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2025-11-26T14:42:03-05:00

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Are We Living Life Upside Down? Awakening From The Matrix

Last updated on: November 26, 2025 at 2:42 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Of course, our human experience is the ‘elephant in the room’, the thing screaming the loudest at us to do something about. Sometimes it is like the baby that cries all the time and refuses to be ignored. The human experience certainly should not be ignored. We have to take care of our bodies and minds, or we could... Read more

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2025-11-12T15:30:05-05:00

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How Relevant Is God to You? Beyond the Sunday Wind-Up

Last updated on: November 12, 2025 at 3:30 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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How relevant is God to you? Is he just a religious figure? Is he just something you pull down from the shelf and wind up on Sundays? Or is He a “quick-sand Jesus”, where you call out to him when you get in trouble and you don’t have anywhere else to turn? In some ways, I’m sure it’s difficult for some people because God doesn’t usually appear in a tangible form. He did back in the Old Testament days, and... Read more

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2025-11-07T11:47:33-05:00

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What Is Meant By An Answer To Prayer?

Last updated on: November 7, 2025 at 11:47 am By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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I think first of all, we should consider what is meant by an answer to prayer. Answered prayer is not just getting what you asked for, but He will give you an answer to your prayer if you earnestly seek Him for an answer. Name it, Claim it? Satan has successfully accomplished what man cannot by crossing all denominational barriers by sneaking false doctrines into many churches everywhere that focus on pleasing self and its needs rather than on pleasing... Read more

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2025-11-03T10:15:17-05:00

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The Truth About Angels

Last updated on: November 3, 2025 at 10:15 am By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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The closer it gets to Christmas, the more we will see artwork and scenes of beautiful angels. Artwork usually depicts them as cute little baby angels or powerful, robed, winged beings. But you may be surprised at some of the biblical descriptions of angels. Some are pretty terrifying. One incident in the Bible describes one “destroying angel” as an entity sent by God to carry out judgment, including instances where it killed large numbers of people, such as 185,000 Assyrians... Read more

2025-10-28T12:54:17-04:00

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Drawing Closer: Your Journey to Intimate Fellowship with God

Last updated on: October 28, 2025 at 12:54 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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So, how do you really get to know God intimately anyhow? I mean, you can’t really look Him in the eye or feel His touch, can you? I believe you can. Not in a literal, physical sense, but in much deeper terms than you can ever experience in any human relationship. Even on the human level, aren’t there certain people whose touch goes beyond the physical contact of their touch? Aren’t there some people who, when they look into your... Read more

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2025-10-21T16:56:26-04:00

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Winning the Battle for Your Soul With the Whole Armor of God

Last updated on: October 21, 2025 at 4:56 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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There is a battle going on for our souls. We have an enemy that knows how to manipulate our minds and choices and is intent upon defeating us in this life and keeping us from having eternal life in heaven when we die. But the good news is he is a liar and a defeated foe who cannot force us to do anything. What is going to win the battle is realizing we are in a spiritual battle and fighting... Read more

2025-10-09T09:50:36-04:00

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From Starter Faith to Spiritual Warrior

Last updated on: October 9, 2025 at 9:50 am By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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I think most people, when they think about faith, think of it being a religious thing and often use the word as a noun, as in “My faith is such and such church”. But faith is so much more. You need not even be part of a certain religion to have faith. Faith is certainly spoken of and defined in various ways among many religions and most consider it integral and vital to their belief system. But faith is so... Read more

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2025-10-09T09:46:20-04:00

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The Divisiveness of Truth

Last updated on: October 9, 2025 at 9:46 am By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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Defining truth, you would think, would be pretty straightforward. I mean, a thing is either true or false, right? And it is that simple in elementary level terms, but when it comes to things like philosophy, art, theology, law, and science, it can become very confusing. Truth, to me, is a divine concept. Truth is what God the Creator says it is. But even then, humans over time have even twisted that by creating this god and that god and... Read more

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2025-09-24T11:55:50-04:00

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Seeking His Presence: Why Prayer is More Than a Wish List

Last updated on: September 24, 2025 at 11:55 am By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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Prayer’s most basic definition is talking to God. But, ah, it is so much deeper than anything human beings can define. Prayer is the very lifeblood of the Christian, but is sadly the least emphasized or it is taught as just a way to get something from God. As blood is to the body, prayer is to the spiritual man. It carries away impurities, fights spiritual diseases and furnishes oxygen to our spiritual minds. Prayer tears down walls between you... Read more

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2025-09-18T11:16:06-04:00

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The End That Never Was: A History of Doomsday Predictions

Last updated on: September 18, 2025 at 11:16 am By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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History is filled with predictions of the end of the world, or doomsday prophecies, that have come and gone without incident. These predictions have been based on religious texts, astrological events, numerology, and even scientific theories. Every year it is the same. Someone will inevitably predict the end of the world. REM made light of this in a comical song they recorded called The End of the World As We Know It. In fact, here it is in September of... Read more

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