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I was flabbergasted and a little shook up. About four years ago, as I progressed through the book I Kissed Dating Goodbye, I was flabbergasted that couples existed who waited to kiss until their wedding day and shook up because, if God commanded this, then I had already blown my chance over a high school romance. Even still, something was not sitting right with me about this premise. So I went to my pastor. We sat in his office and talked for a solid hour about the purpose of this book and the thoughts it advocated on dating. I still…

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The Bible is full of wisdom, but it is often misquoted and misunderstood. Readers and carriers of the message often hear particular verses and passages in ways they were not intended to be heard. While the Bible is often quoted, it is just as often misquoted. The problem comes when people turn God’s word into a collection of quotes and one-liners without paying attention to the context of the verse, or the history behind the text. Nothing’s wrong with connecting with a specific line of Scripture, but it’s important that you know what the verse really means, particularly if you…

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Have you ever experienced praying to the Lord and then having to spend a long time waiting for His reply? Worse, it’s as if He never listens and everything just seems to ‘hang?’ If you say yes, this article is for you. I once experienced my laptop freezing in the middle of writing some articles. Boy, I tell you that if your computer gets stuck when you’re in the middle of your job you’ll be very frustrated. You get irritated and impatient, even probably tempted to manually restart your computer by pressing the reset or power button. It was during…

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