Mike Shreve
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5 Reasons I No Longer Pray the Rosary
Growing up as a fervent Catholic, I prayed the rosary often. In fact, I still have my original rosary in a shadow box with a picture of me in my altar boy cassock. During those formative years, running my fingers over the crucifix and 59 beads while repeating the assigned prayers was an often-recurring part …
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3 Days of Darkness and Deception Disguised as Religious Holidays
Most Bible believers are familiar with the ninth plague that fell on Egypt right before Israel’s exodus. God commanded Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, darkness which may even be felt,” (Exod. 10:21). It happened! The darkness was so intense, the Egyptians never left …
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Biblical Symbolism Behind the 4th of July
One of the most amazing facts about the Founding Fathers is this–the one referred to as the “voice” of the revolution (John Adams) and the one referred to as the “pen” of the revolution (Thomas Jefferson) both died on the same day, July 4, 1826, exactly 50 years from the formation of the United States …
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Miraculous Divine Intervention Birthed by Thanksgiving and Praise
Read Time: 4 Minutes 2 Seconds When I first became a believer in 1970, my mother was one of my first “converts,” giving her heart to Jesus as soon as I shared with her the beauty, the power and the opportunity of making Jesus the Lord of her life. However, my father was quite the …
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Praying the Lord’s Prayer Creatively
Read Time: 4 Minutes 38 Seconds In His much-quoted “Sermon on the Mount,” Jesus gave the following beloved prayer to the church. Imagine the profoundness of such an impartation: God Himself—incarnate—teaching His offspring how to pray just so He can graciously respond. How intense is that! If He told us what to pray, surely, He …
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The United States: Birthed in Prophetic Symbolism
One of the most amazing facts about the Founding Fathers of our nation is this: The one referred to as the “voice” of the revolution (John Adams) and the one referred to as the “pen” of the revolution (Thomas Jefferson) both died on the same day—July 4, 1826—exactly 50 years after the formation of the …
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