OUTLINE: 2Co 9:15Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!The Ancient TruthThe Gospel transcends human history as we think of it, for it was planned by God from eternity past. God has always known that His creatures would fall and that He would save them. There was never a time where salvation wasn’t an option, […]
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OUTLINE: Heb 12:14-15 [Amplified]Continually pursue peace with everyone, and the sanctification without which no one will [ever] see the Lord. See to it that no one falls short of God’s grace; that no root of resentment springs up and causes trouble, and by it many be defiled.Ro 12:9, 17-18Let love be genuine. Abhor what is
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OUTLINE:GratitudeWe must be grateful for the blessings we have today because there’s no guarantee they will remain forever. Gal. 6:9-10And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially
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When I was young and still living at home with my mom – a single mother raising four kids, at times below the poverty line in America – I used to whine once in a while about not having what the other kids had. I wanted the new BMX bicycle, the new action figure, the
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OUTLINE: Mt 5:43-44“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” Ecc 1:9 What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done,and there is nothing
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For most people, getting out of bed in the morning is the start of their day. Get out on “the wrong side of the bed,” as they say, and you’re disheartened by the prospect of what lies ahead. When this happens, I have my worst days…days where I’m feeling particularly uninspired. It’s like a burden
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I wonder if the inventors of television ever imagined the impact their creation would have on the world. I wonder if they speculated how people would become slaves to massive flat screens projecting larger than life characters portraying disproportionally emotional dramas, or high school caricatures, or superhuman sports heroes. I wonder if they could see
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OUTLINE: Covert ArroganceYou are going to get ZERO help from your flesh (or any enemy of Christ) in discovering areas of covert arrogance in yourself; for this is one of the flesh’s strongholds and the very means it continues to have influence over you. The Fruit of GraceIf there are circumstances in your life that
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Do not allow temptation to fracture your thinking.Anytime we begin a thought with, “Well, it’s only natural,” we need to take pause and consider if we haven’t already set our course on a vector of thinking that will lead us away from “the mind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16). Just because we have access to the Truth
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This edition of the blog is unique in the sense that it’s comprised of a letter my wife, Tammy, wrote to herself about 5 years ago, sort of like a diary entry. She was fishing through old folders on her laptop computer recently and came across this letter. When she shared it with me, I
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