The Story of Ezra

If I were the senior pastor and my pastoral team all got themselves wives who were unbelievers, going against God’s wishes, would I rend my clothes, pull out my hair in frustration, sit in utter

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Ins and Outs of Jesus’ Prayer

I’ve noticed that people often ask pastors or spiritual leaders to pray for them… especially for important concerns and issues in their lives. It seems that there is more power in the prayers of these

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Praying Through Hard Times

Question: What do you do when there is bad news? What is your first reaction? How do you feel when your life is threatened? What if the situation seems hopeless? And you feel helpless? What

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Asking for a Hard Thing

“As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” (2 Kings 2:2,4,6) This morning, I see this statement spoken 3x. Who said it? To whom did he say it? Why?

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Praying to Win Over Temptation

Luke 22:31-3431 “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you,[a] that he might sift you like wheat, 32 but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned

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Solomon’s Prayer

1 Kings 3 3 Solomon showed his love for the Lord by walking according to the instructions given him by his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

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Counting the Countless

Solomon, the richest and wisest king of Israel… Of his material and human resources, numbers could be given: daily supply of food, areas of land owned and ruled over, numbers of flocks, herds of cattles,

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When Hubby and I fought…

Tampo queen? (Tampo is sulky in Tagalog) Sumbong queen? (Sumbong is Tagalog word for complain or report) Balat-sibuyas fragile cry-baby? (Balat-sibuyas is Tagalog term for onion-skin or thin skinned, easily offended, easily hurt, sensitive to

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Praying and Running

What do you do when someone is trying to kill you? And that someone is the most powerful man in the nation? You run. You hide. That was what David did. King Saul even killed

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