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  No Longer Children

  Posted on July 21, 2018 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

  By Stanley D. Gale Children display a wonderful naivety to life – trusting, unassuming, authentic. Jesus held up childlike faith as the posture for entrance into the kingdom of God. Challenging worldly conceptions of greatness, Jesus beckoned a child to Himself and said this: “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like […]

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• Shepherding – the rest of the story

  Posted on April 20, 2015 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    People like T. M. Moore and Tim Witmer have done the church a great service in recent years by drawing attention to the shepherding role of God’s leaders. Twenty years ago I used T. M.’s workbook on Shepherding God’s Flock, reviewing for my elders the design of a shepherd in the model of Christ […]

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• The Power Grid for a House of Prayer

  Posted on February 11, 2014 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    My region was rocked by an ice storm last Wednesday.  The aftermath was catastrophic, like something out of a war movie.  Entire trees came down, some on roadways, some on houses, some on cars.  Fallen branches were everywhere, taking with them power lines. My home lost power about five in the morning.  We were […]

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• Prayerenting

  Posted on July 14, 2012 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    Parents are called to shepherd their children.   In so doing, parents are to provide for the needs of their children, to guide them in the way of truth and righteousness, and to guard them from the ways of the world and the waywardness of their hearts. In describing the work of a shepherd, the […]

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