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Excellence in the Arts
The Beauty of Holiness
Tony My Teacher
Raiders of the Lost Peace
A Fool’s Dream — A Wise Vision
Raise Them Up
Anointing Oil
Lame Excuses
Consider Your Ways
Small Defeats
Grave Dangers - Resurrection Powers
Early in the Morning
Lord of the Wings
Six Steps Away From Blessing
Everything’s Falling Apart!
Strength for Today; Bright Hope for Tomorrow
The Art of Spear Throwing
Nothing is Impossible with God!
Hear and Obey
God listens when His children cry out to Him.
God is stirred to action when we say "only He will do." If your life is in disorder, perhaps God has allowed it to draw you closer to Him. If people knew what it meant to be God's favorite, many would not want to be His favorite. God tests, tries, and refines His favorites with pain, suffering, loss, and heartbreak. God teaches His favorite children to rejoice in sufferings. God uses trials to draw His favorite children closer to Him. If your life is like Hannah's, it may seem like God is the cause of your pain, and you might want to run from God, but you need to fight that urge and draw close to God and refuse to let go.
New Dark Ages
We live in an A-literate culture; a culture where people can read but don't. We are entering, according to Neil Postman, a new Dark Age--a time when people didn't read. An age where manners and morals were at their lowest level. It was a cruel, demoralizing, perverted time in human history—and we are not too far from it again.