I wasn’t sure what the Spirit would have me write this week, so I began setting up my Mac environment with my typical writing, research, and Bible tools, when up pops this new “feature” in my Microsoft 365 Word app call “co-pilot”. Now, mind you, I didn’t ask to have this feature installed and I […]
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There are two reasons why a believer should always be happy. First, you’re saved…’nough said. Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift! – 2 Corinthians 9:15 Second, you have been given the Word of God to wash over you anytime you open your Bible and anytime the Holy Spirit reminds you of His Word.
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Simple Doesn’t Mean Simplistic – blog, 7/12/24A simple life is unfettered by vain philosophies and ideas that distract us from the Truth that sets us free (John 8:32). Christ is our ‘true north’, and all our investments of time and energy are to be directed towards being sanctified in Him (e.g.,
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Adopted Sorrow – blog, 7/5/24I don’t have massive sorrow in my own life, fortunately; however, I often feel the sorrow in this world as if it were my own. People are in a perpetual state of pain and suffering, most often because of their own poor decision-making. Even so, I’ve learned
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Momma and Her Ten Chicks – blog, 6/28/24 Maybe there are profound moments of clarity that I might experience by dropping my biases towards the people I dislike the most. Maybe there’s a reason why God created us so differently, yet exactly as He purposed. Maybe a turkey can teach me
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OUTLINE:God’s PlanOnly through death can there be new life (just as a seed that goes into the ground, dies, and bears new life). Believers must die and then be raised to a new life in Christ. (Jn 12:23-26; 1Co 15:35-49) Gal 5:24And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions
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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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Jesus said: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.” -John 15:1-2 As is always the case when reading scripture, we must define the terms.
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Is it possible to have a zeal for God that God rejects? According to Holy Scripture, the answer is “yes”. Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of
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OUTLINE: Every Golf Shot Makes Someone Happy2/11/22 – blog The Bible, a Twofold Record of God’s Great Works:– Creation (Gen 1-2) – Redemption (Gen 3-Rev 22) God’s Salvific Plan (aka Redemption)– God the Father planned it. – God the Son accomplished it. – God the Holy Spirit applies it.1Co 14:33aFor God is not a God
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