KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: The whole of a believer’s life is to be lived in trust and dependence on the God who saved them. This trust cannot be proclaimed in the absence of proof. Faith is a tremendous blessing to those who have it. Faith is what separates us from everyone else on Earth. […]
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If fifteen years as a pastor has taught me one thing, it’s this: Never compromise your integrity to Truth. If the world takes issue with you, just remember one critical thing: it’s not you they have a problem with, it’s God. If someone says to you, “I don’t like you,” either with words from their
We all have a sense of fairness we use to evaluate judgement, whether in giving or receiving. For the most part, we obtain this scale of values through experience. For example, as parents we use the experiences from our own childhood to calculate what type and severity of punishment is fair for our children. If
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I recently traded in my wife’s perfectly good, functioning car for another one. Why? You’ll have to ask her if you ever get the chance. She wasn’t thrilled but fortunately has learned to live with my “issues”. Suffice to say that while my intentions were good, things didn’t work out exactly how I planned. Many
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ref: True Love In Action KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: SIMPLY NOT QUITTING is an excellent, God-given quality called steadfastness. ref: True Love In Action – blog 9/27/19 We know Whom we have trusted, and that even though we are weak and lack faith at times, He is perfectly faithful. We must be willing to
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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
KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Counterfeits don’t only deceive us, but they are DESTRUCTIVE, especially destroying our peace and intimacy with the Lord. Anything we do to our own body, we are doing to God. Perspective: why don’t we think about how we’re hurting the Lord when we sin?? Aren’t we sinning against the One
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Life is short! And TODAY is what matters most! If you don’t know when the Lord’s return is, then why act as if it is some great distance from you? When we believers lack a sense of urgency, we’re carrying around the wrong perspective. We’re missing something very important! Many
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE:If you don’t know when the Lord’s return is, then why act as if it is some great distance from you? We have become intricate members of God’s grace economy. Good perspective may cause us pain, but since it is righteous, it is good.
It’s difficult to say the title of this blog without immediately singing the melody, isn’t it? It’s a lovely one and, if you’re anything like me, you can sometimes glaze over the words in favor of the music. It’s not that I don’t sing the words or understand them while I’m singing them, it’s just