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Devils & Dog Fights

“It’s like we are fighting devils and dog fights!”, Chresten Tomlin said as he described the constant pandemonium that takes place throughout their time of ministry each day on the streets of the Evergreen community on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. “Everyone has multiple dogs and apparently even the dogs sense the lostness and violence…

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Light in the Darkness

Please continue in Intercessory prayer for Chresten and his team as they head back out into what is commonly known as the “Rez Bomb”, the Lakota-Sioux reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Yesterday proved to be nothing short of frustrating as they kicked off their first day of street ministry in the community of Evergreen.…

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Reaching the Rez

Thank you, ministry partner, for your faithful investment in souls.  Your intercessory prayer is highly appreciated as my ministry team and I journey to the Black Hills of South Dakota, home to the Lakota-Sioux tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The statistics tell the story of this lost people: 88% Alcoholism 91% Unemployment Suicide Rate…

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Saving Faith

Ephesians chapter 2, verses 4-10:  “But God, Who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, by grace ye are saved;  and have raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:…

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Fat and Forgetfulness

It is very easy for those who have been serving and walking with God for a long time to become arrogant, critical, and full of vanity. One of the greatest tools of Satan in these last days is to bring forgetfulness to the believer.

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He Keeps His Word!

Luke 24, verses 45-53:  “Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures, and He said unto them, ‘Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day; and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name among all…

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Going On To Maturity

Hebrews 5, verses 9-14:  “And being made perfect, He became the Author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him; called of God and high priest after the order of Melchizedek.  Of Whom we have many things to say and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.  For when for the…

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Community. Challenge. Change.

Romans 10:14-15:  “How then shall they call upon Him in Whom they have not believed?  And how shall they believe in Him of Whom they have not heard?  And how shall they hear without a preacher?  And how shall they preach unless they be sent?  As it is written, how beautiful are the feet of…

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We Are Christ’s

Galatians 5, verses 24 & 25:  “And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.  If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” The book of Galatians is a very powerful expository teaching from the apostle Paul.  The Galatian Church was dangerously close to defecting…

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Rivers of Revival

Isaiah 41, verses 18-20 (AMP):  “I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.  I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the wild olive; I will…

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Nothing Without Him

John chapter 15, verses 4 through 7, read  “Abide in me, and I in you.  As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.  I am the vine, ye are the branches; he that abideth in me, and I in him,…