Life Here and There

If there’s a command in the Bible that’s difficult to keep, it’s the repeated command to forgive others. It’s really tough. As you look at the model prayer of Jesus, He encourages us to express our forgiveness to others in light of the fact that we’ve been forgiven of so much.

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It has been said that a historian is a prophet in reverse. I do believe we can learn from the past, but we don’t. I also think that the conditions leading up to the 1929 stock market crash have been increasingly prevalent again today. As of today, about 45% of the world’s wealth has been destroyed and now banks from 20 countries are going to meet together to figure out how one world bank might alleviate some of the global banking situation. Our government is looking to spend potentially trillions of dollars it doesn’t have on problems it can’t fix. Why?

We forgot to ask for our daily bread.

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Richard Baxter once prayed, “Lord, what thou wilt, when thou wilt, where thou wilt.” And he meant it. But where on earth can we go to find a place where God’s will is done perfectly? Nowhere – only in God’s “kingdom” is His will carried out with perfection.

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