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Part 9 – Commitment, Responsibility, and Accountability To the Local Church

KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Think about the power of stopping/starting something FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE AROUND US (even if you don’t “feel like it”). Think about how you can affect your loved ones going forward, in both of your families (natural and church). Your greatest responsibility to your family is your SPIRITUAL leadership!!! […]

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What Is Fair?

What’s Fair? What’s fair? That’s a good question; one that most of us have asked ourselves over the years, especially when we feel slighted, or dare I say jealous. Fair enough? (wink, wink) Seriously, though, what is “fair” if not a relative concept? It’s nothing. Without a relative norm there’s no baseline for judgement. Therein lies the

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The Need for Companionship

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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Christmas 2024

KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: My Old Friend, Job – blog 12/6/24 Job’s response to his friend’s errant assessment reminds me of the adage, “Don’t judge someone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes.” Good friends always give each other the benefit of the doubt. The question is, how often are we “good friends”? Be

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What Makes for Joy?

I recently heard Pastor Robert Charles Sproul say that a good way to think about joy is to view it as an acronym; “J” for “Jesus”, “O” for “others”, and “Y” for “you”. He said the order is very important if you’re ever to understand what joy is and where it comes from. If Jesus

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