Carl Lance

Getting Closer

Perhaps you have seen the idealized picture of the elderly couple walking hand-in-hand with their faces lit up with gentle but telling smiles. Looking at them we can’t tell how they got to that point. In these times of short relationships, we focus on this “happy ever after” scene and hope to be like that […]

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Worthy To Be Praised

The news is filled with “important people” these days. Celebrities, politicians, the wealthy, and accomplished are pushed into the headlines. Some flaw or mistake is pounced on and crafted into glaring headlines, designed to draw our attention. A talented actor is dumping his mate, or a beautiful model enters rehab, and a politician is “caught”

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Thank GOD I Am Here

“Here” is hard to describe because it is “exceedingly abundantly above all we could ask or even think”. To get an idea, think Garden of Eden, plus the most beautiful place you have ever seen; add a wonderful celebration where everyone is so ecstatically happy, they don’t notice how nice the place is! Even my

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A Believer In Hell

How could this have happened? I knew it would happen to sinners, but I believed. I‘ve always believed in GOD, Heaven and Hell. I believed in Hell, but even my belief didn’t come close to the horror of this place. The never-ending agony that covers every inch of my body is something I couldn’t have

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Same GOD

We were having a discussion with our Associate Pastor, and he compared King Saul and David and how neither were perfect, but GOD called King David “a man after mine own heart” (Act 13:22 KJV). How could that be after he committed adultery and murdered to cover it up? He messed up again and again

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