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The MPC Podcast
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Lent 2026 Day 40: Embracing the Fast Life – Embracing The Way Of The Cross – Deacon Edward Mcfadden And Elder Linda Mcfadden
Scripture: MATTHEW 21:6–1 Contributors: DEACON EDWARD AND ELDER LINDA MCFADDEN EMBRACING THE WAY OF THE CROSS “THE DISCIPLES WENT AND DID AS JESUS HAD INSTRUCTED THEM. THEY BROUGHT THE DONKEY AND THE COLT AND PLACED THEIR CLOAKS ON THEM FOR JESUS TO SIT ON. A VERY LARGE CROWD SPREAD THEIR CLOAKS…
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Lent 2026 Day 39: Embracing the Fast Life – Dying To Live – Beth Long Salaguinto
Scripture: John 12:23–26 Contributor: BETH SALAGUINTO DYING TO LIVE 23 Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24 Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. 25...
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Lent 2026 Day 38: Embracing the Fast Life – Restored Trust - Embracing Surrender And Repentance – Deacon Cletta Rochester Duckett
Scripture: Isaiah: 30:15 Contributor: DEACON CLETTA ROCHESTER-DUCKETT EMBRACING SURRENDER AND REPENTANCE This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One-of Israel says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation, In quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it. Isaiah: 30:15...
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Lent 2026 Day 37: Embracing the Fast Life – Embracing A Spirit Of Trust: Moving From Fear To Faith – Deacon Catherine Beasley
Scripture: Proverbs 3:5-6 Contributor: DEACON CATHERINE BEASLEY EMBRACING A SPIRIT OF TRUST: MOVING FROM FEAR TO FAITH “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)…
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Lent 2026 Day 36: Embracing the Fast Life – An Invitation To Surrender – Elder Ellashia M. Spaulding
Scripture: Ezekiel 36:26-27 Contributor: ELDER ELLASHIA SPAULDING AN INVITATION TO SURRENDER Scripture: “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my...
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Lent 2026 Day 35: Embracing the Fast Life – Resurrection Hope – Deacon Ketia Brown
Scripture: John 20: 19-22 Contributor: DEACON KETIA BROWN RESURRECTION HOPE On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” After he said this, he...
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Lent 2026 Day 34: Embracing the Fast Life – Guidance, Abundance, Protection And Restoration – Deacon Susan Groeneveldt
Scripture: Psalm 23 Contributor: DEACON SUSAN GROENEVELDT GUIDANCE, ABUNDANCE, PROTECTION AND RESTORATION 1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. 3 He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness…
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Lent 2026 Day 33: Embracing the Fast Life – Fasting With Purpose – Eld. Rev. Dennis Hendreson
Contributor: REV. DENNIS HENDERSON Scripture: Esther 4:15-16 (NKJV) Fasting with Purpose Queen Esther realized that her life and the lives of her people, the Jews, were in great danger. At the prodding and plotting of Haman, a wicked official in the king’s court, King Ahasuerus had issued a…
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Lent 2026 Day 32: Embracing the Fast Life – Speak Up And Take Action! – Elder Elaine Hinds
Scripture: Proverbs 31:8–9 Contributor: ELDER ELAINE HINDS SPEAK UP AND TAKE ACTION! “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.” Proverbs 31:8–9 (NIV) My Brothers and Sisters in...
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Lent 2026 Day 31: Embracing the Fast Life – Embracing Sacrificial Love – Elder Ian Francis
Scripture: Mark 8:34-35 Contributor: ELDER IAN ANDERSON REID FRANCIS, SR. EMBRACING SACRIFICIAL LOVE “He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their…
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Lent 2026 Day 30: Embracing the Fast Life – Embracing Renewal And Growth - A Journey – Elder Ivan O'Connor
Scripture: Psalms 119:67-72 Contributor: ELDER IVAN O’CONNOR EMBRACING RENEWAL AND GROWTH I used to wander off until you disciplined me; but now I closely follow your word. You are good and do only good; teach me your decrees. Arrogant people smear me with lies, but in truth I obey your...
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Lent 2026 Day 29: Embracing the Fast Life – Embracing Sacrificial Love - What Love Looks Like – Sis. Donnette Williams
Scripture: Philippians 2:5–11 Contributor: SIS. DONNETTE WILLIAMS EMBRACING SACRIFICIAL LOVE Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a…
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Lent 2026 Day 28: Embracing the Fast Life – Embracing The Way Of The Cross – Bro. Anthony Lucky
Scripture: Isaiah 53:1-12 (NIV) Contributor: ANTHONY LUCKY EMBRACING THE WAY OF THE CROSS Scripture Verse: Isaiah 53:1-12 (NIV) Centuries before the event (the crucifixion of Jesus Christ), the prophet Isaiah painted a portrait so vivid, so specific, that it reads like an eyewitness account. But...
