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From Death to Life: God's Grace in Ephesians 2 Explained
All of us were born. If you are reading this right now, then you are alive. At least you are alive in the scientific sense. Some of...
Carol Plafcan
Nov 19, 20245 min read
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The Redemption of King Manasseh: No Past Too Great
Do you ever feel like you are beyond hope or that your past is so terrible that God cannot use you for His kingdom? Many of us are...
Carol Plafcan
Oct 25, 20245 min read
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Growing Weary of God? How to Restore Your Faith in Christ
How many times do we think we can manage life on our own, without God? We may not be actively thinking, "I don't need You, God," but by...
Carol Plafcan
Oct 4, 20245 min read
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The Churches at Ephesus and Pergamon: Revelation 2
Rules, rules and more rules. Christianity is often seen as just a series of boxes to check. Things to do and things not to do. In...
Carol Plafcan
Sep 24, 20246 min read
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Tax Collectors and Harlots
In Matthew 21:28-32, we have the Parable of the Two Sons. In this chapter, Jesus is teaching many things to the Pharisees. The...
Carol Plafcan
Jul 16, 20245 min read
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There Is No Difference All Have Sinned
So much focus today is on how we humans are all very different. Actually we have much more in common than we might think. Paul reminds...
Carol Plafcan
Jul 5, 20244 min read
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Esau Despised His Birthright
If you were promised a great inheritance from your father how would you treat it? An example can be found in Genesis 25, where we read...
Carol Plafcan
Jun 29, 20244 min read
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Convicted by the Holy Spirit
Charles Spurgeon wrote that at the age of 15, "... that trumpet of conviction, which aroused my soul to think of eternal things, sounded...
Carol Plafcan
Jun 25, 20244 min read
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Can Christians Still Sin?
Like many people, I sometimes tend to avoid passages in the Bible that I have trouble understanding. However, with prayerful study of...
Carol Plafcan
Jun 18, 20244 min read
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Forget What Lies Behind
Why do we regret our sins? Why do we look back with sorrow over the mistakes that we have made? Is it because we have offended God or...
Carol Plafcan
Jun 14, 20243 min read
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Our Redeemer From Everlasting
In Isaiah 63:16, Isaiah refers to God as our Father, our Redeemer from Everlasting. In the Old Testament, the meaning of redemption,...
Carol Plafcan
May 31, 20243 min read
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Come And Dine
Many times today we are reminded by people that Jesus showed love to tax collectors and sinners by eating and drinking with them. This...
Carol Plafcan
May 28, 20244 min read
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His Compassions Never Fail
How many of us have read the book of Lamentations? I have heard very few sermons on it. It is a very short book with only five chapters....
Carol Plafcan
May 24, 20244 min read
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Clothed With Christ
Going to a wedding can be a stressful event for people. What to wear? Maybe you don't own a lot of dressy clothes so what do you do?...
Carol Plafcan
May 1, 20244 min read
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What is Godly Sorrow?
"For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death." 2...
Carol Plafcan
Mar 19, 20243 min read
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We All Fail Sometimes
The faith heroes of the Bible have one thing in common. They were obedient to God. But even these great heroes were still mere men. ...
Carol Plafcan
Mar 9, 20245 min read
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Kicking Against the Goads
In telling the story of Paul's conversion Paul said that Jesus spoke to him on the road to Damascus. In Acts 26:14 Paul says that Jesus...
Carol Plafcan
Dec 19, 20234 min read
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Sacrificial Love
I heard a pastor say recently that we have confused love for people with being friends with our enemies. I thought about this a lot. ...
Carol Plafcan
Nov 24, 20233 min read
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Repairer of the Breach
Worship in Appearance Only Isaiah 58 has a strong rebuke from the Lord about worship. In this chapter God says His people appear to be...
Carol Plafcan
Nov 21, 20233 min read
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The Lord Looks at the Heart
There is a great contrast in the response of God to Saul's sin versus Davids. In I Samuel 15 we read about Saul's disobedience to a...
Carol Plafcan
Oct 9, 20233 min read
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