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From the Edges – A Heavy Load
From the Edges – Morning DevotionsPastor Calvin CookThe Burden Focus “God is greater than the burdens you are carrying. Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you.” Psalm 55:22 Are we focused to much on our burdens, troubles, and cares that we are unable to see the way out that God is…
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From the Edges – At the Mountain Top
Morning Devotions – From the Edges Pastor Calvin Cook Where you have been to where you are going Scripture focus – Jeremiah 30:8-10 In that day, declares the Lord Almighty, I will break the yoke off their necks and will tear off their bonds; no longer will foreigners enslave them. . Instead, they will serve…
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From the Edges – Why Things Didn’t Go Better
FROM the EDGES Why Things Didn’t Go Better Pastor Calvin Cook Focus Jeremiah 29:24-32 There is this unspoken thought, sometimes spoken very loudly with the question, why didn’t things go better. I have asked that question a lot. It seems through life’s ups and downs, mountain tops and valleys, that the question of why didn’t…
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Following Up – Something personal.
It’s early in the morning and Sunday is before me. Never did I ever imagine that when the Holy Spirit spoke the word Expectancy into my heart for my Saturday Morning Devotion to Prepare our Hearts for Worship, would I experience a continual teaching on what it is to be Expecting. Most of the time…
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Thoughts from the Edges Preparing Our Hearts for Worship.
SATURDAY MORNING PREPARING OUR HEARTS FOR WORSHIPThoughts From the Edges – Pastor Calvin Cook WORSHIP – EXPECTING MORE –I watched a movie this week of a very well-known Christian song writer, performer Rich Mullins who lived a very indifferent life and died at a very young age. By an indifferent life, I mean, as God…
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From the Edges – Searching for Sanctuary
FROM the EDGES – Seeking what We Are Searching For Pastor Calvin Cook Focus Jeremiah 29:15-23 This morning I found myself searching for Sanctuary. As I have told you in writing and preaching, of that desire to find Sanctuary. The meaning of Sanctuary can muster up many thoughts some of which being “a consecrated place…
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From the Edges – When did the trouble start?
From the Edges – Morning Devotional When did the Trouble Start – Scripture focus – Jeremiah 29:15-19 In the middle of Jeremiah 29 at verse 15 we start to see a shift. It is almost like we live in this gooey, fuzzy, warm feeling relationship where we feel the assurance from God that everything will…
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From the Edges Seek and Find
Morning Devotion – From the EdgesSEEK and FINDJeremiah 29:13 & 1413You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished…
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From the Edges – A Plan to Last – Morning Devotional
FROM THE EDGES – MORNING DEVOTIONALToday’s focus Jeremiah 29:12A Plan to LastPastor Calvin CookBeing a visionary goal-oriented person, I am always seeing the place I want to be. Dreaming and visioning of those things which are possible. One of the first realizations In this mind-set, what is the plan that will get me to the…
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FROM THE EDGES All I need.
Pastor Calvin Cook Today’s focus Jeremiah 29:11 That is All I Need – What do we need today? Seriously what is it that we need? I have had times in my life when my wants outweighed my needs. I can remember a time as a young boy when things weren’t going my way that I…
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