Biblical Reasons God does not answer some prayers
Posted May 15th, 2009 by Mike Hubbard
The Bible promises that God answers the prayers of his people. But there are occasions in the Scriptures where God does not answer, and in some texts, does not even hear our prayers. This does not mean that God needs a hearing aid, rather that prayer is first and foremost a relational activity between God […]
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Biblical reasons to pray
Posted May 11th, 2009 by Mike Hubbard
I mentioned on Sunday that I was going to publish a few blogs this week on the issue of prayer and our prayer lives. I am going to pick several topics about prayer, and then let the Bible speak for itself. Most of these will be lists with Scripture passages. In this blog I am […]
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Modern Issues and Lying – By Weston Ely
Posted April 29th, 2009 by Mike Hubbard
This past Sunday, we looked at Jesus’ moral teaching about taking oaths. The root of his teaching exposes our tendency to be dishonest. I used four categories to classify the reasons that we lie (Apathetic lies, Cowardly lies, Manipulative lies, and Malevolent lies). I also proposed that loving God and loving others is a formula […]
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Making sense of persecution
Posted March 28th, 2009 by Mike Hubbard
Trying to make sense of a world where multitudes of people whoa re serving God suffer persecution as a result can be pretty tough. We can wonder where God is and what he is doing when hearing of followers of Jesus who are jailed, have their children taken away, or are killed for their faith. […]
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Cindy Winters on the Early Show
Posted March 24th, 2009 by Mike Hubbard
I mentioned that the wife of the pastor who was killed during a church service in Maryville, IL two weeks ago during the service this past Sunday. This is a video of Cindy Winters, wife of Fred Winters in an interview about the events, and her forgiveness of the man who killed her husband.
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