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\"07-11-15<\/a><\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 Howdy Prodigal!<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 I am having fun in this Banyan tree! There are all these limbs that are curvy and straight, skinny and thick.<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 Looks like fun, I know the curvy limbs are better for climbing but I have some insight today about how straight can be better.<\/p>\n

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Charles Spurgeon gives us insight into helping others with the Word of God.<\/p>\n

There is nothing so cutting as the Word of God.\u00a0 Keep to that.\u00a0 I believe also that one of the best ways of convincing men of error is not so much to denounce the error as to proclaim the truth more clearly.\u00a0 If a stick is very crooked, and you wish to prove that it is so, get a straight one, and quietly lay it down by its side, and when men look they will surely see the difference.\u00a0 The Word of God has a very keen edge about it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We forget that God is inside of all of us who has Jesus Christ as our savior.\u00a0 The Holy Spirit is clearly able to\u00a0sense error more then we.\u00a0 We do not need to add much more with the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 Sometimes it is about just showing up with\u00a0that straight\u00a0stick and being beside the crooked one.<\/p>\n

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Hebrews 4:12<\/p>\n

For the Word of God is living and active.\u00a0 Sharper than any double-edge sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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