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The tension I feel when holding God’s Word in one hand & the daily newspaper in the other

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on July 27, 2013
  • Doubt

For me, there are few times in life that I don’t feel tension, especially when I read the word and pray in the morning.  Really…  Did that get your attention?  🙂 When I read the […]

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Intimacy with God…attainable?

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on March 25, 2013March 5, 2019
  • Bible Study

I talked with a pastor out-of-state who told me he has not had much quiet time in recent years.  Specifically, he was talking about times where he spends time connecting with God through personal Bible […]

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Remember the operable phrase: “As far as it depends on you!”

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on March 13, 2013March 5, 2019
  • Humility

When dealing with difficult people, have you ever recognized your limits?  Of course you have if you have children, or if you work with people or go to church with people.  Some people, for whatever […]

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Learn to receive a compliment…

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on January 22, 2013
  • Encouragement

How do you receive compliments and appreciations?  Receiving a compliment graciously and assertively is as much of a challenge as giving a gracious, assertive compliment. One time after I preached a sermon someone complimented me.  […]

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Intentionality when trying to hear God’s voice…

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on January 12, 2013
  • Hearing God's voice

     Recently the brilliant, insightful Greg Boyd did four short video blogs (about 5 min. each) on discovering and hearing God’s voice.  I thought all four were outstanding.  I found myself responding to each […]

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Here’s why we ask the Spirit to read our heart!

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on January 18, 2011
  • Hearing God's voice

1.  The reason that this verse … Proverbs 4:23 (New International Version, ©2010)23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. … is so vital, so utterly crucial to life […]

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Read the Scripture, exit this world, and go to a place

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on November 29, 2010March 5, 2019
  • Advent

In the 1939 musical fantasy “The Wizard of Oz,” the good witch Glinda tells Dorothy to click her heels together and think to herself, “There’s no place like home.” As she repeatedly chants “There’s no […]

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Arno River, Florence, Italy; June 2019

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