We regularly (and willingly) expose ourselves to verbal (and sometimes physical) assault every day. If you are a sports fan or player, the field is fraught with hits and emotional highs and lows. Winners ride the wave of victory, losers retire to lick their wounds with analysis of what went wrong with this or that play. Injured players visit their physical therapists for treatment.
Read full article...Prayer: A gift. A blessing. The essential practice that is often squeezed out by our individual and corporate sense of priorities. (Although I encounter it less frequently than in the past, I still witness some church committees or boards that resist devotional time because they are there to "get things done"). I won't go into all of the obstacles that folks present when talking about their prayer life. I will simply make this statement:
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