Archive for October, 2017
By jasonmaddox On October 24th, 2017
by Rev. Tom Gray Anger is rarely a positive emotion. It is possible to have righteous anger, but I feel that most of my anger comes out of selfish responses. Anger is usually a quick response, unthought, to what annoys us. The Bible gives serious warning about it. “But now you must rid yourselves of…
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By jasonmaddox On October 23rd, 2017
by Rev. Tom Gray We tend to think of peace as the absence of war. Certainly, by some definitions that can be true but the Christian understanding of peace is not just the temporary absence of conflict. Peace for a believer is not the absence of conflict, but a state of relationship with God through…
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By jasonmaddox On October 12th, 2017
by Rev. Tom Gray David’s deep relationship with God strengthened and uplifted him even in the hardest of times. One of the most beautiful of his Psalms begins, As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When…
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By jasonmaddox On October 10th, 2017
by Rev. Tom Gray Throughout my ministry I was active in counseling families following a suicide. I had experience with this in my own extended family with specific training to help others. I worked with local police, to be sure that I could be ready as soon as possible to counsel survivors. But every…
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