Salvation

  • The Gift of Gifts

    The Gift of Gifts

    Nobody ever slept much at the Townsend house in Shreveport on Christmas Eve. Dad knew he had toys and bicycles to assemble for us four kids after he and Mom finally chased us to bed with threats of getting the “spanking of our lives” if we didn’t get in the bed immediately. Mom knew she

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  • Completely Crushed!

    Completely Crushed!

    Today, we’re going to broaden the focus of our series on healing to include both our physical and our spiritual salvation. Sin and sickness have always been intertwined, since both are the result of the fall. All of mankind’s ills: sin, sickness, poverty, and death began at the fall, when Adam and Eve were separated

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  • Surely, Jesus Bore the Unbearable for Us!

    More than 700 years before Jesus was born,the prophet Isaiah, inspired and enabled by Holy Spirit saw His substitutionary suffering and death, and recorded it for us. Isaiah, seeing by the Spirit, actually understood more of what was to take place at Calvary, than Jesus’ followers, who were physically present at the cross. Even though

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  • Never Forsaken, and Forever Favored!

    People use the term “god-forsaken” to describe some place or thing that is “miserable, wretched, desolate, and hopeless.” The phrase infers “abandonment” by God. But can any person, place or thing really be forsaken by God, since He is omnipresent? Amazingly, Jesus, the Word of God, the Author of Life, testified that He had been

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  • I Will Not Leave You!

    I Will Not Leave You!

    Hebrews 13:5b, Amplified Bible, Classic Edition He, [God] Himself, has said, “I will not in any way fail you, nor give you up, nor leave you without support. [I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not in any degree, leave you helpless, nor forsake, nor let you down (relax my hold on you)! [Assuredly

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  • Radical Change

    Radical Change

    So you prayed sincerely from your heart to receive God’s love-gift, His Son, Jesus, as your Savior and Lord. At the moment you prayed that prayer, committing your life to Him, you may have had strong feelings, or a flood of emotions, or possibly, you felt nothing at all. It doesn’t matter. Feelings have nothing

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  • First…

    First…

    Do you remember when you were conceived? Of course you don’t, but Father-God does! He was right there, and He lovingly watched over you as you grew and developed in your mother’s womb. ¹³ “You formed my innermost being, shaping my delicate inside and my intricate outside, and wove them all together in my mother’s

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