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Lent 2026 Day 27: Embracing the Fast Life – When Does Your Thomas Show Up? – Elder Lissa Nelson Neal
Scripture: John 20:24-27 Contributor: Elder Lissa Nelson-Neal Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my…
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Lent 2026 Day 26: Embracing the Fast Life – Surrender – The Gateway To Mercy – Elder Rob Lewis
Scirpture: Jonah 3:10 Contributor: ELDER ROBERT LEWIS SURRENDER – THE GATEWAY TO MERCY When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened. Jonah 3:10 NIV Lent invites us to examine our hearts and ask: Where...
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Lent 2026 Day 25: Embracing the Fast Life – The Power Of A Second Chance – Elder Rob Lewis
Scripture: Jonah 3:1–10 Contributor: ELDER ROBERT LEWIS THE POWER OF A SECOND CHANCE The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.” Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large...
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Lent 2026 Day 24: Embracing the Fast Life – What’S Got Your Gaze? – Elder Apryl Redwood
Scripture: Hebrews 12:1-2 Contributor: APRYL REDWOOD WHAT’S GOT YOUR GAZE? Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. Hebrews 12:1-2 NIV...
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Lent 2026 Day 23: Embracing the Fast Life – Embracing Sacrificial Love - Agape Love – Eld. Andrea Houston
Scripture: Romans 5:6-11 Contributor: ELDER ANDREA HOUSTON EMBRACING SACRIFICIAL LOVE - Agape Love "You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to…
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Lent 2026 Day 22: Embracing the Fast Life – Embracing The Fast That Transforms - Preparation For Our Calling – Deacon Jerlene Crayton
Scripture: Luke 4:16-21 Contributor : Deacon Jerlene Crayton EMBRACING THE FAST THAT TRANSFORMS He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on his Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read. The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him....
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Lent 2026 Day 21: Embracing the Fast Life – Embracing Renewal And Growth - The Master Gardener – Deacon Cathy Beasley
Scripture: JOHN 15:1-8 Contributor: DEACON CATHY BEASLEY EMBRACING RENEWAL AND GROWTH 1.“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes[a] so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are...
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Lent 2026 Day 20: Embracing the Fast Life – Embracing Wilderness – Elder Paul Samms
Scripture: Deuteronomy 8:2–3 Contributor: ELDER PAUL SAMMS EMBRACING WILDERNESS 2 And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. 3 So...
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Lent 2026 Day 19: Embracing the Fast Life – So You Want To Be A Disciple? – Pastor Scott Williams
Scripture: Matthew 16:24-26 Contributor: PASTOR SCOTT WILLIAMS SO YOU WANT TO BE A DISCIPLE? 24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 25 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses...
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Lent 2026 Day 18: Embracing the Fast Life – I Will Rest In The Lord – CRE Eld. Magalene Mcclarrin
Scripture:Psalm 62:5-8 Contributor: E. Magalene McClarrin, CRE I WILL REST IN THE LORD “Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from Him. Truly He is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress; I will not be shaken. My salvation and my honor depend on God; He is my mighty rock, my refuge....
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Lent 2026 Day 17: Embracing the Fast Life – Embracing Surrender And Repentance – Deacon Steven McCallum & Deacon Tanya McCallum
Scripture: Luke 18:9-14 NIV Contributors: DEACONS STEVE AND TANYA MCCALLUM EMBRACING SURRENDER AND REPENTANCE To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax...
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Lent 2026 Day 16: Embracing the Fast Life – Embracing Renewal And Growth - Shifted Perspective Brings Focus – Deacon Chioma Okoro
Scripture: Romans 12: 1-2 Contributor: Deacon Chioma Okoro Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be...
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Lent 2026 Day 15: Embracing the Fast Life – Embracing the Fast that Transforms - Elder Norma Haughton
Scripture: Isaiah 58:6–12 Contributor: ELDER NORMA HAUGHTON “Here is the way I want you to fast. “Set free those who are held by chains without any reason. Untie the ropes that hold people as slaves. Set free those who are crushed. Break every evil chain. Share your food with hungry people.…
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Lent 2026 Day 14: Embracing the Fast Life – When Hope Walks Beside You – Deacon Sergio Spencer
Scripture: Luke 24:15-35 Contributor: Deacon Sergio Spencer As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; but they were kept from recognizing him. He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?” They stood still,...
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Lent 2026 Day 13: Embracing the Fast Life – Ministering to the Least – Deacon Juanita Dingle
Scripture: Matthew 25:31-40 Contributor: Deacon Juanita Dingle MINISTERING TO THE LEAST 31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as…
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Lent 2026 Day 12: Embracing the Fast Life – More Than Sacrifice: Living What Pleases God – Deacon Grace Small
Scripture: Proverbs 21:3 Contributor: DEACON GRACE SMALL “The Lord is more pleased when we do what is right and just than when we offer Him sacrifices.” Proverbs 21:3 Life Application Study Bible Sisters and Brothers, I often wonder if I’m doing enough as a Christian, to please God. Do I tithe...
