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“You shall be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.” Leviticus 20:26 ESV               How curious that many times what we consider our freedom actually leads us in the opposite direction…self-imposed bondage.  And just one of those examples is the circles we run in.  That is, the company we keep, the friends we adhere to, and most importantly the resulting topics, conversations, and actions our circle of influenc

“ Then he presented the other ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. And he killed it, and Moses took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.”  Leviticus 8:22-23 ESV                 My grandpa used to say, “show me your friends and I’ll tell you where you’re going.”  So true in the essence of how your current circle of influence w

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