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The Sin of Complacency – How do we move forward when we are sitting still?
The Sin of Complacency –From the heart of Pastor Calvin CookOctober 9, 2025 Scripture focus – “For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, 6and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.…
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Spirit and Truth – genuine, true, and needed –
Spirit and TruthOctober 8, 2025 While away on retreat, it has not only been a time of worshiping together with other clergy but also a great reminder of the need for personal sabbath, reflection and drawing nearer to God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. While the holy fellowship has been great there have been…
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The Need to Continue – personal thoughts on personal Sabbath.
The Need to ContinuePastor Calvin CookOctober 7, 2025 Scripture: “But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.” — Luke 5:16 (NIV) There is nothing like my quiet early mornings. It is healing for my hurt, ointment for my wounds, and comfort for the things I can speak to no one about. It is drawing…
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That Which Last Forever – some thoughts from the Edges – answering questions we won’t like the answer –
THAT WHICH LAST FOREVERPastor Calvin CookOctober 6, 2025 A few days ago, I was asked for an explanation of a few verses in 1 Corinthians 13:8-9. Not wanting to take these verses out of context, I have been looking at this whole section of scripture relating to what last forever and why it would seem…
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What About that New Heart – We all need the transformation that only God can do!
What About that New HeartPastor Calvin CookOctober 3, 2025I knew of a person many years ago, who had become very sick because his heart was diseased and not functioning properly. After a long wait, he received a new heart. This was one of the first human heart transplants. The new heart did not come with…
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The Wind in My Sails. Where is the Holy Spirit taking you?
The Wind in My Sails Pastor Calvin Cook October 2, 2025 “The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” — John 3:8 Recently I was passing by the lake and moving…
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GOD is ALWAYS with US – Realizing the presence of God.
GOD is ALWAYS with US – Pastor Calvin Cook October 1, 2025 “And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell… and the chains fell off his hands.” — Acts 12:7 The question silenced everything around the crowded restaurant I was in when a person who…
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Shielded From Jesus – May we begin to look fully into Jesus.
Shielded From JesusSeptember 30, 20252 Corinthians 4:1-5 Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. 2 Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves…
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NOW IS THE TIME – Following Jesus From the Edges –
Now Is the Time Monday, September 29, 2025 From the Bible — “For he says, ‘In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.’ I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.” — 2 Corinthians 6:2 I am…
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Out or Through? What is God doing?
Out or Through?Pastor Calvin CookSeptember 25, 2025 I am asking the question this morning : Will God get me out of the mess that I am in or will God walk through it with me until I reach a better place? While I think and pray on this thought, not only for myself but for…
Thoughts from the Edges 