Semper Fi

The loss of our Marines, Army soldiers, and a Navy Corpsman in Afghanistan hits hard. I remember the day we lost two Marines in the early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom. We had only been in-country a couple of days. Encamped near a tributary of the Euphrates River, our Marines...

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Lord, Teach Us To Pray

While in seminary, we had a prayer journal that was developed by the ministry of Dr. Howard Hendricks. We have a VBC prayer journal available to all that was patterned after this now out-of-print prayer tool. It was invaluable to us because, by it, we learned to pray daily and...

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Defeating Disunity

If Jesus prayed for unity among all His followers, why do we sometimes have disunity? To be sure, all of us have had either a severely damaged or broken relationship with another Christian. Does that mean Jesus’ prayer was unanswered? In John 17, Jesus prayed that all who would believe...

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