“No” is just a harmless expression, a necessary convention in the English language. Its use is often avoided, but shouldn’t be, because people nowadays are hyper-triggered by not getting what they want. We need to flip the script. I suppose our opposition to being told “no” begins at a very early age, doesn’t it? For […]
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One of the most common situations I see members of my congregation struggling with is how to deal with worldly friends. Among the most difficult is the one where a person has “old friends” from before they became a believer, or “friends” at work they enjoy spending time with, for a variety of reasons. We
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: We all minister to one another and encourage one another. We all NEED it, in both the giving and receiving directions, ala Rom 1:12! Do you want to live out an ordinary life, or a supernatural one??? Anyone God puts in our path is our neighbor!!! God’s great mercy towards
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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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Within a few years of beginning my ministry, I taught a series on the Book of Job that was quite eye-opening. See, most Christians go to this book looking to commiserate with him in one way or another, thinking the main doctrine taught is suffering. But it isn’t. It is faith. Suffering is nothing more than God’s
Our world is obsessed with romance, which often comes and goes, seemingly, in an instant. Seen a rom-com movie lately? Hollywood’s depiction of relationships is an emaciated shadow of true intimacy. Terms of endearment are used and abused as punchlines to sell tickets. Movie goers cry crocodile tears then thirty minutes later are eating a
KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE:Truth Is Light – blog, 6/21/24 Truth is light. Light shines into darkness. When it does, you have a personal choice to make; accept what the Word of God shows you, then grow or shrink away from it to your own demise. And for the record, it shouldn’t matter if what the
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Don’t ever shortchange His grace in your life. Don’t forget the miracles in your life; and be grateful to God for them! Between Black and White– blog 3/15/24 We’ve all been given a good conscience. We’ve all been given some measure of faith, by grace. We need to respect one
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