Category: Prayer
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A Light for the Ones We Can’t See Yet
A lighthouse is a strange thing when you stop to think about it. Nobody builds one for the people who are already safe in the harbor. The folks standing on the shore with their feet on dry ground do not need a beam of light sweeping across the water. The lighthouse exists for the boat…
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Because He is Faithful
There is a certain kind of house that everyone ought to get to grow up near. Maybe it was a grandmother’s place, or an aunt’s, or the home of a neighbor down the road. What made it that kind of house was something simple. The door was always open to you. You did not have…
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What the Winter Field Knows
Toward the end of winter, if you stand at the edge of a field and look across it, everything tells you the same thing. The ground is gray and brown. Nothing is moving. Nothing is growing. If you trusted your eyes alone, you would conclude that the field is finished, that whatever life it once…
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Top 10 Reason to Pray the Bible
Most of us pray the same things in the same words every single day. Not because we don’t mean it — but because we’ve run out of words. Donald Whitney, in his book Praying the Bible (Crossway, 2015), puts his finger on the problem precisely, “When we pray, we tend to say the same old…