several years ago. We pulled the engine out of the Subaru and intended to put that motor into the Volkswagen Van. “Why…
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Daily Bread—Give Us Today Our Daily Bread
Here we are in week 3 of our series, Daily Bread, where we are looking at how Jesus taught the disciples how to pray. We are focusing on Jesus’ model prayer in Matthew 6. In case you haven’t been with us the last two weeks, let me just say again, that this prayer in Matthew…
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Daily Bread—Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
This is week 2 in our series Daily Bread. We are taking about six weeks to examine what we should learn from Jesus when He teaches the disciples how to pray. Jesus shows the disciples, and us, a blueprint or a model for prayer. Many of your Bibles probably title this section of Matthew 6…
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Daily Bread—Our Father in heaven, your name be honored as holy.
One of the things Olivia said she is looking forward to the most is some good connection with the Lord during her ride. It can be many, many miles of just you, your horse, and the open space. There are no phones, no appointments to get to, no crowds of people, and no list of…
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The Romans Road
We dropped Olivia off at the airport yesterday morning. She is en route to Mongolia as we speak. She is currently at the Incheon International Airport in South Korea. She lands in Mongolia about 3 pm our time. Her journey to ride in this Mongol Derby has been a multi-year, multi-dollar, multi-person effort. Pretty much…
Chris Hankel 