I recently traded in my wife’s perfectly good, functioning car for another one. Why? You’ll have to ask her if you ever get the chance. She wasn’t thrilled but fortunately has learned to live with my “issues”. Suffice to say that while my intentions were good, things didn’t work out exactly how I planned. Many […]
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ref: True Love In Action KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: SIMPLY NOT QUITTING is an excellent, God-given quality called steadfastness. ref: True Love In Action – blog 9/27/19 We know Whom we have trusted, and that even though we are weak and lack faith at times, He is perfectly faithful. We must be willing to
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: “exhort” – from parakaleo [para = “from close-beside” + kaleo = “to call”) – to “make a call” from being “close-up and personal”; to “personally make a call”; refers to believers offering up evidence that stands up in God’s court. People love to be made church “members”, but they don’t always accept the responsibilities that come with it. The
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Memories of Y2K I don’t know how it is in other countries, but in America, we love to obsess. Whether it’s the latest scandal, or national tragedy, or something political going on, we Americans love our drama. It’s one of the reasons I don’t receive a newspaper, nor do I ever watch the news. It’s
KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: “exhort” – from parakaleo [para = “from close-beside” + kaleo = “to call”) – to “make a call” from being “close-up and personal” (“personally make a call”); refers to believers offering up evidence that stands up in God’s court. Barnes on Heb 3:13 Belonging to the same family; having the same interest in religion; and all suffering when one suffers,
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: “exhort” – from parakaleo [para = “from close-beside” + kaleo = “to call”) – to “make a call” from being “close-up and personal” (“personally make a call”); refers to believers offering up evidence that stands up in God’s court. Barnes on Heb 3:13 Church members should exhort one another. There may not be the intimacy of personal friendship among all
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Without light, we walk in darkness. This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. – 1 John
KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Living in His love, through things like encouragement, lends to joy and peace together as members of the Body of Christ. Embrace the brotherly love we are called to live in. It’s what makes life worth living. It’s what fills our cup, and the cup of others around us. How
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TODAY’S VERSE: John 1:12 “Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God” As today’s verse tells us, once we are born again and saved, God considers us family! As members of His family, what is expected of us? Are we to live each
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: As a general rule, the “happiest” people are the people with the most purpose. To whom much is given, much is required. Ignorant vs. Willful Sinning – blog 8/3/23 Jesus’ parable is where we get the saying, “To whom much is given, much is required.” This is essentially the substance
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