Lennon and the Revelator (2 of 2)

by Greg Willson on May 21, 2012
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Similarities and differences in John Lennon’s Imagine and John the Apostle’s Revelation.

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ABLE for the Journey from Bitter to Blessed

by Pastor Curt on May 15, 2012
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On Sunday toward the close of my Mother’s Day message, I inserted an acrostic using the word ABLE to help crystallize four practical application principles for making the journey from a place of resentment in our spiritual lives to one of true blessed contentment. Naomi (means pleasant or sweet) suffered so greatly from a battle with bitterness [...]

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The Empty Spaces of Our Lives

by Greg Willson on May 7, 2012
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We all tend to orient our lives around removing “empty” spaces, where God is asking us to seek Him in them.

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Dealing with Delays

by Pastor Curt on April 12, 2012
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You can see by the sign our latest thinking. Hopes are high for a CO by the end of April, CW – city willing. We should close out construction relatively soon. Then everything depends on passing all the necessary inspections. Please continue to pray for favor. Even so, we don’t expect to publicize an official [...]

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A Sure Cure for Evil Boasting & Temporal Arrogance

by Pastor Curt on March 7, 2012
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On Saturday, as we dressed for our third funeral in as many weeks, Nancy, my wife, said to me, “We’re dressing in back a little too often lately.” Indeed. Three funerals in three weeks even for a couple hovering around sixty years of age seems a bit much. It has me thinking a lot lately [...]

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A Frightening Prospect

by Pastor Curt on March 6, 2012
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Someone has said, “You’ll be the same person next year except for the books you read and the people you engage.” Surely it isn’t as simple as that, but the force of the statement makes a valuable point. What we read and who we engage do make a difference in to what extent we grow [...]

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A Simple Strategy for Battling Burnout

by Pastor Curt on February 4, 2012
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Not many gray hairs graced the Acts 29 Network conference I attended this week in Orlando. The brothers above (left), however, Ray Ortlund Jr. and Sam Storms, were among the exceptions. Scott Thomas (right), president of the movement, engaged them in Q & A at the close of the conference. Among the questions submitted by [...]

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He Brooks No Rival

by Pastor Curt on January 12, 2012
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I admit it. Working through this quarter’s edition of Free Grace Broadcaster on the topic of self-denial has left its share of bruises and wounds on my experience. For example, consider this paragraph from one of the articles by Charles Spurgeon entitled Family or Christ?: What, then, is the expense [of following Christ]?…The answer is [...]

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The “Scrubbing Floors” Side of Prayer

by Pastor Curt on January 11, 2012
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I continue to feel like God is using Paul Miller’s book A Praying Life in significant ways in my spiritual journey at the top of this new year. That’ true for a variety of reasons, one of which has to do with the balance of his approach between a kind of prayer-without-ceasing-lifestyle approach to intercession [...]

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Our Need for Spiritual Disciplines

by d_thompson on January 5, 2012
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Aren’t Christians supposed to “let go and let God”? Also, isn’t all this talk of discipline indicative of another form of salvation by works? Answer in Greek, “Not”. Welcome to the Spiritual Disciplines Course offering at OGC. The goal of the Spiritual Disciplines course is to encourage and equip Christians in their striving for holiness. [...]

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