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Guest devotional by Roger O’Dell, Executive Director of Model Cities – El Paso and active in ministry at Immanuel Baptist Church, El Paso, Texas. Good Day Brothers and Sisters in Christ, “Your Kingdom come” –  part of the model prayer.  Isn’t this the way a Christian should live each day his life?  You know – in [...]

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Guest devotional by Roger O’Dell, Executive Director of Model Cities – El Paso and active in ministry at Immanuel Baptist Church, El Paso, Texas. Good Day Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Rising, now that’s something.  This act forever sets our Lord apart from all the “wannabees”.  You can run down the list -  Allah, Apollo, Atlas, [...]

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Guest devotional by Roger O’Dell, Executive Director of Model Cities – El Paso and active in ministry at Immanuel Baptist Church, El Paso, Texas. Good Day Brothers and Sisters in Christ, They lowered His dead body from that rugged cross and carried it to a borrowed tomb.  Our Savior knew this day would come.  He also [...]

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Guest devotional by Roger O’Dell, Executive Director of Model Cities – El Paso and active in ministry at Immanuel Baptist Church, El Paso, Texas. Good Day Brothers and Sisters in Christ, The Master gave us a way out!  The full Bible reference below tells the story of how sin entered the earth and how our sin [...]

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Guest devotional by Roger O’Dell, Executive Director of Model Cities –El Paso and active in ministry at Immanuel Baptist Church, El Paso, Texas. Good Day Brothers and Sisters in Christ, A few weeks back I was asked me if I would write five of devotionals to be circulated while the regular author is on vacation.  I [...]

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Good Day Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Thoughts concerning worship should not conclude with hypocrisy, but with the majesty of how we are to worship our Lord Jesus Christ.  Jack Hayford penned the following beautiful praise chorus of worship, describing how we should best worship the Lord:  “Majesty, worship His majesty.  Unto Jesus be all [...]

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Good Day Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Just as the Pharisees of Jesus’ day worshipped God for the wrong reasons, too many people today worship Him for the wrong reasons.  The Pharisees showed no love for God; they worshipped with a desire for profit, status, and appearance sake.  Today is not too different than then; [...]

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Good Day Brothers and Sisters in Christ, We as Christians would never want to be called “Pharisees.”  Yet, every one of us could easily fall into the routine of religion if not careful, and thus become hypocrites.  Hypocrites are those who pretend to be something they are not and have no intention of being.  When [...]

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Good Day Brothers and Sisters in Christ, The people of Isaiah’s day were not the only hypocrites when it came to going through the motions of religion; in Jesus’ day the Pharisees were the same way.  They were the religious leaders of New Testament times, and they had no hesitancy in placing religion before true [...]

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Good Day Brothers and Sisters in Christ, As we have recently been writing concerning worship, the context has primarily been associated with the local congregation, how church leadership is approaching worship in the regular church services.  Although it is church leadership that sets the tone for worship, either emphasizing it properly or placing emphasis elsewhere, [...]

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