Ray Pritchard

Husband, father, grandfather, president, Keep Believing Ministries.

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52 Years Married! 💍 A Summer Travelogue Adventure! ✈️

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Our missionaries are on the field because they didn’t try to “what if” God. They didn’t make any deals. They didn’t demand any assurances in advance. God called and they obeyed. And the miracles followed after them.

Where does that leave us? We gaze silently, baffled and amazed by those who have chosen the path of obedience. They have blazed a trail for us to follow.

Will we obey, or will we stall for time, making silly excuses while the world burns and God waits for his sleeping children to wake up?

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Repentance starts when we say, "Lord, you were right all along, and I was wrong." But that should not be hard for us to say because when we sin, we are always wrong, and God is always right.

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“I AM” has sent me to you” (Ex. 3:14).

That simple phrase contains the essential truth about who God is. He is the personal, eternal, self-existent God of the universe. He always was, he always is, he always will be.

He is above all things, beneath all things, behind all things, and in front of all things.

By him all things hold together.
In him all things have their being.
Without him, the universe does not exist.

He's big enough for whatever problems you face today.

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"Whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say,
‘It is well, it is well, with my soul.’"

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When we get to the end of all our excuses, God says to us what he said to Moses: “Trust me. I can do more through you than you can imagine. Make yourself available to me, and I will do amazing things in your life.”

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Do the hard thing.
Do the right thing.
Do the next thing.
Everything else is just details.

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God's work in your life is chipping away at your weak points and slowly developing the character of Jesus Christ within. But that means there are tremendous grounds for optimism—even in the worst situations—because the hard times mean God is making you more like his Son.

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What do Ernest Hemingway, George Barna, and that woman I met on the flight from Denver all have in common?

They all got mentioned in this message from the summer of 1994.

Should church be a safe place? The answer is yes! Unless the answer is no. I wrestled with that question in this sermon.

You may find yourself challenged (I was!) by this message (which I had forgotten) from 32 years ago.

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Lord Jesus, raise me above the smiles and frowns of this world so that my only concern will be your approval. Amen.

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"Then man goes out to his work, to his labor until evening" (Psalm 104:23).

How we work is as crucial as how we pray.

What you do on Monday is as sacred as what you do on Sunday.
The man who gets up in the morning, goes to his job, and works all day in the marketplace, and the woman who cheerfully pursues her daily tasks at home or in the workplace—these are the ones who make an impact for Christ in the world.

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All of us are works-in-progress. We’re not finished, not glorified, not perfected, not completed. We’re all “under construction.”

If you’ve ever visited a construction zone, you know that it is noisy and looks messy. While the hammering and sawing continues, it’s hard to imagine what the final result will be.

But God never stops working on us because there is so much work that needs to be done.

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God’s sovereignty is a soft pillow for the soul. It gives us comfort when we face unrelenting opposition and unexpected difficulty.

God is sovereign! Never forget that.

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What’s the First Rule of the Spiritual Life? He’s God and We’re Not.Until you get that, you are still in spiritual kindergarten.

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Every important decision you make starts in your heart. It’s the “real you,” the place where life makes up its mind.

Proverbs 4:23 says, “Keep your heart with all diligence because out of it flow the springs of life.” The heart must be “kept,” or else it will run away from us. If we do not “keep” the heart properly oriented, it will lead us in the wrong direction.

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Truth demands a response.
Every step leads to the light or the darkness.

Your heart is like a flowing river.
It goes in one direction or another.

Light received leads to more light.
Light rejected leads only to the darkness.

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When we launched Keep Believing Ministries in 2006, we chose Romans 15:13 as our theme verse because we wanted to be a hope-giving ministry.

This week on the podcast, I trace that great promise back to its context in Romans 15:7-13, where Paul paints a beautiful picture of God's Multicultural Church—people from every nation, race, and background united in Christ.

The gospel doesn't erase our differences. It redeems them and brings us together for the glory of God.

Join me as we discover why Romans 15 is still one of the Bible's greatest messages of hope.
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