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Rescue for the Bitter Heart

Paula Masters
2 Sep 2015
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Bitter Heart

  Here is the scenario: a person who has been wounded in heart seeks counsel on how to handle bitterness. As an antidote the counselor offers the Scripture Proverbs 10:12: “Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.” The already emotionally weighed down counselee sets out to perform this spiritual directive. But, now he or she is not simply weighed down with bitterness; guilt and pressure to “love” has been added to the load. The result…fake smiles, fake acts of kindness with a heart still blackened with bitterness. Eventually, the counselee explodes both internally and externally. This comes […]

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A Light in the Darkness

Chrissie Ferguson
1 Sep 2015
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  When news spread that two Tequesta teens – Austin Stephanos and Perry Cohen, 14-year-old friends, did not return from a fishing trip off the Jupiter inlet after a storm on July 24th – a darkness enveloped the hearts of many. Yet in the midst of this darkness, something great was stirring. Almost instantly, a community came together in faith, hope and love, shining a light – the light of Christ – for the world to see.   Many prayed. Some prayed because they were part of the family. Others prayed because they were family friends. Still others, in Florida […]

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Austin and Perry

Transitioning Through the Seasons of Life

John Hawkins, Sr
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Seasons of Life

    Schools are starting back up after the summer and the fall season is upon us. Fall is one of my favorite seasons. Most people have a favorite season and one that they don’t look forward to. One thing for sure regardless of how we feel about any season they will constantly come around. This is also a reality of life. We live life in seasons of constant change. Just as we can’t stop the seasons of the calendar, we can’t stop the seasons of life. Every season brings a new change we must learn how to deal with. […]

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Unshaken In the Midst of the Storm

Anitra Parmele
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When the emails to confirm the interview details are full of things like summer camp schedules, you realize Naghmeh Abedini is not just a tireless advocate for her imprisoned husband, Saeed, but she is functioning as a single mother trying to simultaneously balance the challenges of their two young children, Jacob and Rebekka, and the challenges of every-day life. Naghmeh explains, “I really have so much compassion for single mothers, military wives or people who are handling their life and kids alone. When Saeed was taken in Iran, I realized how much of life I processed with him– how much […]

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Rescue Upstream Battles Against Human Trafficking

Maritza Cosano
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Rescue Upstream

  Human trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation is an illegal, underground business that’s become a global problem difficult to extrapolate a solution. Or is there? How do you combat sexual exploitation in all its forms, especially prostitution and trafficking of women and children, in particular girls, when many victims don’t come forward for fear of retribution? How do you fight against this evil when the definition of “trafficking” has been muddied, even made controversial amongst governments, and the international research done on various cases cannot be distinguished between illegal migration and people smuggling and trafficking a person […]

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Student-led First Priority Clubs Bring the Gospel to School

Shelly Pond
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    Despite government limitations on prayer and Bible reading in public schools, the Gospel is still found on campus today through student led clubs supported by First Priority. By connecting the church with students to reach the campus for Christ, First Priority supported more than 5,000 students in 165 schools throughout Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and the Treasure Coast last year. At these Great Commission Clubs, which meet weekly, students are equipped to share the love of Jesus Christ with their peers who do not know Him. The results are stunning. A reported 3,496 students made professions of faith […]

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An Emotionally Healthy Lifestyle

marissat
12 Aug 2015
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Emotions are an important part of being human. The question is how should you understand the emotions and handle them appropriately? You don’t want to play on the emotions or downplay the emotions. You don’t want to make the emotions all-important, but you don’t want to make them unimportant either. So, how do you legitimize your emotions without being emotionally led? How do you live an emotionally healthy life? In Psalm 13, David models two critical aspects of emotional health: emotional honesty and emotional stability. Honesty and stability There are some people who think, “If I’m going to be emotionally […]

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Memoirs Peek Into The Life of Hazel Hoskins

The Good News
4 Aug 2015
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Hazel Hoskins, a missionary who shared God’s Word on every continent alongside her preacher husband Bob, passed away on June 22, 2015 at the age of 81. Never being content to just “sit there” in this temporal life, Hazel now sits at the throne of Jesus. Born October 3, 1933, Hazel grew up in Bangor, Maine, the eldest daughter of Pentecostal pastor parents Clifford and Helen Crabtree. A 1954 alumnus of Central Bible College in Missouri, Hazel married evangelist Bob Hoskins in 1959 after a long courtship. Immediately after marrying, Bob and Hazel began their lifelong service as missionaries to […]

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And I Sat There

Best Rest

Dr. Tommy Boland
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Best Rest

  In a world where tired is the best word to describe our condition, we need to look to the Scriptures for insight into tapping into God’s inexhaustible grace for an exhausted world. “I wait quietly before God, for my victory comes from him” (Psalm 62:1). “Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him” (Psalm 62:5). How to best rest Think for a moment about all the ways you seek to find rest for your weary soul. To be sure, sleep is the most obvious way to find rest when we are tired. […]

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When Is A Command A Command?

The Good News
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  There are many, many commands in the Bible, and not all of them are equal. Who of us, for example, has a “parapet” around our roof (Deut. 22:8) or greets other brothers and sisters “with a holy kiss” (1 Cor. 16:20)? On the other hand, who of us would dare to deny that stealing is not only a crime but a sin? This shows us that there are at least two types of commands in the Scripture: cultural and trans-cultural.   Cultural A cultural command is like the one found in the Deuteronomy passage above.  Since our culture does […]

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