Your Mandate for 2022
COLLEEN TINKER Can you believe this is the second New Year we have welcomed in the time of Covid? When we all entered our first two-week “lockdown” to “slow the […]
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Category: Devotional
Christmas Security
COLLEEN TINKER This Christmas season I am impacted by the way God brought the world’s attention to the end of the law and the revelation of the new covenant. Through […]
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Rescued and Transferred!
MARTIN CAREY Every night Sharon and I take our little old dog Cashew for a 20-minute walk. Even though we live in a mostly peaceful neighborhood, we have seen the […]
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He Has Done Great Things For Me
KELSIE PETERSEN A few months ago, my youngest, aged eight, found a small New Testament he was gifted at a Vacation Bible School about three years ago. It bears special […]
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Living Life Together
THE LIFE AFTER WITH CHRIS LEE The wind howled in a sustained blast as it tore through crevices in the mountain. With gale force it dislodged mighty boulders causing them […]
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You Can Leave it Behind
NICOLE STEVENSON “And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable, “A sower went out to sow his […]
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Are you standing in the place of God?
YEN CRESS You may have heard it said, “Jesus is our example.” When we look closely at this claim, however, we find some inherent problems. If Jesus is our example, […]
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Thank God for Turkey and Cream Cheese Frosting
COLLEEN TINKER This coming week we in the United States will celebrate our annual Thanksgiving holiday. This day is rooted deeply in our country’s early history and echoes the stories […]
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The King Is Coming!
ROLAANT MCKENZIE Near the end of the 1983 film, Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, the Rebel Alliance after many years of conflict against the tyranny of […]
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Are You Bought With A Price?
MARTIN CAREY It’s Friday afternoon, and you just got home from work. You step into the living room and stop to look around. There are clothes on the floor, muddy […]
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Take This World But Give Me Jesus
KELSIE PETERSEN A year ago, I wrote a post about changing seasons and the unchanging nature of God. I’ll confess, the “season” of life here has been more “winter” than […]
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God Will Never, Ever Abandon Us
BY ROLAANT MCKENZIE Recently I read an interview of Bishop Athanasius Schneider. Bishop Schneider’s parents were Black Sea Germans from Odessa, Ukraine. After World War II, they were sent by Joseph […]
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What Is True?
BY COLLEEN TINKER A Facebook conversation drew me in this week. The original post (written by a former Adventist) asked, in essence, how much personal discomfort and loss we would […]
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Jesus Provides Certainty in an Uncertain World
ROLAANT MCKENZIE Open Doors, based in Ermelo, The Netherlands, is a Christian mission that supports persecuted Christians around the world by distributing Bibles and Christian literature, providing discipleship training, and […]
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