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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/030.jpg Out for a walk on a warm Autumn day. Cold days ahead. https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/031.jpg https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/019.jpg Multiple trees in the low lands. https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/020.jpg

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/macarthur.jpg In this video, https://video.foxnews.com/v/6199606162001#sp=news-clips, John MacArthur, a popular California pastor, points our that the rate of covid-19 infection in California, at .000015%, is ridiculously low and not a reason to call off church. He…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/identity-pol.png You may not be too familiar with this term. I wasn’t, until I read Sean Hannity’s book, Live Free or Die. Let me just reflect on what he wrote about identity politics. He said,…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/022.jpg I don’t know much about cloud formations, but this sure looks like little cotton balls in the sky. God sure is imaginative. https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/027.jpg What a glorious sight! https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/028.jpg A beautiful evening sky. https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/040.jpg Amazing…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sermon-on-mt-1-1.jpg After writing my last blog post on Overtaxing the Rich, I began thinking about what Jesus would do. So here it is… In Luke 19:11-26 Jesus teaches His disciples about His kingdom in a…

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? https://youtu.be/_yXINN1tD54 ? As you will see in this video, over-taxing the rich is always a bad idea. I think it is basically the government stealing money from the hard working businessman. Most of those…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sermon-on-mt-1.jpg And if you greet your brothers only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same (Matt. 5:47)? Jesus, in this verse, in the context of verses 44…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/001-1.jpg Headed toward the creek on a beautiful winding trail. https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/002-1.jpg Swamp lands next to the creek are beautiful to look at, especially at this time of year. https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/003-1.jpg https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/004-1.jpg On the bridge looking down…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/011-2.jpg This grey (or green) heron was spotted gazing in this little creek. https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/013-2.jpg https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/005-2.jpg I haven’t seen too many Monarch butterflies this year, so I was delighted to see this one. https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/008-2.jpg The butterfly…