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The View From Above: Thoughts To Help With Everyday Life September 22, 2026 Guest Contributor: Pastor Harold Warner — Part 13 The Church: A Place to BLESS I want to end my contribution to VFA where I started: loving the Church. I’m not making too much of this, as if it was my hobby horse. No, the whole Book of Ephesians has this as its central theme: the mystery of the Church. Salvation is personal, but it is not private. When God saved us, He calls and invites us to become p

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The View From Above: Thoughts to Help With Everyday Life September 1, 2026 Pastor Paul Stephens There Is Hope for the Backslider ‘I’m a backslidden Christian’ is what he said, having been arrested after being pulled over by an El Paso County Sheriff, who happened to be my grandson, Marcus. I thought, wow!…you really can’t run from God. He knows every move you make, every place you try to run and hide. This individual had served the Lord in one of our churches in Phoenix for e

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