Tag: god
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The Unlosable Assignment
“I don’t say this out of need, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I find myself. I know how to make do with little, and I know how to make do with a lot. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being content, whether well fed or…
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Merry Christmas to all from Pilgrims Pondering Ministry. Thank you so much for pondering with me this year. After much analysis, only this remains, Pray constantly. Fully receive circumstances with gratitude. Be a good steward. Fear God and keep his commands. Spread the good news, for it is good and the only way! For this…
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Isaac Jogues: The Missionary Who Walked Back Into the Fire
The Thirty Years’ War was raging in Europe, fueling a near–cold-war divide between Protestant and Catholic powers. France, under Catholic monarchs like Louis XIII, was aggressively Counter-Reformationist, using the Jesuits as intellectual and spiritual shock troops to reclaim ground lost to Protestantism. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the New World was a chaotic frontier. French, English,…
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70,000 fathom ladder
The 70,000 fathom ladder – A man spent years climbing a huge ladder. People cheered him on, told him it led somewhere important. So he kept going step after step, never looking down. When he finally reached the top, he found nothing there. No platform. No door. No destination. Just empty air. Then he looked…
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Dust to Dunamis
In God’s economy, there are no coincidences. The Ascension took place on the Mount of Olives, the very ground where Christ will one day set His feet again, as Zechariah 14:4 promises. Today, the Dome of the Ascension sits as a marker. The disciples never set out to make it a shrine or tourist site,…
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Wrath and Restoration
Ephesians 4:26 commands, “Be angry and do not sin.” The emotion itself is not sin; it can reflect a moral awareness of evil or injustice. Yet James 1:20 warns, “The anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.” Human anger, when untethered from humility, fails miserably. It seeks revenge rather than redemption. Jesus…
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Present with Christ: In the arms of eternity
When Job went through loss, he asked God for an explanation. But God never gave him an answer. Instead, God gave Job a revelation of Himself. And that was enough. Before we try to solve everything with logic or search endlessly for explanations, the best place to begin is simply getting to know God’s character…
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A walk in the woods (shaupeneak ridge)
At the foot of Shaupeneak Ridge, before the climb begins, there is a field that rolls out like a great green sigh. Not flat, not orderly, but rumpled with small hills and dips as if the earth once shifted. Here where the ticks dance in the tall grass, before the trees gather to form the…
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it is not a political goal
Some accuse believers of being “Christian nationalists” simply for praying in public or affirming biblical truth. Others weaponize traditional values as if morality alone could redeem a nation. In both cases, the gospel is distorted. Christianity is not about identity politics, it’s about identity in Christ. It is not a tribal badge or cultural campaign.…
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NEW BOOK !!!
📜 🫵🏻 New Book Alert: Timeless Truths, Faithful Leadership by Will Forge 🫵🏻 📜 Timeless Truths, Faithful Leadership, presents a bold Christian manifesto for a generation disoriented by manipulation, greed, and cowardice. This book dares to challenge both secular culture and a compromised church, calling for a new form of leader, one forged by truth,…
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