Purpose & Identity
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Satanist Designer Denounces Target for Pulling Collection from Stores
Target is reeling amid continued backlash and boycotts across the country. The retailer’s stock has shed $13 billion in value according to Bloomberg. Target has long been a proponent of the transgender movement, allowing men to use the women’s bathroom back in April, 2016. Now, when news broke that Target was working with a “trans-satanist” …
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Pride or Humility?
“Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall” (Prov. 16:18). “Before destruction a man’s heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor” (Prov. 16:12). In a world where increasingly evil is called good and good is called evil, I pray for America as we ponder the path of life. I cannot and …
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Pentecost: Holy Living for Our Holy God
In 1 Thessalonians, chapter 4, the apostle Paul instructed the believers, by the authority of the Lord Jesus, about “how you are to walk and to please God.” He bluntly told them it was “God’s will” for them to “avoid sexual immorality” (v. 3; NIV). The Greek word Paul used that is translated “sexual immorality” …
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God Answered The Dream I Didn’t Know I Had
Someone once called me a “practical Pentecostal.” I’m a pretty level-headed guy. I try to be led by the Spirit. I pray about all major decisions, and I seek wise counsel. I don’t look for prophecies, yet they sometimes come in unusual ways. And though I appreciate them, the prophetic words are rarely dramatic. But …
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Deliverance is Not an Option to Set the Captives Free
Jesus won our redemption on Calvary. He took away the shame of our sin long before we were born. But we must appropriate that wholeness into our lives. We must take authority over Satan and renounce all control he might claim over us. There is still a demonic power in this world, and we have …
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10 Days of Pentecost 2023: Finding Comfort and Contrast at Pentecost
Would I have responded like that 7-year-old? The question burned in me after recently hearing of a family forced to flee their homeland upon becoming Christians. A friend of mine who often assists persecuted believers was helping the family pick up the pieces of their lives in a foreign country—all because of their faith. After …
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Trials are the Surefire Way of Knowing if Your Faith is True
If there’s one thing I can promise you about life with Christ, it is that it will not always be easy. Walking side-by-side with Christ does not always mean that everything will come simply to us. There’s a reason that Jesus said, “If anyone will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up …
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4 Scriptural Promises for This Mother’s Day
With Mother’s Day this weekend, I oddly find myself not focusing on just the women in my life, but on the men as well. I am not wondering what “the guys” will gift me with on this holiday, because they are doing dinner for Mom and me. They already told us that we “are not …
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How a Christian Gains Life by Choosing Death
God gives us a new life in Christ by making our spirit come alive through the supernatural work of salvation. We’re saved so we can introduce Jesus to others, but how do we transfer the new life in us out into the world? From Your Spirit—Through Your Soul—Into Your Life I am a spirit, who …
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Fasting is Feasting on God
When I am fasting, the Lord reminds me that my body’s hunger is what my spirit feels when I don’t consume spiritual food. Food and drink for our spirit is a necessity (Psalm 42:2, Matthew 5:6). Humanity’s First Temptation In the garden, the first temptation was with food. Jesus’s first temptation in the wilderness was …
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George Foreman Knocked Out Hatred and Now Champions Forgiveness
Before he found Jesus, George Foreman knew nothing about the concept of forgiveness. He didn’t want to know anything about it for himself, and he especially didn’t want to give it to people he believed had hurt him. But once God entered the picture, the former heavyweight champion of the world simply couldn’t avoid it. …
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The Next Generation Will Perish Without the Holy Spirit
During my teenage years, I was eager to move beyond the confines of my narrow Pentecostal background, so I rejected much of my upbringing. I had been touched by the Lord, but was running from Him. To me, surrendering to God meant ending up in some forlorn mission field, and I didn’t want that for …
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Why Don’t More Christians Celebrate Pentecost?
It’s undeniable that most Christians celebrate Christmas and Easter. But why not Pentecost? What makes Pentecost so mysterious to most people? What happened on the Day of Pentecost changed the world. Before then, the Holy Spirit did not permanently reside in the human heart. However, after Jesus’ death, resurrection and ascension to heaven, the Holy …
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The Shocking ‘Transformation’ of Michael Todd’s Easter Service
Michael Todd’s Transformation Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has caused waves across social media in the past few days for their Easter play called “Ransom.” Clips of the play have been circulating across social media, especially on YouTube, leading many to create reaction videos of what was seen at the service. Part of the play included …
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Why We Must Tell New Believers About the Holy Spirit
One of the best parts of Easter weekend is that there are people all across America, and the world, who have just given their lives to Christ after hearing the message of the gospel. This is something we should praise God for. But we cannot let these new believers sink in a world that is …
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