If you ever played in an organized sport, you likely remember your coach telling you to get some rest before a big game. If you ever traveled for a team sporting event, your coach likely gave you and your teammates a curfew that was strictly enforced (e.g., if you broke curfew, you would be benched). […]
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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Integrity isn’t free. It comes at a personal cost, sometimes a great one. I’ve lost countless friends over the years because of my stance on the Bible. Some of these individuals, who still see fit to attack me, are former Christian friends of mine. No matter. So whoever knows the right thing to do and
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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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TODAY’S VERSE: Romans 13:1 “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.” In prep school we have started a series on Esther, a book in the Old Testament of the Bible. The story begins during a huge
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OUTLINE:In the sphere of love there is infinite creativity.Rest in HIS Yoke!Jesus has taken the weight out of life, so that we can transcend all things in this world, always being in union with Him, protected in the sphere of His love. Mt 11:28-30 1Co 2:9But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor
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OUTLINE:“where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom”This “freedom” is a function of salvation and yet it is even misunderstood by believers. This is why we must abide the Word of God, so that we learn and be delivered (saved daily) from our preconceptions (this is sanctification, which takes time). Love Isn’t Sterile,
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OUTLINE: Jn 4:13-14Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”Jer 2:12-13Be appalled, O
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I taught the following important principle from my pulpit this week, “The greatest thing I can ever encourage you to do is to obey God.” I have come to believe this after years of studying Holy Scripture. Some might argue that this seems too simple; however, if you understand how God sanctifies His children, it
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OUTLINE:Holy love cannot help but express itself.Mt 6:1“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.”Mt 16:23But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you
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