No one—and I mean no one—is exempt from being offended. Remember John the Baptist? You may be thinking, “Surely not him. Someone who eats locusts and honey and dresses in camel’s hair is surely past the point of being offended. He was one committed dude—magna cum laude in the halls of religious excellence as far as I’m concerned!” But unfortunately…
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Do you need a new beginning?
This past Sunday, Pastor Willie Alfonso spoke at Christ Tabernacle about his new book It’s A New Beginning: How to Turn Setbacks Into Comebacks. I am happy to share an excerpt below on forgiveness. It’s very powerful. “After I got saved, I told God that I didn’t want to forgive my father. Although I had asked Nancy’s father Nacho for…
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Be Quick To Mend Fences
I can tell you what the church’s standard is, but let me make it more personal. Let me tell you what my standard has unfortunately been in past years. Allow me to paint a picture for you. I am in the middle of hot, passionate worship with the Lord—tears falling, arms swaying—and there I remember that a certain person has…
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Your Heart: A Dirt-Free Zone
One morning a woman came to my house crying hysterically. She had taken her twins to school and came home to find that her husband had taken all his things and moved out. Before I go on with the story, let me just say that I had been a Christian only a short amount of time and was not—I repeat—I…
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God Wants To Use…Me?
Most of us, for whatever reason, have weird stereotypes or distorted views about who God really is, whom He could possibly use, how He acts or reacts, and what certain concepts in His Word really mean. Because of these misconceptions, our Christian lives are relatively joyless, and we get bent out of shape trying to accept the very things that…
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The Fire of God
Does it strike you as odd that God is always comparing Himself with fire? His eyes blaze like fire (Rev. 19:12). The Book of Hebrews tells us that our God is a consuming fire (Heb. 12:29). Jeremiah 20:9 says His Word is like a fire. He showed up in the fire with the three Hebrew boys (Dan. 3:25). He was…
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