Bart Warren

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What Nebuchadnezzar Teaches Us About God

Nebuchadnezzar was one of the most influential foreign kings in the biblical record. In world history, he was known as one of the greatest kings to ever live. Holy Scripture speaks of him in human terms as the “king of kings” (Dan. 2:37; 4:1; Ezek. 26:7). He is known to us as a man who …

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Made for Another World

C.S. Lewis once wrote: If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world. We know that we were made for another world. Scripture teaches it. Our own experience testifies to it. The Psalmist wrote: As a deer pants …

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Confidence

Are you a confident person? Often people are confident in their abilities, talents, intellect, etc. It is also the case that sometimes we have no confidence in ourselves and are afraid to step up or speak out (some deal with this more than others). The good news is, we don’t have to be confident in …

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The Best Is Yet To Come!

We know we need some good news. In fact, we need as much good news as we can get! With 2020 behind us, we are desperate now to be told that something good, something better and brighter is on the way. Well…it is! But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, …

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The End of the Matter

Stephen Covey famously suggested that one of the habits of highly effective people is that they “begin with the end in mind.” I was thinking of that phrase recently while studying the book of Ecclesiastes at the very time that we have started a brand new year. Seeing that this is January of 2021, it …

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What A Year

What a year this has been! We have seen a lot and been through even more. To put it mildly, 2020 has been a challenge. Yet, here we are, ready to begin something brand new…a new year that has the potential to special. But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The …

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Finding Favor

Numerous times in Scripture we read about godly men and women who “find favor” in the sight of God and the people around them. It seems to be a common characteristic. For example: · Esther is described again and again as one who won favor in the sight of the king and his subordinates (2:9, …

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Suffering but not Forgotten

The book of Job provides valuable insight into numerous areas of our lives. For one, we learn that genuine struggle and suffering does not mean we have been forgotten by God. Job struggled with these feelings: “Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?” (13:24) He felt forgotten. It was as …

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The Power of God’s Word

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. (Heb. 4:12) Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with the meekness the implanted word, …

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If The Doors Are Blocked….

Mark chapter 2 (as well as Matthew 9 and Luke 5), records the time that Jesus Christ healed a paralyzed man—one who had to be carried by his friends. The report begins by telling us that Jesus was wildly popular at this particular time: “And many were gathered together, so that there was no more …

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