I am in the process of listening to the audio recordings from Youth Bible School 2006 in Ephrata, PA. Very challenging messages from the various speakers: Ross Ulrich, Dale Gish, Dean Taylor (editor of The Remnant magazine), Jerry Mawhorr, Patrick Waldner (Manitoba, Canada), and David Cooper. I have been greatly influenced to examine my own [...]
Posted on November 24th, 2006 by Josh Champagne
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Interesting post by Byron Smucker. I read his blog on occasion. One day I’m walking on campus after a class and I happen upon a crowd of people surrounding a man with a red shirt, upon which is printed something like “No homos will go to heaven.” Not too long after that I was walking [...]
Posted on October 21st, 2006 by Josh Champagne
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I’ve been thinking recently on the topic of using our talents for the Lord. Reason being, I help to teach our church’s Sunday School class, and that’s what the most recent lesson was about, taken from the Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25:14-30. Some questions I was asking myself, (a few of these were [...]
Posted on June 27th, 2006 by Josh Champagne
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Matthew 17: 15 Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water. 16 And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him. 17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long [...]
Posted on June 15th, 2006 by Josh Champagne
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Solomon in the Bible tells us that without vision we perish. Vision motivates us to go forward in life. It gives us purpose for living. My physical vision is less than perfect, which is why I happen to wear glasses. In life our vision can become blurred also, by circumstances, events, wrong thinking, feelings etcetera. [...]
Posted on July 8th, 2005 by Josh Champagne
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