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Evil at the Church Entrance

This is Pastor Emmanuel St-Jean, standing in front of the Baptist Church of Vallue, Haiti. I have written much about Pastor Emmanuel and this church, because I have been led by the Lord to visit here on every trip I have taken to Haiti in the past year! Both Teen Challenge teams visited here and [...]

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Vision Becomes Reality

I’ve envisioned it, dreamed it, prayed it, longed for it, waited so many years. But I was always lacking what I needed to put feet on the vision. I was up in the sky with no way to come down to earth. What if you dreamed of leading worship but had no music skills? I’ve [...]

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Life on the Second Floor

After I wrote the four-part blog entitled, “The Deception of Victory Over Sin,” I read a short message by Steve Gallagher, who is the president and founder of Pure Life Ministries. He shared an illustration that so clearly describes and summarizes all that I was writing in my blog, that I just can’t resist sharing [...]

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40th Anniversary / Mission to Indonesia

I gave Margie a choice. We could celebrate our 40th anniversary with an Alaska cruise (something she‘s mentioned) or she could come to Indonesia with me (I’ve gone there alone twelve times since 1991) and we could combine special times alone with ministry on Java. She chose Indonesia.
Little did I know at the time that [...]

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Time Alone in Haiti

When I’m not on a mission trip, I’m working from my home office, so I’m with my family. Margie and I get away on a special trip each year. We have family vacation each summer, and family reunion, and usually drive out to daughter Molly in Denver at Thanksgiving.
But I’ve been sensing a need for [...]

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His Name is Bibi

Well, it’s really Bristol, but people call him Bibi. He’s a quiet guy, soft-spoken, might even look down when you talk to him. But Bibi has a powerful anointing as a worship leader. He’s a member of Rachete Church in Jacmel, where our associate Joèl is an elder, and where we have developed a good [...]

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Teen Challenge Team #2

In August 2010, we put our son Jimmy in the 15-month Teen Challenge program in Branson, MO, because of serious rebellion problems and what appeared to be the beginning of substance addiction. Through that program, Jimmy has graduated high school a year early, re-committed his life to Christ, blossomed in Christian character, and his restored [...]

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The Deception of Victory Over Sin 4

“And when I reveal my holiness through you before their very eyes, says the Sovereign Lord, then the nations will know that I am the Lord…Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. Your filth will be washed away, and you will no longer worship idols. And I will give [...]

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The Deception of Victory Over Sin 3

If a Scripture verse begins with the word “therefore,” it should be a clue that what it says is the completion of a previous statement. But we Christians have this habit of starting to read the Bible in the middle of a thought, which has led so many to disastrous misunderstandings of what the Lord [...]

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The Deception of Victory Over Sin 2

“So what is the way to have victory over sin and live a life bearing all kinds of rich fruit?”
I’m going to continue in Colossians from the last verse of Chapter 2 right into Chapter 3. Remember that verses, paragraphs, and chapters were placed in the Bible much later than when the books were written, [...]

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