Author Archives: Stephen Nielsen

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/006.jpg I bought these Petunias to brighten up my apartment. My Work Lately I’ve been staying busy, more than I want to be. For some reason I have gotten a lot of calls for jobs…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/sermon-on-mt-2.jpg Matthew 7:13-14 “Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide, and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter by it. 14 “For the gate is…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/sermon-on-mt-1.jpg Beginning in Matthew 7:13 and 14 we come to the application of Jesus’ Sermon. The main part of the sermon ends at verse twelve, and here in verse thirteen Jesus begins to point to…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/joseph-pit.jpg The verse we are following today is Matthew 7:12: Therefore, however you want people to treat you, so treat them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. There are certainly tragic results of…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/sermon-on-mt.jpg In Matthew 7:12, we first encounter the word, “therefore.” Therefore, however you want people to treat you, so treat them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. NASB As a rule, that word…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/jesus-and-pharisees1.jpg This is our fourteenth study. Please click HERE for an intro to this study. Today we see how Jesus turned the tables on the Pharisees—how He tested their weak faith. Matthew 22:34-46 Hearing that…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/001.jpg I suppose we could say that each person thinks on the things that he does each day. We think about what we do, or what we plan to do, or what we hope to…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/021.jpg Just a few minutes ago I wrote a blog entitled No thoughts. But on my way home from Perkins, where I was having breakfast, I drove through a yellow arrow. I was supposed to…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/001-2.jpg I brought my writing pad and a pen to my breakfast outing, intending to write a blog post. But as it turned out, I have no thoughts. It reminds me of my earlier days…