Monthly Archives: June 2014
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When God Answers Prayer the Wrong Way
Posted on June 23, 2014 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.God’s answers to prayer don’t always follow our expectations. David, king of ancient Israel, was reaping the fruit of his sin. God had told him after his adultery with Bathsheba that, although his sins would be forgiven, his household would never be the same. Sure enough rape and murder and strife descended upon his […]
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Suspect Submission
Posted on June 16, 2014 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.The year was about 586 B. C. Jerusalem had been taken, the walls torn down, the temple destroyed, the people taken captive and deported. Because of Judah’s unfaithfulness to the covenant, Yahweh had given them into the hands of the Babylonians. Jeremiah, the prophet of Yahweh, had been allowed to stay in the land. […]
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The “Cause” of the Cross
Posted on June 9, 2014 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.I read a devotional recently that spoke of a young boy taken by his mother to church. At the front of the church hung a cross on which was nailed a man. The boy asked his mother who that was. When told it was Jesus, the Son of God, the boy asked his mother […]
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Ask and You Will Receive – the Holy Spirit!
Posted on June 2, 2014 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.“…how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” (Luke 11:13) What would God’s answer to this prayer look like? What do we miss out on from neglect of asking for the Holy Spirit from our Heavenly Father? This invitation to ask for the Holy Spirit concludes […]
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