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Ben Gates
- Sep 4
- 4 min
Some Thoughts on Social Media and Friendship
"I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for...
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Ben Gates
- Jul 30
- 5 min
The Powerful Intimacy of Meeting Jesus
"On one of these journeys I was going to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests. About noon, King Agrippa, as I...
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Ben Gates
- Jul 15
- 5 min
Praying as Trouble Closes In
"Incline Your ear, Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, Lord, and see" --2 Kings 19:16 Perhaps you have had a moment or two in your life when...
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Ben Gates
- Jun 24
- 7 min
A God Who is Not Silent
"The Lord came and stood there, calling as at the other times, 'Samuel! Samuel!' Then Samuel said, 'Speak, for your servant is...
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Ben Gates
- May 27
- 4 min
Don't Waste Your Sorrows
"Suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope." --Romans 5:3-4 This is Memorial Day weekend; this...
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Ben Gates
- May 13
- 5 min
A Mother's Day Tribute
"Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised" --Proverbs 31:30 Well, I've not been a...
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Ben Gates
- Mar 28
- 5 min
Will Animals be in Heaven?
"The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little...
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Ben Gates
- Mar 11
- 4 min
Growing in the Fruit of the Holy Spirit
"The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such...
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Ben Gates
- Mar 4
- 5 min
What Should I Know about the Gifts of the Holy Spirit?
Pentecost Mosaic, Holger Schue, 1500. "Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. All of these are the...
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Ben Gates
- Feb 5
- 5 min
What Does the Holy Spirit Do?
"You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and...
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Ben Gates
- Jan 22
- 5 min
Who is the Holy Spirit?
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Dove of the Holy Spirit, circa 1660, stained glass, Throne of St. Peter, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican, Italy. And...
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Ben Gates
- Dec 24, 2022
- 6 min
One Last Wish at Christmas
Simeon in the Temple, Dutch artist Rembrandt, oil on canvas, c. 1669, National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. Simeon took him in his arms and...
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Ben Gates
- Dec 14, 2022
- 6 min
A Disturbing Group of Star-Gazing Gift-Bearers
"The Adoration of the Magi," 1304-1306, Fresco painted by Giotto in the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, Italy. “After Jesus was born in...
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Ben Gates
- Nov 27, 2022
- 4 min
Jesus Moved into the Neighborhood
"The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the...
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Ben Gates
- Oct 22, 2022
- 4 min
The Song of the Mountains
The Mourne Mountains, Newry-Annalong, Northern Ireland--C.S. Lewis' inspiration for his fictional land of Narnia. (2018) “You will go...
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Ben Gates
- Sep 25, 2022
- 5 min
Hearing God on the Mountaintop
“The Lord said, ‘Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.’ Then a great and...
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Ben Gates
- Sep 19, 2022
- 5 min
The Mount Carmel Showdown
“Elijah then came near to all the people, and said, ‘How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the Lord is God,...
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Ben Gates
- Sep 3, 2022
- 6 min
The Glory of Jesus, High and Lifted Up
“After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There he...
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Ben Gates
- Aug 25, 2022
- 5 min
The Tragedy on Mount Gilboa
Beivushtang at the English-language Wikipedia “They cut off (Saul’s) head and stripped off his armor . . . They put his armor in the...
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Ben Gates
- Aug 13, 2022
- 5 min
The Value of Self-Doubt
“But Moses said to God, ‘Who am I that I should go to Pharoah and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?’” --Exodus 3:11 I just did a...
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