TODAY’S VERSE: Nehemiah 1:5 “And I said, ‘O Lord God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments’…” This month we are finishing up the Historical Section with its last 2 books: Nehemiah-This book tells how the Jews rebuilt the walls of […]
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I feel sad. My heart aches. I’ll tell you why. I look around at those in this world and see them striving for all the wrong things. I watch as they invest everything they have of any value into the world’s system of thinking, in a sincere effort to “succeed”. Their hearts are far from
KEY PRINCIPLES FROM 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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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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