By CGI New York | April 21, 2017 | Category CHRISTIAN LIVING IN MODERN TIMES
God desires none to perish (2 Peter 3:9). He desires all to come to repentance and to accept Christ as their Savior. He desires us to love Him with all our heart and soul (Deuteronomy 6:5; Joshua 22:5; Mark 12:30). He desires us to love our neighbor (Leviticus 19:18; Mark 12:31). He also desires us […]
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By CGI New York | April 21, 2017 | Category CHRISTIAN LIVING IN MODERN TIMES
At a recent Christian Women’s Conference, I had the opportunity to lead the “Get to know you” activities. It is always exciting to bring people together and learn new things about folks you haven’t met before or those you haven’t seen in a long time. The fact that you can get people to become vulnerable […]
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By CGI New York | April 21, 2017 | Category CHRISTIAN LIVING IN MODERN TIMES
Are you using the gifts that God gave you to benefit His word? In the bible God says He’s given each of us a gift that we should use to not only serve one another, but to also serve God & His church! (1 Peter 4:10) Are you using the gifts that God has blessed […]
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By CGI New York | April 7, 2017 | Category Holy Days
This coming Sunday evening at sunset, many of us will memorialize the death of our Savior by taking the symbols of the New Testament Passover. We will meet, quietly and reflectively, to review the meaning of these symbols, and participate, by washing one another’s feet (John 13:3-17), eating unleavened bread, and drinking what amounts to […]
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By CGI New York | April 2, 2017 | Category CHRISTIAN LIVING IN MODERN TIMES, Holy Days
In every country, we find that people devotedly celebrate their national holidays. These special days are reminders of important events in a country and/or culture’s history. They provide permanence between a nation’s past and present. Most often, citizens can understand and explain at least some of the significance of these national celebrations. Yet, in contradiction, […]
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By CGI New York | April 2, 2017 | Category CHRISTIAN LIVING IN MODERN TIMES
For those who are on Facebook, we know what it means to “unfriend” someone. On occasion, you will accept someone into your “inner circle” by accepting their friend request, only to find out that they are a person that you have little or nothing in common with. Maybe you knew them in college, but since […]
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By CGI New York | March 30, 2017 | Category CHRISTIAN LIVING IN MODERN TIMES
WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?! To me, there are some real head-scratchers in the Bible – those “what WERE you thinking?” moments that God does not really explain for us. Take Lot for example. He had an angry crowd outside his door, demanding he turn over the strangers he was hosting. “No can do,” says Lot, […]
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By CGI New York | March 18, 2017 | Category CHRISTIAN LIVING IN MODERN TIMES
Every boy looks up to his father, and when he is young, wants to be just like him. I believe that is something that God placed into boys. Boys want to be like their father, and girls want to be like their mother. Unfortunately, as boys become young men, and girls become young ladies, all […]
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By CGI New York | March 18, 2017 | Category CHRISTIAN LIVING IN MODERN TIMES
The smoke stacks at the power plant I worked at were over 600 feet tall. We were building the coal-fired plant and we had to line the inside of both stacks with brick. There was a cable drawn elevator for hauling people, bricks, and mortar that went all the way to the top on the […]
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By CGI New York | March 18, 2017 | Category CHRISTIAN LIVING IN MODERN TIMES
We are admonished by the apostle Paul to “walk in the Spirit” (Galatians 5:16). I have read this and other verses talking about our spiritual walk for years, but the meaning of the concept never really “clicked” with me like it did during a recent study on the subject. Paul talks about being led by […]
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