March 29, 2012
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Member Testimony | Tags: evangelism, church life, About Us, gospel, grace, humility, lake Nona, Lake Nona Church, Prayer, Redeemer Church, testimony, vision
Along with evangelism prayer can often seem like the most excruciating discipline of a Christian's life. But perhaps unlike evangelism it is not so much a result of forgetful negligence, but rather our seemingly half-hearted, faith-deficient offerings before God that lead us to feel God's proverbial pebble in our shoe...
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March 20, 2012
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Musings of a Pastor's Wife | Tags: Prayer, Faith Rising, healing, miracle, testimony, Sheree Phillips
(This is Part Two of this story. Please see yesterday's post for Part One.)
The day my Uncle Rocky died I was heartbroken, but I knew I had to tell Josh and Jaime. I still remember feeling perplexed and disappointed. I didn't remember ever believing so strongly that God would heal. I had so wanted them to witness a real miracle......
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March 18, 2012
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Musings of a Pastor's Wife | Tags: Fellowship, Lake Nona Church, ministry, miracle, Prayer, Sheree Phillips
Our friend, Frank, has been doing a Sunday evening mini-series on prayer. While it's likely I heard him do a variation of these messages in the 90′s at a former church, his words have been freshly challenging and encouraging me. As a small group of us sat our family room listening to him teach last night, the Lord began to show me how easily I'm tempted to discourage...
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March 12, 2012
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Musings of a Pastor's Wife | Tags: Redeemer Church, testimony, ministry, miracle, Lake Nona Church, grace, Fellowship, church life, Benny Phillips, Sheree Phillips
History isn't very important to a lot of people. But my husband was a history major who has transferred his love of history to our family. Sometime I will have to blog about the competition five of our kids engaged in with the same college history professor…
This morning at Redeemer Church history was on display.
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March 6, 2012
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Musings of a Pastor's Wife | Tags: About Us, ministry, Faith Rising, grace, humility, ladies, Redeemer Church, Lake Nona Church, Sheree Phillips
Do you remember the point I repeated my last post? Our faith-filled obedience to God pleases Him and sanctifies our work. The good news is that while the type of work we do differs, God's pleasure is the same whatever our work is!...
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March 1, 2012
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Musings of a Pastor's Wife | Tags: forigiveness, New Beginnings, Sheree Phillips, lake Nona, Redeemer Church, Orlando Church
A couple of years ago my son, Jesse, preached a message on the importance of seeing the place into which God has put us as a divine calling. The text was 1 Corinthians 7:17: "Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches."...
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