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Who’s Inside Your Head?
Psalm 119:11 (ESV) “I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.” Coaches constantly warn their players not to let the other team get inside their heads. The...
Pastor Stephen Dufresne
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“One Teacher”
You and I speak English, read English, and write in English. Yet we all had different teachers growing up. We each know addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Yet we all had different teachers along the...
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Disciples Growing Together
My daughter and I are doing a 500 piece puzzle together. There are 4 pieces that have two straight edges (so far we have found only 3). There are many more that have one straight...
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Which Christianity?
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, in an article posted by CNN on Thursday, January 24, 2019, declared that “Christianity’s future looks more like Lady Gaga than Mike Pence.” At stake, in Graves-Fitzsimmons’ mind, was which Christian self-identity will...
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Covid-19 and the Reality of Death
We work in science and medicine and encourage some precautions not to cheat death, but to make sure that we respect the life God has given to us and others.
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Don’t Miss the Good That’s Coming.
Jeremiah 29:32 “. . . therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah of Nehelam and his descendants. He shall not have anyone living among this people, and he shall not see the good...
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“Now Is a Good Time to Buy a Field”
In Jeremiah 32, the Lord instructs the prophet to buy a field. The timing is important because the economy didn’t look good and the prospects for Israel didn’t look good. It was the “tenth year...
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Pig Pile!
As boys, my brothers and I, along with the other boys in the neighborhood, played “pig pile”. The rule of the game was simple: whoever had the ball would get tackled and then everyone else...
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A Box of Tissues and God Almighty
What if all God had to offer was a box of tissues? You know, like that commercial where the man sits out in the street and people come and bear their soul only to be...