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How Christian Surrender Means Victory
We don’t like patience and surrender! Why? Because the heart of sin, the heart of the fall is that we want our own way. This is the essence of all of our struggles against God and against each other. We are angry and scared about giving up our way, what we think is best for us, what we want. Rationalize it as you want, Christian surrender is not something that we usually want to do. In our younger years, we have to have this one guy even though he’s not a Christian. Or he’s married. We want to go to this college. We want to have this career. Maybe we…
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Dissertation Proposal for Blueridge Ranch Retreats
I finished my Doctor of Ministry dissertation proposal on founding Blueridge Ranch with much fear and trembling. One of the things I like so much about Biblical Life College & Seminary (BLCS) is the doctoral programs’ freedom and flexibility — and one of the things that makes me nervous is the doctoral programs’ freedom and flexibility! I hope to hear by the beginning of next week if they have accepted the proposal, which outlines the founding of Blueridge Ranch Retreats. I will keep you all posted. In the meantime, I am aware that I must resist the temptation to be so focused on the dissertation that I forget to focus…
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Power in Prayer: Week 1
The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.” (James 5:16-18) Jesus taught, “…I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you” (Matthew 17:20). 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 tells us, “The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of…