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Childlike Faith – Approaching God with empty hands

Posted on June 24, 2013October 28, 2016 by Michael Rose
There is a lovely story in Matthew 19 where Jesus welcomes little children and spends some time with them and encouraging that to such as these belongs the Kingdom of Heaven. 13-15 One day children were brought to Jesus in the hope that he would lay hands on them and pray over them. The disciples shooed...
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  • The Hangover – Easter Saturday
    April 1, 2021

    The Hangover – Easter Saturday

    Oh man... what did I do yesterday?  It seems like a terrible nightmare.  I am awake now - covered in sweat, trembling and a headache like I had drunk a gallon of wine last night.  I was caught up in something terrible. Something demonic - a mob.  How did this all go so sideways and...
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  • An Uncommon Grace
    May 10, 2012

    An Uncommon Grace

      The following is a scene from Les Miserables (1998) starring Liam Neeson.  In this clip we see an encounter between Neeson's character Jean Valjean and a Bishop (Peter Vaughan).     Today, I can identify with Jean Valjean.  A person who sometimes feels there is just no other way or just simply doesn't have...
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  • Missing God in both Success and Failure
    August 28, 2017

    Missing God in both Success and Failure

    Why is it that when I sense a leading from God and follow through, the results so profoundly determines my hindsight? If things fit together with ease and all goes well I am confident that I have indeed heard God. Alternately, if things blow up in my face, I am suddenly stricken with a rash...
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