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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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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My church used to be a cow barn. Yup, you heard that right – a cow barn. The builders, who happened to be childhood friends of mine, purchased the parcel of land from a local farmer who had used it for sheltering animals. They modified the barn by raising it off its foundation by about
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). Anything we do to our own body, we are doing to God. A life filled with gratitude to the Lord is a life filled with joy. The writer of Hebrews
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: There’s a rapidly expanding subculture where a person’s preference is for fantasy over reality. There are entire industries now built to accommodate this perversion. Sexual fantasy is leading the way (all types across all sorts of media: Internet, movies/TV, books, events, etc.). A life filled with gratitude to the Lord
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With the advances in communication technologies, people are trending towards living in a fantasy world over reality. I’ve been researching the detrimental effects this trend is having on our children and it’s catastrophic. Some of us escaped much of this awfulness simply by being too old, thank God. When I was a kid, we played
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Counterfeits actually steal our joy. Abandoning them is abandoning Satan’s schemes! Your Creator has saved you and bought you, and has an extremely FULFILLING mission for you. Don’t let Satan fool you into a false sense of reality and being ungrateful! We must recognize deceptions are EVERYWHERE in this world,
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: There’s a rapidly expanding subculture where a person’s preference is for fantasy over reality. There are entire industries now built to accommodate this perversion. Sexual fantasy is leading the way (all types across all sorts of media: Internet, movies/TV, books, events, etc.). “Pleasure Without Joy Is a Ruse” – blog 11/22/24
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