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A priest ought to be in no place where his Master would not go, nor employed in anything which his Master would not do.
Henry Edward Manning

Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard aan the glutton will come in poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.
Proverbs 23:20-21
The English Standard Version

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If you need a boost in your faith, we hope you’ll join us for our 2nd Annual Ranch Retreat here in the heart of the Great Midwest on Columbus Day weekend, October 10-12.  We’ll have great food, great worship, great messages and great fellowship.  Why not get away and see what God has to say?  Click here to learn more or to register.

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God sent me 1,000 hints that he didn’t want me to keep doing what I was doing.  But I didn’t listen, so he set off a nuclear bomb.
Jack Abramoff

Christ suffered for our sins once for all time.  He never sinned, but he died for sinners to bring you safely home to God.  He suffered physical death, but he was raised to life in the Spirit.
1 Peter 3:18
The New Living Translation

We put ourselves there.  The door to hell is locked from the inside.
James A. Pike

I believe praise is a powerful weapon against the enemy.  Breakthroughs happen as we praise God.  He can work a miracle in whatever situation we face regarding our health, finances, family, or career.
Arah Wehrli

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
James 1:8
The King James Version

People who make decisions based merely on what seems most advisable to them will inevitably choose something inferior to God’s best.  Jesus, the ultimate model for the Christian life, did not rely on His own best thinking, but depended completely on His heavenly Father for wisdom in everything.
Henry Blackaby

LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
Psalm 10:17
The King James Version

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov

Bread for today is bread enough.
E. M. Bounds

“Also you shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger, because you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”
Exodus 23:9
The New King James Version

Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor’s son.  The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief, and spoke like a thief.  But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor’s son, the boy walked, looked, and spoke like any other child.
Lao Tzu

We’re 2 months away from our 2nd Annual Ranch Retreat and we’d love for you to join us!  You might think, “Is this really for me, even if I live far away?”  Yes, it is!  Over the years we’ve heard from people from all over the world asking if they could visit us here in Illinois–and many have!  Now we have a special event where you can join us for a whole weekend and get a boost in your faith in person.  Our theme this year is “Transitions,” so if you find yourself in a time of transition and want to hear how God can help you through it, come join us on Columbus Day Weekend, October 10-12th.  The deadline to register is just 6 weeks away, so make your plans to visit us today!  Click here to learn more or to register.

Whenever our desire to be right overshadows our desire for another person’s well-being, we are not living for Kingdom purposes.
Mary Albert Darling

Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
Psalm 33:18
The King James Version

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

“For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.”
Matthew 10:20
The English Standard Version

Don’t let so much reality into your life that there’s no room left for dreamin’.
Texas Bix Bender

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If you need a boost in your faith, we hope you’ll join us for our 2nd Annual Ranch Retreat here in the heart of the Great Midwest on Columbus Day weekend, October 10-12.  We’ll have great food, great worship, great messages and great fellowship.  Why not get away and see what God has to say?  Click here to learn more or to register.

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We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking.  We move along the surface of things going from one quick base to another, often with a frenzy that wears us out.  We collect data, things, people, ideas, “profound experiences,” never penetrating any of them…But there are other times.  There are times when we stop.  We sit still.  We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory.  We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.  Then we begin our “going down.”
James Carroll

For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 14:2
The New King James Version

Blind as we are, we hinder God, and stop the current of His graces.  But when He finds a soul penetrated with a lively faith, He pours into it His graces and favors plentifully.
Brother Lawrence

“But cowards who turn back from followng me, and those who are unfaithful to me, and the corrupt, and murderers, and the immoral, and those conversing with demons, and idol worshipers and all liars- their doom is in the Lake that burns with fire and sulphur.  This is the Second Death.”
Revelation 21:8
The Living Bible

Every Sunday the ducks waddle out of their houses and waddle down Main Street to their church.  They waddle into the sanctuary and squat in their proper pews.  The duck choir waddles in and takes its place, then the duck minister comes forward and opens the duck Bible.  He reads to them:  “Ducks!  God has given you wings!  With wings you can fly!  With wings you can mount up and soar like eagles.  No walls can confine you!  No fences can hold you!  You have wings.  God has given you wings and you can fly like birds!”  All the ducks shouted, “Amen!”  And they all waddled home.
Soren Kierkegaard

Worry less about offending the people and more about offending the Gospel.
William Brosend

that you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
1 Thessalonians 2:12
The New King James Version

The whole world is nothing more than a singing and a dancing before the Holy One, blessed be He.  Every Jew is a singer before Him, and every letter in the Torah is a musical note.
Nathan Naphtali