In the vision of Ezekiel 47 the river flows due East, in the footsteps of God. But the world, the society we live in, has another vision of salvation. Over the next three weeks we are going to transfer the three temptations of Jesus and reveal how they are still temptations for us today. The […]

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Steve McPherson showed me an interesting tidbit. The University of Iowa studied the impact on a student’s GPA between those who attended a religious service compared with those who did not.  Of course I was not surprised to learn that the students who attended services got better grades than those who never attended. The surprise […]

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After church one evening my whole group of friends went out to Applebee’s. We had a large group so multiple tables were pushed together to accomodate us. As we began ordering and joking around, my best friend sat at the other end of the table, so I hustled around to tell him something, when boom. […]

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