KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: God’s grace isn’t reserved JUST for His elect. His grace is observable through His creation (ref: Ro 1:19-20; Mt 5:45). We deserve Hell. We don’t deserve any of God’s grace. It’s impossible for us to earn it (Ro 5:6-8). Perspective is everything. Working hard your whole life may provide you […]
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: We deserve Hell. We don’t deserve any of God’s grace. It’s impossible for us to earn it. Perspective is everything. Working hard your whole life may provide you with temporal blessings from God, but you cannot stake a claim to it once you die, for all your hard work may
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: One of the greatest blessings in this lifetime is to be utterly humbled by His grace. Salvation is always by grace. “No” Spells Opportunity – blog 8/1/26 When God says “no” to His children, we can rightly (dare I say excitedly) rest on the fact that He has something better in
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In America, entitlement is a cancer. We only have ourselves to blame. As technology has made life much easier over time, days filled with hard labor are increasingly becoming a thing of the past (I just heard a non-politician world leader say that with the rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) people may soon live
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57. That’s the new me. 57 years old, or shall I say, “57 years young?” Whatever the case may be, I’m turning 57 in about 6 hours from the writing of this blog, and the first thing I am thinking about is Heinz 57 steak sauce – LOL – no kidding! That’s how my brain
TODAY’S VERSE: Romans 9:15 “For he says to Moses, ‘I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.’” When we left Jonah in our study, he had just been vomited up by the fish after spending 3 days and 3 nights in its belly. Jonah had repented
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Well, it’s a new year. I suppose millions are celebrating the passing of 2025 and the advent of 2026. With so many life lessons learned behind us and untold adventures over the horizon, who can say what the future has in store! Woo hoo – I’m excited, how about you? As I think about this,
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Have you ever gone swimming, only to emerge with a blocked ear? After a few minutes of futile attempts to clear it out (e.g., smacking your head in public), you abandon all hope and choose to live with muffled hearing until your ear decides to clear out the matter on its own. As is the
TODAY’S VERSE: Psalm 149:4 “For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He adorns the humble with salvation.” As we continue our Christianity vs. Religion series, let us review the terms we are using for this study. When we say religion, we are referring to the religions of the world which teach people they must work to earn
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TODAY’S VERSE: James 1:27 “Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.” We have begun a new series in prep school titled, Christianity vs Religion. You may be wondering what the difference is. Let us first define our
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