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Replace Fear With Fervor – Part 3

The last few weeks I’ve been discussing how to overcome the fear of sharing your faith with others. The first thing is to make it a matter of prayer, confessing your anxieties to the Lord and asking him for boldness and opportunities to witness. The second thing is to be as prepared as possible b...
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Replace Fear with Fervor – Part 2

How do we overcome our fear of witnessing, turning our fear into fervor for Jesus? My last blog proposed that the first step is always prayer. Opening our heart in humility and honesty to the Lord and addressing our struggle should always be our first option. Understanding our gospel obligation, ...
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Replace Fear With Fervor – Part 1

Shakespeare famously wrote, “our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win by fearing to attempt.” This certainly applies to Christians who shrink from the responsibility of sharing their faith with others. Being a bit introverted, I have always found personal evangelism out of m...
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Go Tell It on the Mountain

John Wesley Work, Jr. originally published “Go Tell It on the Mountain”, but it is not known whether he wrote the African-American spiritual or if it came down to him through oral tradition. One thing is clear: the Lord certainly intended the birth of his Son to be known since He announced it wit...
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Ashamed of Jesus?

It’s Missions Emphasis month at Faith Family Church; a time when we purposely emphasize our obligation to worldwide evangelization. It’s not just about supporting those who take the gospel to other countries, but also about our responsibility to be witnesses for Christ. The Bible is clear that al...
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The Collapsing Bridge of Adolescence

The U.S. has over 600,000 bridges, almost four in 10 of which are at least 50 years old. Moreover, about 9% of America’s bridges are considered “structurally deficient,” and on average there are about 188 million trips across a structurally deficient bridge each day. While this is concerning, the...
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