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Carol Plafcan
Sep 27, 20247 min read
God's Creation Praises and Obeys: the Animals
All of God's creation will praise Him. Everything that has breath will cry out. They will praise Him for His power, His glory, and His...
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Carol Plafcan
Sep 24, 20246 min read
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...
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Carol Plafcan
Sep 6, 20244 min read
Wisdom's Call: Choosing Christ as the Foundation of Life
What is the foundation of your life? The Bible tells us that a wise man builds his house on solid rock while a foolish man builds his...
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Carol Plafcan
Aug 7, 20244 min read
Take Up Your Cross
Imagine attending a sermon that begins with the statement, "To follow Jesus means you have to take a lethal injection." This shocking...
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Carol Plafcan
Jul 22, 20244 min read
Fan Into Flame the Gift of God
As Christians we are called a living sacrifice to God (Romans 12:1). To be a living sacrifice means to offer ourselves completely to God....
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Carol Plafcan
Jul 19, 20244 min read
Rivers of Living Water
When I was a child we sang an old hymn called, "Make Me a Channel of Blessing". Part of the song goes like this, Is your life a channel...
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Carol Plafcan
Jul 16, 20245 min read
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...
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Carol Plafcan
Jul 12, 20245 min read
The Diligent Christian
Work, effort, persistence, endurance, discipline are all words that don't necessarily sound like much fun. They are all wrapped up in...
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Carol Plafcan
Jun 29, 20244 min read
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...
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Carol Plafcan
Jun 18, 20244 min read
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...
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Carol Plafcan
Jun 7, 20245 min read
He Finds It Empty
Have you read any self-help books lately? In 2019 over 40 million self-help books were sold in the United States. Apparently, a lot of...
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Carol Plafcan
May 17, 20243 min read
Put On The New Man
The Bible explains to us in Ephesians 4:17 that while we were lost and in the world (Gentiles), we operated in the "futility of our...
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Carol Plafcan
May 1, 20244 min read
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?...
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Carol Plafcan
Apr 23, 20244 min read
Christ Our Passover
Passover, one of the greatest of all Jewish holidays, is a time of remembrance when the angel of death passed over the Jewish firstborn...
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Carol Plafcan
Mar 22, 20244 min read
What Does God Expect?
What Does God Expect? What is God's expectation for us as Christians? What is it we should be doing? According to our Lord we should be...
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Carol Plafcan
Mar 5, 20244 min read
Loyal to God: 2 Chronicles 14-16
To whom are we loyal? We look for happiness and joy in personal relationships, in our jobs, in money, in what we do in our free time and...
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Carol Plafcan
Feb 9, 20244 min read
A Stranger in the Earth
Have you ever had the experience of being somewhere very different, very strange. Someplace where you just simply didn't fit in? Maybe...
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Carol Plafcan
Jan 19, 20243 min read
Obedience and the Way of Truth
Legalism. This word is defined by dictionary.com as dependence on moral law rather than on personal religious faith. When you stress...
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Carol Plafcan
Dec 5, 20233 min read
A Vessel for Honor
The Apostle Peter was convinced that the end of the world was close at hand (1 Peter 4:7). This belief was also seen in James 5:7-8 and 1...
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Carol Plafcan
Sep 26, 20234 min read
Imitators of God: Ephesians 5:1
We don't have to do life alone. Our lives are a work in progress. We progress towards becoming more like Christ. Like the child...
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