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Wilderness Lessons - Lesson 4

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Lesson 4: God gives us just enough. My first funeral that I ever officiated took place in a funeral home. The podium was under a set of pink lights. Those lights combined with my contact lens to make the pages of my worship book and Bible appear blank to me. So, I had to do everything from...

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Wilderness Lessons - Lesson 3

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The Wilderness is a place of preparation.  Most of us are aware that God took the freed Hebrew slaves to the Promised Land by way of the wilderness. The trip from Egypt to Canaan was normally an eleven day journey but it took forty years! Why the long route? One could argue that this...

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Wilderness Lessons - Lesson 2

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Lesson 2: The wilderness is a place of intimacy with God. Though many people often point to the violence found in the Old Testament, I believe that at its core it is a love story. The love story is between God and the people of ancient Israel. It describes a marital relationship (This is...

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