A Change We Can Live With

Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there; and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.” And Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among [...]

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Share Compassion–Be Compassion

Help find a sponsor for a child in need.
Perhaps you already sponsor a child. You know the joy that comes from helping underprivileged children  find love, encouragement and hope for the future. Consider this: You can have an effect on the lives of many other children in need by encouraging others to sponsor a child [...]

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Avoiding Tribulation

Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her and lay with her, and violated her. Genesis 33:1-2
A Father’s Responsibility
I am not going to suggest [...]

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Advisory: Dengue Fever Outbreak (Bolivia) and Military Rebellion (Bangladesh)

BOLIVIA UPDATE: Feb. 23, 2009 – Dengue Fever continues to spread throughout Bolivia AND children from an additional 13 Compassion-assisted child development centers have been affected.
All the child development centers in northern Bolivia are buying fumigating equipment and insecticide and will be trained by the Health Service Department on how to use it.  Neighboring countries are [...]

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The God Who Hurts Us

Then Jacob was left alone; and a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of day. Now when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob’s hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him. And He said, “Let Me go, [...]

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Have We Met?

So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field, to his flock, and said to them, “I see your father’s countenance, that it is not favorable toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me…Yet your father has deceived me…” Genesis 31:4-5, 7a
Mirrors Do Not Lie
Jacob was not [...]

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Love That Waits

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed only a few days to him because of the love he had for her. Genesis 29:20
It is a funny thing I suppose. I am poised to expound on the subject of how authentic love waits while simultaneously waiting for a pastor to return my call. [...]

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A Portrait of Deliverance

…And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep. Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on [...]

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Isa, Rick Warren, and You

“I humbly ask this in the name of the one who changed my life, Yeshua, Isa, Jesus, Jesus (hay-SOOS), who taught us to pray, Our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven.”
 
Rick Warren, from inaugural prayer
 
What I am about [...]

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Blessing Your Child

When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me–me also, O my father!” Genesis 27:34
God’s Will Be Done
When we examine the account of Isaac blessing his sons Jacob and Esau, we no doubt take notice of the devious and deceitful [...]

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