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Rev. Bob Ragan

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The Reality Of Desire

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“Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, ‘What are you seeking?'” ~John 1:38 Do you know what you want?  For what do you wish?  What do you seek?  Each human being, every day of their life, wrestles in some way, shape or form with desire. As human beings, made in the image of God, the pull of desire is built into us, it is part of our DNA.  Because desire is God...

Sexual Sin and Self-Sufficiency

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Overcoming life-dominating sinful behaviors often begin with a crisis of truth. Everyone who struggles with sexual sin or any other kind of pervasive sinful behavior will have such a moment in their lives when they will be faced with the truth of God’s word and the resulting decision(s) they make in the face of that truth. When we choose to follow God through the saving grace of His son Jesus, we...

Be One Who Illuminates

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Bob Ragan is the director of Regeneration’s Northern Virginia office and is an ordained deacon in the Anglican church. He graciously wrote this week’s post for us. If you live in the DC Metro Area, please consider joining Bob for Into His Marvelous Light, our annual Sweet and Savory Fundraiser. You can learn more or register here.  A few weeks ago, I had surgery performed in my left...

Path Through The Wilderness

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Path Through The Wilderness, authored by Regeneration’s Northern Virgina Director, Rev. Bob Ragan, offers a fresh approach to help you experience the love, peace and freedom you desire. We want to be loved and to love well. And we each experience competing and conflicting desires, some that move us toward the life we want, and some that point us away from that life. We can also face overwhelming...

Excerpt from Path through the Wilderness

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… Jesus’ greater purpose in coming to earth was to be the connection, the way for us to be in right relationship with the Father. Adam and Eve’s capacity to see and hear aright changed the moment they ate of the [forbidden] fruit. Their spiritual eyes closed …they went from life to death! Knowledge of good and evil replaced their true source of life. Knowledge in and of itself cannot impart life...

What Lies Beneath

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I was recently given the daunting task to give a comprehensive lecture on the topic of sex within one hour. How could I possibly do justice to this topic in such a short amount of time? Of course I knew to seek the Lord’s leading on how to best face this challenge and was shown that I should not focus on surface behaviors.  There were deeper issues to be addressed and as I pondered what to...

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