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Note from Andrea: This article concludes a two-part series on prayer by a special guest blogger, my sweet, thoughtful husband, Adam Graham. The first part was posted last Thursday. Superficially, the Kendrick Brothers’ latest film, War Room appears to say, “If you pray in faith, your marriage will be saved. If your marriage isn’t going well, it’s because you haven’t prayed enough.” We’ve known people who have had marriages fall apart in spite of their prayers and efforts to fight for that marriage, so that doesn’t ring true.   I don’t think that’s the intended point. When the film opens,  Elizabeth is a realtor andRead More →

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By Adam Graham Note from Andrea: This article begins a two-part series on prayer by a special guest blogger, my sweet, thoughtful husband. The second part will post next Thursday. The Kendrick Brothers’ latest film, War Room, finished second at last weekend’s box office. The film focuses on the power of prayer. For many, that’s a problem. Some have accused the film of preaching a prosperity gospel that says all you have to do is pray in faith and your family’s problems will all go away. I see the film as a mostly positive illustration of the power of prayer, but I also see howRead More →

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Excerpt from my testimony on the Helping Hands’ Press Blog. First if you need to catch up and read the first three parts just click and read. Tweets you can share on Twitter are at the end. A concussion stole @andreajgraham’s story and launched the Journey to the #WebSurfer Series as it is today. Journey to #WebSurfer PT2: How God challenged @andreajgraham to rely more on God in the writing process. Journey to #WebSurfer PT3: Eye-opening lessons from an unexpected, challenging answer to #sci-fi author @andreajgraham’s prayer. After God challenged me to write about a character I feared would be too controversial, I wrote aRead More →

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A revised reprint of a timeless article from May 11, 2007.   The Church is a family, not a daycare. Yet many churches say “when you’re here, you’re family” à la the Olive Garden. While we focus on numbers like a business, some in our churches today have been raised in church their whole lives and still have little understanding of the gospel. The surrounding culture says, “there are no absolute boundaries of right and wrong. We each get to create our own, and all of our contradicting boundaries are valid as long as we’re each doing what is right for us.” How should we respond in theRead More →

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Took Victoria Knight’s painting class at Epworth Chapel on the Green. Hoping you’ll forgive my missing blog post if I give you a free image of my painting instead. You’re welcome to caption this in the comments or suggest Bible verses that would pair well with it. [tweetthis remove_twitter_handles=”true”]”Purple Mountains Majesty” the results of #scifi #author @andreajgraham taking a painting class[/tweetthis]