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Hope Deferred and the Art of a Good Story  

Renee Ronika 08.07.2015 Dreams, Encouragement, Expectancy, Faith, Hope, Identity, Maturity, Overcome, Story 0
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  [dropcaps type='circle' color='' background_color='' border_color='']P[/dropcaps]racticed readers know that a story is as good as its first chapter, sometimes its first paragraph. To understand our story within the arc of God’s narrative, the concept doesn’t change: we look to the beginning of the story to understand its end.   In the first book of the Bible, we meet a seventeen-year-old Joseph who has just revealed two dreams he received from the Lord, which prophesy of his unique calling. This news rouses his older brothers’ jealousy. They, in turn, sell him into slavery, which is the means by which Joseph fulfills his prophetic dream and...

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The Beautiful Line to The Throne

Jennie Forsberg 13.05.2015 Expectancy 0
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God created a precious and powerful line of communication that goes straight to Him. It is prayer.   The Devil has no ability to contain this. It is the raw material of God and His people. Prayer is out of Satan's influence. He has no power to warp or influence a prayers's trajectory to God's throne after it has been prayed.  Once it is prayed, it bounces around eternity burning before the throne of God. That is quite the picture of what prayer is and how God sees it, but do we truly believe and feel the gravity of what we are doing...

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You Are Free to Do Nothing

Nicole Cottrell 07.05.2015 Encouragement, Faith, Hope 4
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In many Christian circles, we are only as good as the last conference or retreat we attended, class we took, or book we read.   Our “goodness” and “Christ-likeness” are measured against our levels of involvement in church activities. We are often pressured to “do more,” “serve more,” and “give more.” We enter into the exhausting pursuit of "being a Christian."   But pursuing Jesus is something altogether different. Pursuing Christ is actually a counter-intuitive, often uncomfortable, reversal of church life busyness.   At the Prism :: Overcome event two weekends ago, I had the opportunity to talk and pray with a beautiful woman about her...

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