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The Mission and Vision of the Southern Baptist Convention
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Prayer draws 'God's wing of protection' over Ukrainian city
The eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv was expected to be one of the first cities to fall to pro-Russian separatists. However, the city remains relatively peaceful, and some locals say it is because God has answered the prayers of those who gather each morning on the main square to pray for their city and for Ukraine.
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Today's Devotion
From the Book of Ecclesiastes:
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them (Eccl. 9:11-12).
Ecclesiastes is a book of profound philosophy that could have only been discovered through close examination of life. Time after time throughout these observations, Solomon has shared profound revelations about life and God's interaction with our lives that could only have come from a significant amount of time spent communing with God and meditating on theological thoughts. In today's focus verses, we find two such potentially life-altering ideas. - Continue...
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