Tag: faith
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From the Edges – Being Lost is Not Bad.
From the Edges – Morning Devotions LENT – Day 6 – Being Lost is Not Bad Pastor Calvin Cook Scripture focus – Deuteronomy 8: 6-7 “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him. 7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into…
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From the Edges Surrounded
Morning Devotions – From the Edges Pastor Calvin Cook LENT – DAY 3 – SURROUNDED – Scripture focus – 2 Kings6: 16-17: He said, “Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” 17 Then Elisha prayed and said, “O Lord, please open his eyes that…
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From the Edges – Morning Devotions – Fighting Won Battles
From the Edges – Morning Devotions LENT – DAY 2 – Fighting Won Battles – Pastor Calvin Cook Scripture focus – 1 John 4:4 (NLT) “But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who…
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From the Edges – Preparing for Worship by the Stream
Worship by the Stream – For a quick respite, Gail and I were at our home in Hyndman PA. On my morning walk I experienced scripture come alive through the lessons of scripture and walking beside the stream. Hyndman sits in a beautiful valley with Wills Creek flowing through and the Wills Mountains standing on…
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From the Edges – A life of Allowing God –
Morning Devotions – Allowing God ! Scripture focus – Jeremiah 31: 3-6 What are you allowing God to do? What are you not allowing God to do? So much of what is happening in our lives is what we have allowed God to do. Have you allowed God to have his way. I know…
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From the Edges I Could have just moved on !
Morning Devotions – From the EdgesPastor CalvinI Could Have Just Moved On –Today, I got out of sync, away from normal practices and discipline. I had a sleepless night. Not for any reason other than maybe not putting my mind to rest. The first couple of hours were OK but by 1AM I was walking…
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From the Edges – Walking the Way !
Morning Devotions – Walking the Way! Scripture focus – Jeremiah 31 Walking the way of the Lord is tough. We want to, we really want to, but there are so many distractions. In our trying to be faithful to the call of the Lord but more to walking within the will of God. We don’t…
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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…
