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Parables: The Persistent Widow and the Wicked Judge

  Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea...

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Why Try: Does God Still Love Me?

  If God is for us, who can be against us? Romans 8:31 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, give us all thi...

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Why Try: What Good Can God Bring From My Pain?

  Now if we are children, then we are heirs-heirs of God and coheirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. Romans 8:17 ...

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How To Pray When God Feels Silent

  My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest. Psalm 22:1–2 ...

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God's Not Dead

  The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is h...

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Why Try: Why Do I Have Such a Hard Time Trusting God?

  I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. Romans 7:15 Thanks be to God he gives us victory through Christ Jesus our Lord! ...

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Why Try: Why Can’t I Give God Control of My Life?

  I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. Romans 7:15 Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! Romans 7:25 ...

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Why Try: Will I Ever Change?

  I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. Romans 7:15 Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! Romans 7:25 ...

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Why Try: Is there any hope for me?

  I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. Romans 7:15 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Rom...

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Every Last Drop: Love God with All of Your Mind

  “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. Love the Lord your God with... all your mind.” Mark 12:30 ...

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