Someone Is There

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I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray,
I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray,
Way Down Yonder By Myself
An I couldn't hear nobody pray

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You ever felt like you were all alone? The world can be a terrible place when you are alone. I can remember as a young child having dreams about being somewhere where I couldn't get in touch with or contact my family. There is something about being with others.

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Don’t Turn Around

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Don't You Let Nobody Turn You Round,
Turn You Round, Turn You Round
Don't You Let Nobody Turn You Round,
Walking Up The Kings Highway

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One of the biggest issues standing in the way of forward progress is perseverance. We start a bit and then stop. We don't lose those the weight because we cease our program. We don't finish the book, because we allow things to stand in our way. We stop.

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God Wants To Be With Us

Every year around this time when I was growing up we made the long trek from Kansas City, Missouri to Etowah, Tennessee. I can remember getting up at 1 am as my father would pack the cars and me and my two brothers would get in the back seat of the car and go to sleep. By the time we would be half way there.

I had no idea how important those long trips were. For many of those years I didn't realize that "grandma" meant "Mother's Mother." In fact, not until becoming a parent myself did I fully understand the need of parents and grandparents to just "see" their off spring.

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Wrong Time For The Blessing

Proverbs 27:14 reminds us that there can be a wrong time even for a blessing. When it is time for something else, and someone comes in and loudly shouts, even the right sounding thing, we can find our blessing turning into a curse. This scripture gives the example of someone yelling the blessing to wake up the sleeper. It is time for sleeping. Sleeping has benefits and is a needed by the human body. However, someone might feel the need to wake up the sleeper to give her a blessing.

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Traditional or Contemporary Worship…So What?

How do you Praise God? Today we have battles over the music that is sung in church. We have the traditionalists calling us back to the solid songs of their youth. They argue that the best music supports the church theologically and musically. It is largely a call to the rich heritage of the church.

In contrast there are those who argue for contemporary music. They argue that the church must reach the youth with their music by speaking to the "felt needs" of this generation or we will lose them.

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