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“Believe in Jesus” Printout
Do you ever want to display an important truth for yourself or others? Here is pretty printout of how to get everlasting life, in both PDF and JPG form.
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Free to Abide
By Nancy Rempel The wretched grey donkey panted wide-eyed, nostrils flaring. Suspended in his harness between the wooden wagon shafts, its body drooped like a kitten hanging by the scruff of its neck. The load of sugarcane behind him, weighing hundreds of pounds, towered over him. Despite the cursing and beating of the donkey’s master,…
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The Snake, the Boy, and the Jungle
A Short Story By Annette Halsey Carlos leaned back from his desk and stretched. Like others living in the Millennial Kingdom, he was not overworked and enjoyed what he had to do, but there were still opportunities for hard work and a sense of satisfaction when that work was accomplished. After yawning, he stood and…
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Freedom from Subjectivity
By Nancy Rempel Off Course The skydiver dangled four feet above the ground, her parachute wrapped around the power lines above. Nearby, a second skydiver narrowly missed a mailbox, landing in someone’s backyard. High winds dragged a third jumper and her canopy through a liquid manure-soaked field. This story is a composite of bad landing…
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Don’t Just Count Miracles
Arguments concerning cessationism vs. continuationism By Annette Halsey Recently I was part of a Bible study where a question was asked about Biblical passages touching on miraculous gifts, specifically Biblical passages about cessationism (i.e., that Christians today no longer exercise the miraculous spiritual gifts) or continuationism (that Christians today do still exercise the miraculous spiritual…
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The Freedom of Submission
By Nancy Rempel On July 2nd, 1863, Union Colonel Colvill raised his sword above his head, the initials “U.S.” clearly etched on the blade, and belted out the order to fix bayonets. Out-manned, Colvill’s 1st Minnesota Regiment of 262 men galloped downhill in a daring counterattack against 1200 Confederate soldiers of the Alabama Brigade. Their…
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From Doubt to Assurance: A Free Grace Testimony
By Tiffany Brown Childhood Confusion “If you don’t do/feel such and such, or if you can’t recall a time that you gave your life to Jesus, then you might not be saved.” I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard this line or some iteration of it from the pulpit. I spent my childhood…
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Freedom through Anxiety
By Nancy Rempel Our city, Kelowna, rests on either side of Okanagan Lake, connected by the longest floating bridge in Canada. About 50,000 cars pass over this bridge every day. Nobody parks on it. It is a way to get from one side to the other. Anxiety is like that. A way to get from…
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Existential OCD: Mental Illness or a Cry for God?
By Micaela Manley Introduction Humans have always wrestled with questions of meaning, purpose, and existence—but for some, these thoughts become overwhelming and inescapable. For these individuals, clinicians have often applied the label of Existential OCD, a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder that centers on intrusive philosophical or spiritual questions. Although the majority of the population has…
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The Freedom of Weakness
By Nancy Rempel Introduction In the Disney movie The Lion King, lion cub Simba, in disobedience to his father, King Mufasa, goes to the elephant graveyard with his lion cub girlfriend, Nala. Bloodthirsty hyenas ambush the cubs, intent on having them for dinner. Simba enrages the hyenas, scratching one on the cheek, and the chase…
