Category Archives: Other voices

Confession and Repentance

Confession and Repentance
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. James 5:16 Last week we talked about a pathway to repentance that included moving through regret.  Another important piece of that path is confession. We…
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Because He Lives

Because He Lives
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never die. John 11:25-26 “Because He lives, I can face tomorrow.” That Jesus lives means everything. The old hymns have some great theology and this one has…
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A Child born but a Son given

A Child born but a Son given
For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given.  Isaiah 9:6 The power of Jesus’ coming is not diminished in the manner of His appearance, but rather reveals it. As Isaiah prophesied, a child was born but a Son was given. I thought this passage was communicating the same thing twice, but…
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Persistent Prayer: Ending before Beginning

Persistent Prayer: Ending before Beginning
It takes awhile for my heart to unfold – to figure out what it feels and finds words to communicate it. I don’t think I’m unusual in that. Getting to some of those deeper parts takes time in a conversation and even more so to get there in a relationship. Even to those closest, it’s…
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