KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: A pastor’s job is to hold up the “mirror”; however, the conviction must come from God the Holy Spirit when YOU look intently, humbly, and honestly at what He reveals to you through His Word. Sin has the direct result of not only diverting our eyes from Jesus Christ, but […]
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TODAY’S VERSES: Jonah 1-3a “Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, ‘Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.’ But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.” We recently started a new series in prep school studying the book of Jonah! If you
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I learned a very powerful lesson later in life that I wish I had learned earlier. If you’re younger than me and you’re reading this, then my encouragement is to listen closely – this blog may save you some recurring heartache, regret, and self-doubt. We humans live within the construct of time. This means that
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Ch 12 represents a clear shift from historical recitation (Ch 11) to pastoral exhortation. A pastor’s job is to hold up the “mirror”; however, the conviction must come from God the Holy Spirit when YOU look intently, humbly, and honestly at what He reveals to you through His Word. Sin
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: In God’s grand plan for the ages, OT and NT saints are all in this together, as a family. Salvation is an eternal concept, not a point-in-time one. Therefore, to fully understand God’s salvific plan, we mustn’t be nearsighted; rather, we must consider it as spanning millennia (all human history,
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Solomon, the wisest man of his time, wrote at the very beginning of his book on wisdom: The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: As the mind goes, so goes the heart. If you want to OBEY the commands of God that directly relate to human emotions (e.g., “rejoice always” – 1Th 5:16), then, “set your mind on the things of the Spirit” (Ro 8:5), aka, the “sacred writings that are able to make you wise” (2Ti 3:15). God doesn’t
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We put a premium on being relevant in this world, even though our attempts at establishing said relevance are often misguided; hence our obsession over famous actors, athletes, scholars, politicians, activists, and even well-known pastors, evangelists, apologists, and theologians. The wider the circle of interested parties within a given realm, the bigger the prize. Regardless
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: As the mind goes, so goes the heart. God’s Word is our lifeline, always, to get back to “the mind of Christ” each and every day we wake up. 1Co 2:16 Our job is to come to the table… the table of God’s bread; His Word. When we come to
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: As the mind goes, so goes the heart. If you want to OBEY the commands of God that directly relate to human emotions (e.g., “rejoice always” – 1Th 5:16), then, “set your mind on the things of the Spirit” (Ro 8:5), aka, the “sacred writings that are able to make you wise” (2Ti 3:15). Faith isn’t
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