Tag: jesus
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Thoughts On Distractions and Sleeping In – Thoughts From the Edges
Thoughts on Distractions and Sleeping In From the heart of Pastor Calvin Cook August 8, 2025 Scripture : Proverbs 4:24-27 Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you. 25 Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. 26 Ponder the path of your feet;…
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Successful Failure – What is Success according to God –
A Successful Failure – Pastor Calvin Cook – August 7, 2025 Scripture – O Lord, you have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; everyone mocks me. 8For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, “Violence and destruction!”…
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When the Mirror Speaks – Seeing Specs through Logs.
When the Mirror SpeaksPrepared and shared by Pastor Calvin CookAugust 6, 2025 Scripture: “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all…
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Some Thoughts on Hearing From God – You are never to far to hear from God –
Some Thoughts on Hearing from God Pastor Calvin Cook August 5, 2025 Scripture focus : “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Yesterday I heard from a dear sweet sister in the Lord. This sister has been a very important part of my journey in faith, because as her…
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Hold On – We Do Not Shrink Back – We Persevere
Hold On – We Do Not Shrink BackPastor Calvin CookAugust 4, 2025 Scripture focus : Hebrews 10:35-39 So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. 36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. 37 For, “In just…
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OUTSOURCING YOUR INTIMACY ! Thoughts on Relationship with God From the Edges.
Devotional: Outsourcing Your Intimacy with GodFrom the heart of Pastor Calvin CookAugust 1, 2025Scripture Focus: Jeremiah 29:13 (ESV) “You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.” Prelude – (written after the devotional was written) Todays devotional is from a series of moments with God in seeking and discernment…
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STEP INT THE NEW
“Step Into the New”From the heart of Pastor Calvin CookJuly 31, 2025 Scripture: Isaiah 43:18–19 (NIV) “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”…
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MAKE ROOM FOR YOU – Making Space for God to move !
“Make Room for You”From the heart of Pastor Calvin CookJuly 30, 2025 Making Space for God to Move – Inspired by the song: “Make Room” (by Community Music / Elyssa Smith) Scripture: Luke 10:41–42 (ESV) “But the Lord answered her, ‘Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary.…
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Quicken Our Response – Thoughts on Being Ready from the Edges.
“Quicken Our Response” From the heart of Pastor Calvin Cook July 29, 2025 Psalm 119:60 (ESV) “I hasten and do not delay to keep your commandments.” This past weekend as I was preaching – I kept hearing the words “Quicken our Response”. I was preaching on the historical response that people have had to God’s…
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Make Room – Thoughts From the Edges while following Jesus.
Make Room –July 24, 2025Pastor Calvin Cook Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. 17Therefore do not be foolish but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18And do not get drunk with wine, for that is…
Thoughts from the Edges 