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Lent 2026 Day 11: Embracing the Fast Life – Keep Running the Race – Deacon Selena Washington
Scripture: Hebrews 12:1–3 Contributor: Deacon Selena Washington KEEP RUNNING THE RACE 1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for…
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Lent 2026 Day 10: Embracing the Fast Life – Embracing Renewal and Growth – Elder Ivan O'Connor
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Contributor: ELDER IVAN O’CONNOR Embracing Renewal and Growth 16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: [a] The...
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Lent 2026 Day 9: Embracing the Fast Life – Embraced by Grace and Held by God – Elder Valerie O'Connor
Scripture: Lamentations 3:22-33 Contributor: ELDER VALERIE O’CONNOR Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore, I will wait for him.” The Lord is...
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Lent 2026 Day 8: Embracing the Fast Life – Resurrection Hope – Deacon Vera Trenchfield
Scripture: Matthew 28: 1-10 Contributor: DEACON VERA TRENCHFIELD After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back...
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Lent 2026 Day 7: Embracing the Fast Life – Give Me Your Burdens – Eld. Eaine Hinds
Scripture: Matthew 11:28–30 (NIV) Contributor: ELDER ELAINE HINDS 28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my…
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Lent 2026 Day 6: Embracing the Fast Life – Embracing Renewal and Growth – Dea. Nancy Samms
Scripture Reference: Galatians 5:22–25 Contributor: DEACON NANCY SAMMS “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and…
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Lent 2026 Day 5: Embracing the Fast Life – A Heart Rending Experience – C.R. Elder Magalene McClarrin
Scripture Reference: Joel 2:12-13 Contributor: C.R. Elder E. Magalene McClarrin A HEART RENDING EXPERIENCE “Even now, declares the LORD, return to Me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning. Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the LORD your God, for He is gracious...
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Lent 2026 Day 4: Embracing the Fast Life – Embracing What God Requires – Eld. Mary Martin Sweet
Scripture reference: Micah 6:6–8 NLT Contributor: Elder Mary Martin-Sweet Embracing What God Requires “What can we bring to the Lord? Should we bring him burnt offerings? Should we bow before God Most High with offerings of yearling calves? 7 Should we offer him thousands of rams and ten thousand...
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Lent 2026 Day 3: Embracing the Fast Life – Say Yes and Start Fresh – Eld. Apryl Redwood
Scripture: Psalm 51:10-12 Contributor: Eld. Apryl Redwood Say Yes and Start Fresh Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and uphold me with a willing...
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Lent 2026 Day 2: Embracing the Fast Life – Preparation for Testing – Eld. Rev. Dennis Henderson
Scripture: Matthew 4:1-2 Contributor: Eld. Rev. Dennis Henderson “Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.” Matthew 4:1-2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
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Lent 2026 Day 1: Embracing the Fast Life – Just to Be Close to Him – Pastor Scott Williams
Scripture: James 4:7-8 NIV JUST TO BE CLOSE TO HIM 7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. James 4:7-8 NIV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Lent 2024 Day 45: My God, My God
“At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three In the afternoon. And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, ‘ Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?’ (which means, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?).” ~ Mark 15:33-34 NIV Scarred, broken, brutalized, and scorned, He...
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Lent 2024 Day 44: Shalom
I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid. John 14:27 NIV A soft breeze. A gentle touch. A warm embrace. A heartfelt “I love you.” All of these give us a sense of peace, calm and comfort. Peace is...
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Lent 2024 Day 43: Don't Be Distracted
“They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.” ~ Luke 19:44 NIV Lenten lesson: Be Still In a world filled with so many things competing for our attention: X,...
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Lent 2024 Day 42: Soul Joy Williams
7 I will give honor and thanks to the Lord, Who has told me what to do. Yes, even at night my mind teaches me. 8 I have placed the Lord always in front of me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be moved. 9 And so my heart is glad. My soul is full of joy. My body also will rest without…
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Lent 2024 Day 41: A Place Called "There"
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.2 And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying,3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward…
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Lent 2024 Day 40: Doing Less, Becoming More
Truly my soul finds rest in God: my salvation comes from Him. Psalm 62:1 As a new elder at Memorial Presbyterian Church, there are so many things to learn about the responsibilities of the role and how to best serve the church, the congregation and the community at large. There is always more…
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Lent 2024 Day 39: Imperfect But Chosen
“Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.” ~ Zechariah 9:9 NIV It is in our human nature to expect the best gifts to come in large, and expensive packages. The...
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Lent 2024 Day 38: No Doubt
"But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind." James 1:6 NIV Have you ever been on a boat, a ferry or a ship and felt contrary winds, disturbing waves or uneasy waters? Well, this could be an unsettling...
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Lent 2024 Day 37: The Source of Our Strength
“Therefore, take up the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to withstand on the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.” Ephesians 6:13 (NRSV) When we are faced with challenges, we must remember where our strength lies. Our Lord provides us with protection from dangers seen…
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Lent 2024 Day 36: A Forever Relationship
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. John 15:9 KJV No matter your education, occupation or socioeconomic status, everyone needs love. From the nicest to the meanest person, we all want and need to be loved. Many may not acknowledge or accept that fact. They…
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