One Life Church

What is the foundation of your worldview and how does it influence your finances?  That’s a big question.  I’ll start at worldview and move toward personal finances. As a local church pastor in small town America, I often find myself in conversations with couples who have completely different world views, but they don’t even realize it. They say things like, “Well, she likes church and the Bible and all that God-stuff, but I’m not really into it…but we …

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“Prayer is the opening of the heart of God as to a friend.  Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him.  Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him.  When Jesus was upon the earth, He taught His disciples how to pray.  He directed them to present their daily needs before God, and to cast all their care upon Him.  And the assurance He gave them that their petitions should …

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“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” - Martin Luther King Jr. “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an …

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