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Evening Prayer: The Bible is Not a Sex Manual

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Gracious God, as this day fades into evening stillness, I bring before You the conversations we so often get wrong — the ones about bodies, intimacy, and what it means to bear Your image as whole persons. We have turned...

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Ephesians 2:14

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