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SERIOUSLY, WHERE WILL YOU RUN?

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Jonah 1:1-3 Is God All Powerful? Is God All Knowing? Is God Everywhere present? Is God sovereign? These are the questions you want to ask yourself when you read a passage of scripture like this or any passage in bible for that matters. There is absolutely nowhere to run or hide for anyone or anything. God is all powerful, all knowing, everywhere present and completely sovereign over your life.  Listen to what the word of God says!  “O LORD, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there!...

Do You Desire God? - Paul Washer

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ARE YOU A FOOL?

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Psalm 53:1-11 ARE YOU A FOOL THIS MORNING?  A simple fool is a person who doesn’t purposely go out looking to make mistakes but quickly corrects them after it happens by saying "what a fool I was to do this".  The hardened or stubborn fool makes many blunders, but never learns from them and will not listen to others.  The mocking fool mocks the things of God. This word means "scoffer" or "scorner." When you encounter sceptical people who disregard the things of God.  The God-denying fool who is a morally wicked person who ignores God’s morality of standards and despises godliness and those who possess it.. This person says, "There is no God.  This would be the biggest fool of them all! A person who says, "There is no God.  What does it mean to be a fool? Because this isn’t a compliment in any way to called one!  The definition of a “fool” is a person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a silly person. A synonym of a fool is “idiot, ...

GOD IS OUR REFUGE, SO BE STILL

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Psalm 46:1-11 This world is a crazy place that can leave a person asking a million questions along with doubting everything we thought to be true and foundational.  For example: Where are you God in the midst of our calamities?  With crime and murder on the rise. The taking of innocent life through abortion, people fleeing their own country in fear as it is in Syria. The destruction of family through divorce or young adults walking away from a faith that was never theirs in the beginning. Spouses who have been exposed by the perversion found in the hacking of Ashley Madison website.  I read an article that Ed Stetzer wrote and the opening paragraph said this  ”This week, I’ve already written a couple of posts on the Ashley Madison hack and information leak because pastors, Christian leaders, and families are facing devastating revelation and the after-effects of public sin. Based on my conversations with leaders from several denominations in...