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2025-09-11T11:12:53-04:00

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God, the Devil, or You: How to Know Who Is Speaking

Last updated on: September 11, 2025 at 11:12 am 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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2025-09-03T15:37:21-04:00

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Holy Bible: A Book Like No Other

Last updated on: September 3, 2025 at 3:37 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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If you are going to get anywhere in this spiritual walk, you must be convinced that The Holy Bible is THE Word of God. There must be a standard, a measuring stick to judge all other so-called holy books and words from the mouths of those who claim to be the oracle of God; otherwise, we are left to the mercy of every whim of anyone who claims to be the mouthpiece of God. Many of the wars past and... Read more

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2025-08-27T11:50:05-04:00

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Not a Better You, But a New You: True Transformation

Last updated on: August 27, 2025 at 11:50 am By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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Have you ever been to a fair or a carnival where people running booths were screaming at you, ‘Step right up…’ trying to convince you to come and try their game or product? Maybe you even got reeled in and tried a game and won some cheap Kewpie doll and walked away proud of your accomplishment. Sometimes I think that is the way it is with religion. People from various religions are just trying to convince you that their religion... Read more

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2025-08-20T16:37:31-04:00

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Beyond Performance: The Freedom of a Grace-Filled Life

Last updated on: August 20, 2025 at 4:37 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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So, what does living by Grace look like? Put simply it is being God conscious instead of sin conscious. Jesus conscious instead of devil conscious. Grace conscious instead of performance conscious. Many Christians are constantly walking around reminding themselves of their sins, condemning themselves, beating themselves up. Others are in this constant mode of whether they are good enough, wondering if they offended God today. There is only one cure for this and only one way to be truly free.... Read more

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2025-08-14T11:50:14-04:00

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From Law to Grace: The Journey to True Freedom in Christ

Last updated on: August 14, 2025 at 11:50 am By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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I am going to share some truths with you that absolutely revolutionized my walk with Christ in this study. First of all, though, let me share with you some of my early experiences with God. My impression of God, most of my life, even before I was born again, was that of an angry God. A God that demanded obedience, while at the same time was just waiting for me to mess up so He could send judgment on me... Read more

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2025-08-07T15:51:58-04:00

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Grace: God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense

Last updated on: August 7, 2025 at 3:51 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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Grace. G.R.A.C.E. can stand for God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense. That is pretty accurate. Living by grace is living out the fact that it is all about Jesus and what He accomplished. It is about resting in who He is and not trying to reinvent the wheel, so to speak. It is about living out what He accomplished. It is about stopping trying to do it ourselves. It is about living out the fact that what Christ accomplished was good... Read more

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2025-07-31T12:46:34-04:00

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Our Role in God’s Grand Design

Last updated on: July 31, 2025 at 12:46 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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Does God Even Need Us? Why doesn’t God just take care of things for himself? Why does he involve us at all? Have you ever thought about that? I mean, he is God and is all sufficient, so he doesn’t really need us. He didn’t create humans because he was lonely. He is God. He doesn’t get lonely. He can speak worlds into existence and destroy them with a word but yet he puts up with us puny humans. Now,... Read more

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2025-07-25T20:10:26-04:00

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The Art of Being A Friend: Reason, Season, or Lifetime

Last updated on: July 25, 2025 at 8:10 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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“People are in your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.” I don’t remember if I read this on a greeting card, a meme or what, but it has really stuck with me and helped me understand so much. For most of my younger life I wandered around wondering why friends I thought would be friends for life were no longer there for me. I had this idea in my head that if someone was truly a friend,... Read more

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2025-07-16T14:10:59-04:00

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Deep Calls to Deep: A Journey into Spiritual Growth

Last updated on: July 16, 2025 at 2:10 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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It is written in John 7:37-38 “In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.” What Is Your Innermost Being? How Deep Are You? For those who don’t know, the scriptures in the New Testament were originally written in Greek. The word used... Read more

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2025-07-11T15:29:57-04:00

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Is Christianity Too Hard… Or Are We Making It That Way?

Last updated on: July 11, 2025 at 3:29 pm By Benjamin Raven Pressley

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The Bidding For Your Soul All of my life, I have observed how many religious institutions have kept Christ just out of the reach of people. Preachers scream out His name from the pulpit, followed by ‘Just As I Am,’ and people come to the altar. Jesus gloriously saves all who come. Then the bidding for your soul begins. “Yes, you are saved”, they say, “but now you gotta…” And then it begins. I have been there, done that and... Read more

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