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Battle in the Spirit – Ephesians 6:10-20

I was called to help a Christian who was being attacked by a demon and was able to help her. He had made a kind of appearance to her that was designed to scare the wits out of her and it almost succeeded,

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Do You Still Hold Fast Your Integrity? – Job 2:1-10

Author Joshua Harris, after announcing the end of his marriage, is now kissing his faith goodbye. Harris, the author of the best-seller “I Kissed Dating Goodbye,” a book he authored in 1997

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Willful Unbelief – Matthew 12:22-32

I have a blog called Ask the Pastors, where people are invited to ask Bible related questions of pastors, though, truth be told, I am the only pastor answering (Hey, it started out with more than one pastor

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The Mute Speak – Matthew 9:32-34

She was scared to death, but she came anyway. A woman in her group had called for help. She had seen a demonic presence and it had terrified her. She had been in rebellion against the Lord but this had

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Authority Over Demons – Matthew 8:28-34

I had always believed that Jesus gave believers authority in his name to expel demons, but I had never done it. The first time I was called upon to do so, I was scared. I told the demon to leave in Jesus’

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Smooth Talkers – Matthew 7:15-20

I saw a Facebook post of a young man I know from church. He thought he had some aspect of his life all figured out and then it came unglued. He said he got mad at God, didn’t want to go to church

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666: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 13:11-18)

666 is the sum of the first 36 natural numbers ( i.e. 1 + 2 + 3 + … + 34 + 35 + 36 = 666), and thus it is a triangular number. The number 36 = 15 + 21; 15, 21, and 36 are also triangular numbers;

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Satan’s Wrath: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 12:13-17)

Considered a spy for the British, even though he was an American, missionary Adoniram Judson spent 20 months during 1824-27 in a rat-infested prison, fed poorly, sometimes suspended by his feet, his head

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No More Access: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 12:7-12)

Have you ever heard someone say that God cannot abide the presence of evil? That is patently false, as we can see from the book of Job, in which God talks to Satan in heaven about Job, and, as we shall

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Our Great Enemy: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 12:1-6)

Who has been the enemy of mankind from the very beginning? Who has been the unseen antagonist behind every attempt to destroy God’s people? Who has sought to co-opt God’s kingdom and make it

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Arise, O Sleeper: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 9:1-12)

His sons had told me how hard he was toward Christianity. Their attempts to get him to even hear their testimonies of finding Christ seemed to be met with anger and solid resistance. But now he was dying

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Any Port in a Storm: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 28)

Sometimes our self-made solutions to our problems are dependent on our own abilities, at times when, though the problems are great, we feel we can manage them our way. Other times the problems are so overwhelming

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Lord of All, Even Demons: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 5:1-20)

I can imagine a tagline, “Jesus is the answer to the demons in your life.”  The problem with that sentiment is two-fold: (1) Jesus is not merely an answer for our problems, he is lord of all,

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Daily Thoughts from Mark: Authenticated Kingship (Mark 1:35-39)

And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. And Simon and those who were with him searched for him, and they found

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Daily Thoughts from Mark: What Is This? (Mark 1:21-28)

And they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching. And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as

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