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Bowing to the American Flag. Literally.
Kurt Willems shared this interesting item he found on Amazon. In the product description it admonishes us to:
Submit yourself to the Prayer Bench and open up your life to receive more of God.
Hmmmmmm.
How about we just submit ourselves to God?
Category: General
Tags: Kurt Willems, Political Idolatry, Prayer
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