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2025-06-27T13:13:32-04:00

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Harnessing Your Inner Storm: Overcoming Life’s Challenges

Last updated on: June 27, 2025 at 1:13 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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“Fate whispers to the warrior, ‘You cannot withstand the storm.’ The warrior whispers back, ‘I am the storm.’” — Unknown I don’t know who said it but I will always remember this quote. I think there is a principle to learn from this. What do you do when you are faced with life’s storms? What do you do with any storm? Dig in and ride it out or evacuate. But life’s storms cannot be evacuated from. You can’t just decide... Read more

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2025-06-27T13:13:34-04:00

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Reclaim Your Power: Live Free from Fear and Self-Doubt

Last updated on: June 27, 2025 at 1:13 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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Last column we discussed taking back your power. We continue in that vein on this very important subject. Don’t give your power away! Things only have the power over you that you give them. We all have the power to do what we need to do. Often, we think we don’t but that isn’t true. The Bible says let the weak say they are strong (Joel 3:10). Are you going to let life beat you down? Are you going to... Read more

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2025-06-27T13:13:36-04:00

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“If It’s Going to Be, It’s Up to Me”: Taking Back Your Power

Last updated on: June 27, 2025 at 1:13 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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Take Back Your Power! I have been through some devastating circumstances in life I can tell you. I had a bad first marriage. I was a single parent of small children. I had cancer. And I had to come to some decisions in life if I was going to survive. I had to come to a point where I did not care about what anyone thought. I know that sounds bad at first and it doesn’t mean I didn’t value... Read more

Health, Fitness and Religion

2025-06-27T13:13:37-04:00

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Temptation’s End: Breaking the Practice of Sin

Last updated on: June 27, 2025 at 1:13 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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Christ has broken the power of sin but He has not broken the PRACTICE of sin. I would like to deal with something every Christian is faced with, sometimes everyday. That something is TEMPTATION. It is inevitable. If you are born again you are a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17). Christ has broken the POWER of sin over your life (Romans 6:6-7). Sin has no power over you any longer. You are free! Your identity has been changed. You have... Read more

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2025-06-27T13:13:38-04:00

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Famine of the Word: Why We’re Spiritually Starving

Last updated on: June 27, 2025 at 1:13 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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Looking for spirituality in all the wrong places. I was just watching a report on the National Geographic channel about shamans, so-called ‘holy men’ around the world in many cultures. I watched with a broken heart as I saw them partake of marijuana and other drugs to get into a trance-like state. Some then went even farther and allowed themselves to be stung by poisonous stings of insects like wasps and such. In this trance-like state, they would claim to... Read more

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2025-06-27T13:13:39-04:00

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What Does It Mean To ‘Abide In Him’?

Last updated on: June 27, 2025 at 1:13 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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In John 15 we read: “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vine keeper (husbandman). Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit He taketh away; and every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the Word which I have spoken unto you.“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, no more... Read more

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2025-06-27T13:13:40-04:00

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How Sure Are You In What You Believe?

Last updated on: June 27, 2025 at 1:13 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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How sure are you in what you believe? John wrote these words: “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may KNOW that ye have eternal life” (1 John 5:13). Many times Christians struggle with whether they are saved because they have came up in a religious system that tries to force them to be good enough. Like being born again is not enough. They treat being born again... Read more

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2025-06-27T13:13:41-04:00

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Recognizing The Voice Of God And The Voice Of The Devil

Last updated on: June 27, 2025 at 1:13 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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There are a lot of voices out there screaming for your attention. Advertisers screaming at you from TV, radio, computer, billboards and more. Every cause in the world wants your attention, support and especially your money. Even when you try to escape and get some solitude, still, there are those voices rolling around inside your head: things you need to do, things that happened at work today, bills that need to be paid. It is an epidemic to the point... Read more

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2025-06-27T13:13:42-04:00

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But You’re Not Supposed To Judge…..Really?

Last updated on: June 27, 2025 at 1:13 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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“Judge not, that ye be not judged.” (Mathew 7:1) IS ONE OF THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD AND ABUSED SCRIPTURES IN BIBLE. Read the whole verse in context. Go ahead read it Matthew 7:1-5. It says “Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the... Read more

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2025-06-27T13:13:43-04:00

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Differences, Division and the Cure

Last updated on: June 27, 2025 at 1:13 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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You know what I wish? I wish people would just stop labeling groups and judge all people as individuals and get to know them on their own merit and consider all human beings a community with much diversity but human nonetheless. These days people not only want you to accept their lifestyle, political orientation, religious affiliation, etc…. but to also praise it. I want to love all people like Jesus did. And I will not be a part of celebrating... Read more

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