How does a woman who must come to the well alone, apart from the other women and has 5 past marriages become the one who would go into her town and proclaim Christ to its inhabitants? John 4:39 (ESV) 39 Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I […]
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I live in a farming community. I have learned to measure my year by the activity in the fields. Winters are quiet with snow covered fields. You know when spring has come, because the canals fill with water and the tractors are in the fields. The fields require tending throughout all the seasons and stages
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I am always surprised at what people claim the Bible does or does not say. Many people have a huge misunderstanding about the things Jesus said and did as they are recorded in the Bible. There is a whole discipline by scholars who eliminate things from the Bible, but I am not referencing them. I
Variations in worship styles abound in the church. We differ in preferences as to how formal or informal the style of worship service. We are concerned with where the church is located. Some of us want large megachurches, while others choose smaller intimate congregations. Some of us are more comfortable as spectators, while others prefer
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Water. We take water for granted. I just go into the kitchen or bathroom and there it is. The closest I come to understanding water from any other perspective, is when I am camping. When we camp with no hookups for the trailer (did you catch that, it still comes from a faucet…), water becomes
