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              What is prayer? Prayer isn't about us and what we get out of it or even about helping others. I've heard many times from people that you should try to pray less for yourself and more for others. So is that what prayer is about?          Let's pretend that you're a man named Billy and you live in a kingdom with a king who is willing to meet with you at any time. You go see him maybe once or twice a day. When you go, you say "Hey, how's it going?" no pause "So I have some issues, my wife's sick, one of my cows are lost, and my kids won't behave. Also my friend Joe has some financial troubles. So if you would help us out, that would be awesome. So thanks, bye, see you later, and you're pretty cool I guess."         Let's be honest. In this scenario, when you're in and out in less than three minutes, you don't really care about the king at all. It's all ...

                  What would the world be like without light? How would we live? Could we live? In all honesty, without light we would all be dead. Despite the fact that no light would mean no heat and we would all freeze to death, we also would soon die merely because we couldn't see to do anything. You could easily stumble into all kinds of things, be it a canyon, a lions mouth, or a giant blender. Light is essential to life. Wherever there is light, it overcomes the darkness. As humans, we rely on light for almost everything in our day to day life.          So what is Jesus claiming when He claims "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." (John 8:12) He is claiming to be our saviour, our saviour from the darkness of human life. He's claiming that without Him, we would be dead; that He is essential to have...