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Faith - Trust

Prayer In CS Lewis’s book, Mere Christianity, Lewis spells out the fact that when the Bible mentions faith it talks about it on two levels. BELIEF What faith means in the first sense is what most people who are not Christians or who are inv…

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Debbie Griffin

Welcome, We are gathered here to celebrate the life of Debbie Griffin. Debbie’s love for you, her family and friends, goes on unmatched except for her love for God. "Because of Jesus, we have the assurance that whatever disturbs us, disturb…

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The Spirit of God

Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 1 Cor. 2-12 The late great Baptist preacher Adrian Rodgers once compared Christians who don’t unde…

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The Cross – God’s Love

Prayer **30**As soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out. And it was night. **31**When he was gone, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified and God is glorified in him. **32**If God is glorified in him,[c] God will glorify the So…

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LOVE

How do we love like Jesus? For love, to be true, it must hurt just as it hurt Jesus to love. The day is December 11, 1979: in Oslo, Norway, an Albanian nun named Teresa, who has dedicated her life to live a simple life of love among the wor…

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Peter

During a Pastor’s meeting, an old pastor stood up to testify to his faith. Yet his testimony surprised most of them. The pastor stood up and looked at the group and said, “I am a lay pastor of a small, not-growing church. I am not ordained.…

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