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The Season of Lent
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Do You Want The Truth? Devotional Guide
Monday: In Matthew 8:5-13, we find a remarkable story of faith that astounds Jesus. A centurion, a Roman officer in charge of a hundred...
Do You Want The Truth? (Rev. Dr. Charley Reeb)
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Keep the Faith: When You’re Impatient Devotional Guide
Monday: Read Jeremiah 29:11. If life doesn’t make sense to you right now and you are impatient with God, take that verse into your heart...
Keep the Faith: When You Fail (Rev. Dr. Charley Reeb)
I want to begin today by telling you my message in four words.  These four words sum up one of the key messages of our faith – failure...
Keep the Faith: When You Fail Devotional Guide
Monday: Read James 1:3-4. It seems a bit ridiculous for the writer of James to tell us to consider our trials and failures as “nothing...
Keep the Faith: When You Can’t Find a Way (Rev. Dr. Charley Reeb)
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Understand Wandering, Being Lost, and Dementia
The wizard Gandalf, in JRR Tolkien’s book The Fellowship of the Rings, wrote a letter to the hobbit Froto explaining the riddle of...
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