Author Archives: Stephen Nielsen

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/009-1.jpg During the first few years of my painting business, from 1981 to 1985, I lived in two different places. The first was in an apartment in south Minneapolis. The thing I remember about that…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/001-2.jpg I laughed so hard at this comic. Today I ate at Perkins. It was good to finally sit down at a restaurant again. Also, I made an appointment to finally get my hair cut…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/police-de-2.jpeg There are certainly many indications today that we are living in the last days, and that we are inching closer and closer to the coming of Jesus Christ to rescue the godly ones from…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/015-2.jpg After I resigned from Seminary, and put my ministry goals on hold, I determined to look to the future. I immediately thought of starting a painting business, because I had been doing that already…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/001.jpg I am privileged to have so many nature trails very close to where I live. This place is my most recent discovery. Paved trails, as well as unpaved trails, follow very close to the…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/western-sem.jpg I was fully intending to get a Masters degree at Western, and therefore to remain there for as long as it took. However, something happened that caused me to change my mind. I was…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/black-lives-matter-o-reilly.png In a minute I will tell you what facts O’Reilly has discovered about the organization Black Lives Matter. But, at the start I just want to say that I believe in the words, “black…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/rioting-mpls.jpg The following was taken from, The O’Reilly Update Morning Edition, June 2, 2020. The three point are directly from O’Reilly, followed by my comments. PROTESTS ARE DRIVEN BY THREE GROUPS Sincere protesters. They are…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/mt-st-hellen.jpg This is this Mount Saint Helen erupting, on May 18, 1980. After I graduated from Northwestern, I very quickly started thinking about Seminary. It was my plan all along to go into some kind…

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https://studyingprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/012.jpg I keep hearing the term “white privilege.” I think some people may be suggesting that rich white people need to do more to help the poor black people, or even to somehow make it…