If you read last week’s blog, you know that I when I sat down in the morning to write it, I became immediately irritated because of a nagging disruption placed there, apparently for my benefit. Rather than attempting to fight off the distraction, I embraced it as a teaching moment. The result was a blog […]
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Expectations are a killer to our happiness. Human strength is a form of weakness, because when relying on our own strength, we drop the Lord’s hand in the process. We mustn’t EVER be wholly dependent on any one aspect of our lives as if it were something we couldn’t do
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: The KoD exploits our weaknesses. I Can’t Shut Off My AI – blog 1/31/25 Here I am, irritated when I normally would be focusing on content…Then something occurred to me – why not write about this distraction? Every time I hit return on my keyboard, a little icon pops up asking
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TODAY’S VERSE: Jeremiah 17:7 “But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him.” We recently started our Salvation series in prep school. The Holy Spirit had us spend some time learning about confidence. Confidence is defined as, the feeling or belief that one can rely on someone or something. What
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I wasn’t sure what the Spirit would have me write this week, so I began setting up my Mac environment with my typical writing, research, and Bible tools, when up pops this new “feature” in my Microsoft 365 Word app call “co-pilot”. Now, mind you, I didn’t ask to have this feature installed and I
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: The KoD exploits our weaknesses. Don’t underestimate Satan’s disdain for us; and how he uses the world’s ways to tempt our flesh and lead us away from Christ. Do not be deceived. Our flesh is weak. This is why we must never think more highly of ourselves than we ought
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: A fundamental objective of the KoD is to offer up a counterfeit salvation/deliverance to human beings (vs. salvation/deliverance from God). The KoD exploits our weaknesses. OT sacrifices NEVER cleansed a person’s conscience, NOR did they ever provide them with forgiveness for their sins – they were merely “pointers to” the
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A strange thing happened to me the other night. I went to a friend’s birthday dinner hosted by her family. It was a lovely time with them eating pizza, drinking hot tea, and fellowshipping. I left at 5:30pm in order to feed my Mulligan girl her dinner. It was raining out and very dark (Rehoboth,
We need friends. We need them as they need us. The world’s population is ever-increasing and yet it seems that people are lonelier than ever. How is this possible? I mean, you’d think bumping into more people would mean more friends, right? Yet the more people there are, the more people compress and hibernate. Are
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Counterfeits don’t only deceive us, but they are DESTRUCTIVE, especially destroying our peace and intimacy with the Lord. Anything we do to our own body, we are doing to God. Perspective: why don’t we think about how we’re hurting the Lord when we sin?? Aren’t we sinning against the One
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