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That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched — this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. — 1 John 1:1Please notice that our faith has roots in experience.We don’t believe some spiritual-sounding idea that somebody cooked up a long time ago. The message came to us become someone had a life-changing experience with God.When I was a little boy, my grandparents told me not to touch the cookstove. Why? Because somebody touched it, and somebody got burned. My grandmother offered…

… being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. — Philippians 1:6 If you were going to make a chart of your spiritual journey, what would it look like? At what times in your life have you experienced the greatest spiritual growth?If spiritual growth were just a matter of spiritual disciplines, then the go-get-’em types would leave all the rest of us in the dust. But spiritual growth is not just a matter of setting goals and observing disciplines. We are in the…

It could be easy to miss, tucked in between the Trek Bicycle Shop and the Princeton Club, just across the street from East Towne Mall. There’s no big sign above the door. One clue that it’s not just another store front or office suite is the cascading wall of water sculpture just inside the front door. It’s symbolic, perhaps, of the cascade of prayers raining down upon Madison from within.It’s the Madison House of Prayer for All Nations, a non-denominational prayer and worship center, located at 1714 Eagan Road. It’s an outgrowth of a previous house of prayer formerly located…