Putting in the reps is athletic training phraseology. Bodybuilders use this kind of lingo when they speak about how they’ve made their greatest gains. “No pain, no gain.” Repetition is an imperative to progress, especially when it comes to physical training. This is common knowledge. People talk about the human brain as being a “muscle.” […]
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KEY PRINCIPLES IN THIS MESSAGE: Grace gives without any expectations. ‘To disobey God is to say in your heart that you don’t trust that His will is the right way for you.’ We are called to hope and to pray for the best, always, and leave the results in God’s hands. How One Forfeits the
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Grace gives without any expectations. To disobey God is to say in your heart that you don’t trust that His will is the right way for you. Disobedience results in failure to enter God’s rest. How One Forfeits the Forgiveness of Sins – blog 1/26/24 While it’s true there’s always hope
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Most of us have that one thing (or more) in our life that we engage in, knowing we “probably” should not, but continue to anyway because we enjoy it. You know, the activity we use to “relax” and take our mind off of things; that poisonous morsel from the world we ingest because it tastes
There are hard truths in the Bible that we don’t always like to accept. Of course, there are the ones strewn across the Old Testament where God wipes out a bunch of so-called “innocent” people (I put the word “innocent” in quotes because it requires a much longer analysis than I have time for here).
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KEY PRINCIPLES IN THIS MESSAGE: Why Are We Not All Dead? – blog 12/29/23 – To summarize…sin, in God’s eyes, is a capital offense. – Then why are we not all dead? – If we all got what we deserved, we’d all get God’s justice and we’d all be dead and in Hell. – Remember, God
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Why Are We Not All Dead? – blog 12/29/23– To summarize…sin, in God’s eyes, is a capital offense.– Then why are we not all dead?– If we all got what we deserved, we’d all get God’s justice and we’d all be dead and in Hell.– Remember, God has never been unjust.
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Whenever I’ve asked my congregation to raise their hands if they’ve suffered this past week, month, or year, everyone raises their hands and there’s inevitably a collective sigh and usually a few chuckles. It’s a form of group commiseration, I suppose…a sort of, “Well, this is our life, and we don’t suspect it’s going to
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: The question the table is: can anything be “good”, truly, if it’s not done in love??? God showed us how to do things from the heart when He came down to earth for us in the Person of Christ. God is love!!! – 1Jn 4 Good deeds must be done
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: If you’ve been on the fence in your soul, turn to the Lord while there’s still time/opportunity! IF we humbly obey the command to diligently seek Him, He will reward us with supernatural blessings that go beyond our imagination. Do we read His word with the intention of getting to
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