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Does God Hear Prayers or Does God Answer Prayers?
Have you ever asked yourself these questions: Does God hear my prayers? Does God answer prayers? Does He hear the prayers of a sinner? Is He even listening? How am I supposed to pray? I don’t even know how to pray – how can I pray? Why pray He never answers my prayers? These are common questions we ask ourselves or others when we feel that God is not hearing our prayers. When we are in doubt as to whether we are being heard when we do pray, we question sometimes if God is really there? The Bible mentions prayer many, many times so it must be important. A search…
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I Can Only Imagine – Review of Excellent Movie about Forgiveness
I Can Only Imagine (2018) Cast: J.Michael Finley, Madeline Carroll, Dennis Quaid, Trace Adkins, Cloris Leachman, Brody Rose,Priscilla Shirer Directors: Andrew and Jon Erwin (The Erwin Brothers) Writers: Alex Cramer (story by), Jon Erwin and Brent McCorkle Synopsis: J. Michael Finley stars as grownup Bart and Brody Rose as young Bart. It is the true story of Bart Millard (of MercyMe) and his relationship with his alcholic father, which prompted him to write the amazing song, I Can Only Imagine. The story brings hope to many as you see the power of God in bringing reconciliation and forgiveness after the pain and hurt many of us go through. Trailer with Bart Millard
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What the Apostles’ Creed Teaches
What is the Apostles’ Creed? The Apostles’ Creed is the oldest creed of the Christian church. It was not written by the Apostles. It is the basis for other creeds that followed. The most common form is: 1) I Believe In In its oldest form it goes back to at least 140 A.D. The church leaders wrote this summary of their beliefs as they had the need to stand for what they believed. It is not Scripture but is a simple list of the doctrines of the beliefs of the Christian faith and the Apostles’ teachings. 2) God the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth This statement clearly states that the Christian…
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Steps to Peace with God – Is saying a prayer all that it takes?
Steps to Peace with God – Billy Graham Evangelistic Tract My husband and I have been on the New Member Counselor team with our church for the last ten years. We were trained on how to witness to unbelievers and to ‘lead them to Christ’ using this Evangelistic tract. Many people are confused on what this means and how does saying a single prayer assure one of Salvation and eternal life in heaven with Jesus. Many don’t know this but a man named Charlie Riggs, in a 1954 London Crusade, developed these four steps andttitled them ‘Steps to Peace with God’. Since then, many versions of…
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MasterLife Book 1 – The Disciple’s Cross by Avery T.Willis, Jr.
Bible Study Review Details: Title: The Disciple’s Cross (MasterLife Book 1) Author: Avery T. Willis, Jr. and Kay Moore Publisher: Lifeway Press, 1996 Original Category: Bible Study, Discipleship Reviewed By: Taresa Lutz, Christian blogger, Believer in Jesus Christ (http://www.standingfirmproducts.com) Recommended? Highly What is MasterLife? My husband and I first ran across this study around 12 years ago at our church. It was recommended that new believers in Jesus and new members of the church should attend this Bible Study. It was about three years later that we actually started taking the class and later began to facilitate the class at our church. MasterLife is a developmental, small-group discipleship process that will help…
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Discerning the Voice of God – Bible Study and Book Review
Book/Bible Study Review Details: Title: Discerning the Voice of God – How to Recognize When God is Speaks Author: Priscilla Shirer Publisher: Lifeway Press, 2006 Category: Christian Living, Women, Spiritual Growth Reviewed By: Taresa Lutz, Christian blogger, Believer in Jesus Christ (http://www.standingfirmproducts.com) Recommended? Yes There are several versions of this book. Priscilla keeps updating it every few years. As time passes she grows and learns in her walk with him, she finds it necessary to revise her book to reflect new stories, new wisdom and add new exercises to the book. There is a 2012 version which includes Chapter Challenges that help you hear His voice more clearly. A new 2017…
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Living Victoriously in Difficult Times – How?
Book Review Details Title: Living Victoriously in Difficult Times Author: Kay Arthur, Bob & Diane Vereen Publisher: Waterbrook Press Category: Bible Study Reviewed By: Taresa Lutz, Christian blogger, Believer in Jesus Christ (http://www.standingfirmproducts.com) Recommended: Yes, Highly Overview of the 40 minute study This is a 6 week, ‘no-homework’ bible Study and one of Precept Ministries Internation 40 Minute Bible Studies series. I facilitated the study of this book in the summer of 2013, with about 20 or so women from my church in the class. These studies are geared for people who are interested in learning for themselves what the Bible says on various subjects, but have limited time for study…
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Bible Study Methods Courses – A Great Way to learn to study the Bible
Bible Study Methods Courses Back in early 2006, my husband and I, found that we really wanted to delve deeper into the Word, and realized when we saw a sign promoting a Bible Study Methods class from the College of Biblical Studies that was being held at our church, that we wanted to check it out. The College of Biblical Studies offered this class FREE so why not, right? Just one night per week for 8 weeks. So we did it! The instructor of the course, Dr. William Boyd, was amazing. He obviously had been a student of the Word for many years and was well versed in all the terminology/methods taught…
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Forgiveness: Breaking the Power of the Past – Is it Possible?
Do you carry grudges, pain from old hurts, pain from recent hurts? This is a review of this 6 week, no-homework bible study. My husband and I facilitated this study last summer (2017) with a group of family and friends.. Many in the group had been dealing with or had known someone dealing with being able to forgive someone who had hurt them in some way. In some cases the hurt was old, and had been carried for many years. In others it was more recent. In some cases the hurt had been discussed and supposedly forgiven and forgotten. In others it had never even been discussed. Just held inside to crop up when…
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Determining What Scripture Says
How to Study Your Bible by Kay Arthur We have been students of Precept-Upon-Precept Bible Studies from Precept Ministries International for many years. We have learned so much from these studies of which most have been written by Kay Arthur or written by Kay with a co-writer. Each study includes a Video lecture by Kay Arthur or someone on her staff (many times her son, David Arthur). In our class we would come to class early and watch Kay’s video, and then following that, our teacher would arrive and we would go over the Lesson from our homework and discuss it in depth with the rest of the group. The method of study is…
