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Let’s Try This Again

If you read last week’s blog, you know that I when I sat down in the morning to write it, I became immediately irritated because of a nagging disruption placed there, apparently for my benefit. Rather than attempting to fight off the distraction, I embraced it as a teaching moment. The result was a blog

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My Old Friend Job

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

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Part 154 – The Book of Hebrews

KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: “test” – dokimazo – means “put to the test, prove, examine; distinguish by testing, approve after testing; establish fitness.” We should never be afraid of putting things to the test. Affirmation of good things is always good. For a true believer in Christ, possessing an ‘assurance of faith’ is a wonderfully settling,

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Part 144 – The Book of Hebrews

KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: The Empathetic Leader – blog 9/13/24 Great leaders are servants first. A servant’s first order of business is to tend to others. They are thrilled when others succeed and pained by their failures (ala Romans 12:15). We call this empathy.The Empathetic Leader – blog 9/13/24 True empathy implies sacrificial love. Great leaders

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Plucked From Condemnation

Consider for a moment the whole of human history from God’s viewpoint. He is not bound by the construct of time; therefore, He sees the entire timeline all at once (unlike humans, who view time as it passes by – sort of like watching a parade pass through a window, one section or moment at

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