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Let’s Learn How to Encourage Each Other—TODAY!

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By Brian Sharpe, Senior Associate Pastor “But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called ‘today,’ that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.” – Hebrews 3:13 Why didn’t I have to take a class before becoming a parent—or even a husband? I took classes to be a …

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Not yet in a small group at Elim? Here’s how to get connected!

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By Larry Short Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about small groups at Elim. I’ve been thinking about how incredibly blessed I have been, in my life thus far, because of my connection to those small communities we call “groups.” This week I am turning the big six-zero. (Which really means, and I realize this …

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Why Does God Send Worms?

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By Larry Short “The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.” (Job 1:21) I don’t know whether women struggle with this as much as we men do, but, as Americans, I think we are all way too performance oriented. Whenever something good happens to us, we …

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Important Lessons from Esther

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By Larry Short Elim’s young adult group, Pulse, is nearing the completion of a study of Esther. In case you’re unfamiliar with the story, it takes place in postexile Persia (formerly Babylon). Freed from captivity, about 60,000 Jews have emigrated back to the Jerusalem area to rebuild the Temple and pick their lives back up …

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Who Is the Gate?

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By Larry Short And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been …

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Not by Might, Nor by Power…

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By Larry Short “So he [the angel] said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty.” (Zechariah 4:6) I wanted to take the opportunity to thank Elim for allowing me to serve once more on the Elder Board. …

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