KEY PRINCIPLES IN THIS MESSAGE: Drive for Show, Putt for Dough – blog 2/23/24 You aren’t putting the ball in the hole, you aren’t scoring well, and you aren’t winning if you aren’t loving. “For each tree is known by its own fruit” (Luke 6:44). To proclaim love but never bear any fruit after it means […]
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I haven’t written a golf-related blog in a while. I love golf because it is such a wonderful, rich metaphor for life, itself. Did you know that I have a whole series on this topic in one of my books on the North Christian Church website? You can find it here: Diary of a Journeyman – Volume 1:
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: The Lesson of Anti-Exclusivity – blog 2/16/24 Life is short, my friend…Life is too good to ruin because of petty differences. Besides, who are you to take issue with others? Read Luke 6:41-42 and be healed.The Lesson of Anti-Exclusivity– blog 2/16/24 Be beautiful. Sow beauty in the Church of Christ. Resist
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KEY PRINCIPLES IN THIS MESSAGE: The Lesson of Anti-Exclusivity – blog 2/16/24 Life is short, my friend…Life is too good to ruin because of petty differences. Besides, who are you to take issue with others? Read Luke 6:41-42 and be healed. The Lesson of Anti-Exclusivity – blog 2/16/24 We ought to rejoice knowing that there are multitudes
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The American culture is intrinsically competitive. In fact, it was founded on the so-called democratic process, which implies elections. Elections, by definition, imply some form of competition between candidates for public office. America’s financial model is also competitive, being capitalistic. Where a winner takes the office in a democracy, a winner takes the market in
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KEY PRINCIPLES IN THIS MESSAGE: String of pearls… Rejecting God’s grace means you get no faith (faith is a grace gift that must be received with an open heart). No faith = no rest.Godly rest implies God’s grace. If you refuse His grace, you forfeit your peace.
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The account of Paul’s conversion in the Bible gives us two very important things to think about. First, it definitively proves to us that without God’s direct intervention in the life of an unbeliever, there’d be no possibility of salvation (ref. Ephesians 2:1-10) – it is by grace alone that we are saved. Second, it gives
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KEY PRINCIPLES IN THIS MESSAGE: Putting in the Reps – blog 2/2/24 Learning the Bible is a daily activity. Like athletic training, we must maintain proper formwhile exercising our minds. It’s not just quantity, but quality that results in progress.Proper form in our biblical exercise includes reading with the intention of learning more about the Lord.
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THE MESSAGE: Forfeiture is final. The writer introduces the motif of the impossibility of a second repentance after apostasy. Putting in the Reps – blog 2/2/24 Learning the Bible is a daily activity. Like athletic training, we must maintain proper form while exercising our minds. It’s not just quantity, but quality that results
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TODAY’S VERSES: 1 Chronicles 16:25-26 “For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and he is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the Lord made the heavens.” 1st and 2nd Chronicles – 1st Chronicles begins with multiple genealogies or “family trees” from Adam
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