I never thought I would do something like this, but I really enjoyed it. Home roasting coffee beans with a hot air popcorn popper…I can check that off my “to do” list now.
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When Trials Come Lyrics Keith and Kristyn Getty Words and Music by Keith and Kristyn Getty When trials come no longer fear For in the pain our God draws near To fire a faith worth more than gold And there His faithfulness is told And there His faithfulness is told Within the night I know [...]
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At Calvary Baptist Church, we are studying the Gospel according to Mark. Pastor Kirk just wrapped up chapter one yesterday. At the end of the chapter is an interesting story where Jesus is confronted by a leper. This man begs for healing, stating that he is confident that Jesus could make him clean again. Jesus [...]
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Monday is Martin Luther King Day. It is a time of celebrating progress in racial harmony and civil rights. It is a time of remembering those who bravely went before us to ensure that equality would be something to be grasped here in our country. It is a time of sober reflection of the depravity [...]
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If there is anything that is certain in life, it is that broken people have conflict with one another. We are all broken people. Sin has affected every area of life and we all experience conflict from time to time. The Church, made up of broken people, is not exempt from conflict. An observation and [...]
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In this series where we’ve covered most of the ground of the booklet from CCEF entitled, “Chronic Pain: Living by Faith When Your Body Hurts“, we’ve come to understand pain personally, see God’s perspective of pain, and come to expect to groan in this life. So if we know pain very well may be inevitable, [...]
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Biblical Wisdom in an Age of Folly The purpose of this conference? To joyfully celebrate and uphold the beauty, goodness, and wisdom of God’s standards for human sexuality against the folly of our age. Our speakers: Tim Challies: Evangelical author and blogger at challies.com Frank Turk: Evangelical blogger at Pyromaniacs The issue of human sexuality [...]
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Part of my purpose in having a blog is to, prayerfully, minister through it to my church family at Calvary Baptist Church in Oswego, IN. Today’s post is for them. We have suffered two deaths in our family between Christmas Day and New Years. How my heart aches for my friends, their families and my [...]
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Top Ten Mistakes Made by Suffering Pastors: In your dealing with others: Act as if you have it all together What we say: “Nothing is wrong” or “I’ve got it under control” What we do: Present a deceitful front to our people and rob them an opportunity to minister to us Fail to be transparent [...]
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