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Acts 4:31 After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly. And the place was shaken...WOW We all need these moments of transfiguration. Times when God makes an appearance leaving no doubt that you are where you're supposed to be doing exactly what is pleasing to Him. God moments...! They happen every day. All day. In big and small ways. The small moments may bring a smile. The huge bring tears. We can fathom only handfuls of the mountainous otherwise we look only for big and miss the multitude of God moments happening all around us. One of those gigantic events happened Sunday. Over 50 of us were jammed into the small hospice room of our beloved LIFE group teacher of 25 years. Cancer had left him unable to communicate. Final days of life's struggle are approaching. Lynn's request for Keith was to have his class meet by his bed, on Easter Sunday, a

Matthew 26:41 "Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." I enjoyed driving my kids to school every morning. There were many traditions that went along with the short ride every day. We looked for different animals, talked about "daddy" stuff, and most importantly we prayed. One morning Stephen was telling about a problem he was having with his anger towards another kid. I remember giving him the pastoral answer, "pray about it son." He quickly replied, "I do pray daddy but I still blurt out mean things." I thought about his answer for a second and I said, "well Stephen, you can't just pray and then forget about it, you've got to...you've got to..." "Watch daddy," he said. "Yea son, that's right. You've got to watch & pray" I'm not positive that's what Jesus meant but I believe it's real cl

Many of us go around wanting something supernatural and spiritual to occur in our lives, but often ignore the things that make it possible; God, His word, and prayer. Listen to this testimony I heard recently of the word of God and it's miracle transforming power. The testimony was about Korea and how the life and death of early Christian martyrs still impact that country today. Nearly a century ago a Christian missionary transporting bibles to remote areas was traveling the countryside when he was attacked and murdered. The robbers stripped the missionary of all his clothes and belongings. When they found copies of Gods word, one of them said, "look at this book with all these nice pages. I think I will use this to wallpaper my house," and that's what he did. He used the fine pages of the word and lined his entire hut. Little did he know that as he lay upon his bed at night, "the walls began to speak!" From reading the wallpa