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Master Your Craft: Spiritual Growth

Master Your Craft: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual growth. For the last few years, I've gotten really into coffee. I started buying raw coffee beans about 6 years ago and have been working persistently towards developing the perfect method for roasting. Beyond that, I'm always experimenting with various...

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The Mistake of Dividing Faith and Life

The Mistake of Dividing Faith and Life

I grew up in the church and I made the mistake of separating faith and life. I said the sinner’s prayer at age seven which is what you did to become a Christian. I did it because I didn’t want to go to Hell and that was that. It was escaping the fires of Hell. As a...

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Share Your Testimony: Real Faith & Friends

Share Your Testimony: Real Faith & Friends

I started up my first business at the age of 34. Before that, I was in sales but became very tired of the travel.  I sold my corporate stock, bought a franchise and began a 13-year run in small business. It was hard work, long hours and, at first, quite the dip in...

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Where To Focus When In Despair

Where To Focus When In Despair

What a week...business problems, church problems, people problems. It seems all of a sudden that nothing but problems are in my life. A few months ago, I felt as if our business was unstoppable, boy was I wrong. Business has slowed almost to a stop. I do see the light...

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How to Show Unconditional Love

How to Show Unconditional Love

We live in a culture that says treat people the way they treat you. Do unto others as they do to you. But the Bible says do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That means to treat people as you want to be treated- not as you are necessarily being treated....

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The Day I Stopped Being An Atheist

The Day I Stopped Being An Atheist

Where I Started After leaving the church at the age of 12, I began my journey toward atheism. For 20 years, I believed in the big bang theory, humans were from a cesspool of algae that just happen to be perfect for life, and I began to walk because of my ancestors,...

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Hunt or Fish: Effectively Evangelizing

Hunt or Fish: Effectively Evangelizing

Mark 1:17 "And Jesus said to them, 'Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of men.'" Effectively Evangelizing. Throughout my ministry, God has placed so many different people in my path. People from all different walks of life. From the affluent to the poor,...

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Dealing With Secret Sins That Haunt Us

Dealing With Secret Sins That Haunt Us

Matt Lauer, Harvey Weinstein, Al Franken, Roy Moore all recently been caught in a series of allegations of sexual harassment and the list continues to grow. Many of these men have been fixtures in the political or media scene for many years. Lauer has been a versatile...

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Don’t Find Your Identity In Your Work

Don’t Find Your Identity In Your Work

Proverbs 16:13 “Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.” Today we are going to talk about vocation. Vocation is defined as “a particular occupation, business, or profession; calling. A strong impulse or inclination to follow a particular...

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3 Ways You Can Have More Spiritual Discipline

3 Ways You Can Have More Spiritual Discipline

The problem with most Christian men today is we lack discipline! Whether it's reading our Bibles, praying, or just trying to keep our eyes to ourselves, we lack a "spiritual discipline." In essence, we have become "spiritual sissies." "5 For this very reason, make...

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Real Integrity in a Filtered World

Real Integrity in a Filtered World

The Bible says in Romans 3:23, "For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." But we are redeemed by Grace. Christ paid the penalty for our sin when He died on the cross. All we have to do is believe. Romans 10:13 says For "whoever will call on the name...

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My Commitment As A Christian

My Commitment As A Christian

I have to start off by asking this question: would God be able to recognize you from any other person? Would God be able to say without a shadow of a doubt that you were one of his own? What is your commitment to Christianity? Would you ask someone to watch their...

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