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How Faith And Off The Grid Living Combine

How Faith And Off The Grid Living Combine

What does it mean for us as Christians to prepare for possible hard times ahead? How do we reconcile the commandment to seek God’s kingdom first rather than worrying about our physical needs with the responsibility we feel to provide ...

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Wandering In The Desert, Part 5: If We Never Get There…

Wandering In The Desert, Part 5: If We Never Get There…

The Lord showed [Moses] the whole land…and said to him, “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob…I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it.   (Deuteronomy ...

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Wandering In The Desert, Part 4: Idols

Wandering In The Desert, Part 4: Idols

When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said “Come, make us a god who will go before us.  As for this fellow Moses who brought us out ...

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Wandering In The Desert, Part 3: Daily Bread

Wandering In The Desert, Part 3: Daily Bread

Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you.  The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day…No one is to keep any of it till morning.” However, some ...

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Wandering In The Desert, Part 2: The Things We Miss

Wandering In The Desert, Part 2: The Things We Miss

In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.  The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and had all the food we ...

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Wandering In The Desert, Part 1

Wandering In The Desert, Part 1

Learning to read the Bible in the present is the key to the prophetic faith.  All of us gathered here today stand at Sinai…Fleeing into the desert from Pharaoh, the escaped slaves covenanted to become a free people by living ...

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Pruning Time, part 7: Surrender

Pruning Time, part 7: Surrender

Give over thine own willing; give over thine own running; give over thine own desiring to know or to be any thing, and sink down to the seed which God sows in the heart; and let that grow in thee, ...

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Pruning Time, part 6: Humility

Pruning Time, part 6: Humility

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. . . To be nothing in the self-effacement of humility, yet, for the sake of the task, to ...

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Pruning Time, part 5: The Way of Ignorance

Pruning Time, part 5: The Way of Ignorance

Do what we will, we are never going to be free of mortality, partiality, fallibility and error. . . Because ignorance is thus a part of our creaturely definition, we need an appropriate way: a way of ignorance, which is ...

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Pruning Time, part 4: Silence

Pruning Time, part 4: Silence

The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, ‘Create silence!” …The Word of God cannot be heard in the noisy world ...

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