Ben Godwin
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Today’s Church Has Lost Its Spiritual Ark of the Covenant
It was a time of great spiritual decline and moral decay in ancient Israel. Eli, the obese high priest, was 98 years old and blind, physically and spiritually. His corrupt sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were “sons of Belial” who “knew not the Lord” (1 Sam. 2:12, KJV). “Belial,” a biblical term meaning “worthless or wicked …
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Why So Many Christians Don’t Understand the Crux of Christianity
Christianity stands alone as the only religion whose founder came back from the dead. This month, millions of believers will celebrate the greatest event in history—the Resurrection of Christ. How ironic that the world’s best news came from a graveyard. The Easter story is the linchpin that holds Christianity together. Without the cross and the …
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Feel Like a Spiritual Wimp? Let Holy Spirit Make You a Warrior
The Midianites invaded Israel like a swarm of grasshoppers. God let them oppress His backslidden people for seven years and chastise them for their chronic idolatry. The Israelites survived by hiding in caves during the invasion. The enemy swooped in at harvest time and destroyed their crops causing a dire food shortage. On the brink …
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Align With God’s Priorities for Your Life by Asking These 4 Questions
How great was King Solomon? So great that Jesus spoke of his glory and wisdom nearly a thousand years after his death (Matt. 6:29; 12:42). Solomon, by his own admission, had it all, saw it all and did it all—but it all left him empty (Eccl. 1:12-18; 2:1-11). This proves that earthly possessions and pursuits …
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Secrets About the Gospel of John You Probably Never Noticed
The Gospel of John is unique from the “synoptic Gospels” (Matthew, Mark and Luke), so called due to their similar content. The synoptics cover many of the same miracles, parables and events of Jesus’ life and ministry. There is a lot of overlap, repetition and even some parallel passages that are nearly identical. Generally speaking, …
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Why the Holy Spirit Wants to Build This Ministry Into Your Life
As a teenager, I worked part-time in my dad’s company, Builder’s Hardware, in Tampa, Florida. Fascinated by the forklift, I watched with envy as my older brothers and other employees unloaded pallets of hardware from trucks and hoisted them up on shelves in the warehouse. Sadly, I was never legally old enough to operate the …
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The Simple Key to Tapping Into Holy Spirit’s Supernatural Power
John Wallace wrote, “Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.” Think about that. A simple, sincere petition can influence the Creator of the universe to intervene in your situation. Truly, prayer is a valuable asset to the believer. As such, it should be our first resource not our last resort. Unfortunately, some people treat …
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Have You Wandered out From Under the Canopy of God’s Favor?
An ounce of prevention is said to be worth a pound of cure. Never was it truer than when God levied the tenth and final plague against Egypt—a death angel sent to claim the firstborn child of every household. To shield the Israelites from this threat, God instructed each family to slay a lamb and …
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Be Careful Not to Despise Your Day of Small Beginnings
S. Truett Cathy, founder of the Chick-Fil-A restaurant chain, passed away in 2014 at the age of 93. He started the first Chick-Fil-A restaurant in 1967 in the Greenbriar Mall near Atlanta, Georgia. Today, there are over 2,100 restaurants in over 40 states. Their restaurants are closed on Sundays to honor the Sabbath and to …
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3 Practical Ways Job Can Teach You to Respond in Tragedy
Perhaps you’ve heard the saying, “You can’t have a testimony without a test.” If anyone ever embodied that truth it was Job. He lost everything but his faith. His life was shaken to the core, but he didn’t waver despite his extreme suffering. Job was a wealthy, influential man who had “a very great household” …
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How to Walk in Christlike Purity in a Sex-Saturated Society
Rahab’s rehabilitation is one of the most remarkable stories of redemption in all of Scripture. It’s the story of how God turned a harlot into a heroine of faith. A heroine is defined as “A woman noted for her courage or ability and admired for her brave deeds and noble qualities.” It all took place …
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How to Fall More in Love With Jesus in Your Valley of Dry Bones
Life is full of peaks and valleys, ups and downs, highs and lows. Though we’d love to live on the mountaintop all the time, that’s not reality. You will face some dark valleys in life, so don’t be surprised or despair. We all experience disappointments, failure, betrayal, conflict, broken relationships, financial stress and the loss …
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3 Amazing Things God’s Favor Does in Your Life
When good things happen to unbelievers, they call it luck; when good things happened to believers, we call it favor. As Christians, we don’t consider ourselves to be lucky because we know we are blessed—highly favored by God. When God was grieved with all mankind, “Noah found grace [favor] in the eyes of the Lord” …
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Beware of These Last-Days Thieves Sneaking Into the Church
My wife and I were working at her father’s house on Sept. 1, 2016, when suddenly my phone vibrated in my pocket. Our neighbor called to inform me that our home security alarm had been triggered. I sped to our house to find an intruder had tried to kick in the front door (a dirty …
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Why God Lets You Fall Flat on Your Face Sometimes
Sometimes God lets us fall flat on our face, just so we realize we can’t do it without Him. Such was the case when Peter momentarily walked on water and then abruptly sank. Jesus sent His disciples across the Sea of Galilee while He went up into a mountain to pray. They did exactly what …
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