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  • 20/20 on Who? | Posted by Mart De Haan on Feb 13 2010

    Two passages of the Bible that are often used to emphasize the importance of Scripture may be doing something more.
    Example One: When, after eating no food for 40 days,  Jesus resists Satan’s temptation to turn stones into bread, he quotes Moses as saying “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that [...]

  • The Misused Name | Posted by Mart De Haan on Jan 26 2010

    One way to break down someone’s faith may be to quote Jesus’ promise that… the Father in heaven will give us any thing we ask in Jesus name (John 16:23).
    Many of us have discovered the hard way that ending our prayers “in the name of Jesus” doesn’t necessarily make a difference in whether we get [...]

  • Haiti in Crisis | Posted by Mart De Haan on Jan 14 2010

    May our God strengthen the hands of those who are going to the rescue, and may he lift to himself those who are calling out to him from the rubble.
    May the One who from his cross cried, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me” be the eternal hope of those who now cry [...]

  • So Be it… Un…resolved | Posted by Mart De Haan on Jan 04 2010

    On New Years Eve I watched a few hundred local runners brave frigid temperatures to take on a 4 mile course around our local Reeds Lake.
    They called it their Resolution Run. As we watched them warming up I wondered what “Resolution Run” meant for them.
    I say “them” because Di and I watched it all [...]

  • Giving Thanks In or For All | Posted by Mart De Haan on Nov 26 2009

    Are we to thank God for everything– or in everything?
    In Ephesians 5:20 the apostle Paul describes giving thanks for all things as one of four evidences of being controlled by the Spirit of God. By contrast to being under in influence of alcohol, Paul describes those who are filled with the Spirit as:

    Speaking to one [...]

  • Praying Like a Broken Record | Posted by Mart De Haan on Jul 06 2009

    Looking back, it seems that life is full of answered and unanswered prayers.
    It’s clear that, as a wise Father who for our good thinks in ways far beyond our ability, our God has every right and responsibility to say “Yes,” “No,” or “Not Yet.”
    But how, as we live with unanswered requests, can we express our [...]

  • In the Name of Jesus | Posted by Mart De Haan on Jun 17 2009

    In the public trauma of 911, religious leaders gathered for an interfaith public prayer service. While Muslim clerics prayed for the United States in the name of Allah, some Christian leaders did not begin or end their prayers in the name of Jesus.
    I remember a well known author and pastor who, in a 2002 college [...]

  • Keeping Secrets With God! | Posted by Mart De Haan on May 23 2009

    Go public with faith-based actions. Hide them. Which is it supposed to be?
    Jesus taught his disciples to do both:

    To go public with the good that they did.
    To keep their good actions as a secret between themselves and God.

    How are we supposed to sort that out?
    In the Lord’s Sermon on the Mount he first taught his [...]

  • The Lord’s Prayer and the Devil | Posted by Mart De Haan on May 10 2009

    Paul’s strategy for spiritual battle ends with a call to intercede for one another in prayer (Eph 6:18).
    It’s a humbling thought… to realize that we are dependent not only on God, but on each another-even to the point that, while being accountable for our wrong thoughts and choices, we cannot take credit for the best [...]

  • Passover Inventory | Posted by Mart De Haan on Apr 05 2009

    My computer went down yesterday. Tried to fix it myself. Made things worse. Now can’t even boot it up. Am hoping I didn’t lose a bunch of photos and articles I haven’t backed up. Using my wife’s now just to stay in touch.
    Real smart. Wasn’t doing back-ups. Then too impatient to wait a couple of [...]

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