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Forbearing part 2

05/13/2018 19:56

Its not just putting up with people. Its forbearing them in love. Not just tolerating people, but celebrating people. Love means affection. The love feast. Sharing a meal. Sharing what you've got. Seeing a need and meeting it. Not kicking people when they're down. Not crossing the road and ignoring...

Forbearing part 1

05/12/2018 20:09

This is something that I, myself, need to work on. Because even though I completely agree with the saying, "Short hair, don't care," there is more to what we're about to talk about than just not caring. In fact, it is the opposite of that. So let's do our memory verse first. "I therefore, the...

Hope Springs part 5

05/11/2018 20:14

Hope springs out of the spring deep inside you. Hope springs out of the LOVE deep inside you. Because that's what hope is all about. Its not about, you know, wishing on a star. Or picking flower petals. Its not, "He loves me, He loves me not, I hope it lands on He loves me!" Its, well, let me say...

Hope Springs part 4

05/10/2018 17:02

Being hopeful isn't about being unrealistic. Its about believing the Word of God (which is Jesus, which is love). Believing that things are not bad and getting worse, but good and getting better! Almost every day I tell people, "This is a good day to have a great day!" Because, to me, a big part of...

Hope Springs part 3

05/09/2018 20:10

Today I want to talk about the spring. You know, the one that hope springs from. And we've already said its the breast--the heart. So lets look at a couple of memory verses and flesh this out a little bit. "In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, if any man...

Hope Springs part 2

05/08/2018 19:57

Hope springs eternal. It has to. Otherwise its not hope. And that's what this Rant series is all about--understanding hope. And sometimes the best way to do that is to go the beginning. Law of first mention. Where the first time the Bible uses a word kind of defines what that word is all about....

Hope Springs part 1

05/07/2018 19:45

I've long said that if hope didn't spring eternal, it wouldn't be hope. Because sometimes hope is all we have left, when it seems like everything else crumbles. Hope for a better day tomorrow. Hope that instead of things getting worse and worse, they can actually get better and better. And that's...

Release part 5

05/06/2018 20:01

I've been focusing on the "releasing" aspect of "receive and release" in this Rant series. And I think that's important. Understanding that love is giving and in order to receive love we must give the love we have. That's kind of the secret of life, in my opinion. Letting God love us, and loving...

Release part 4

05/05/2018 20:01

Some Bible stories just stick with you, right? Well, this is one that always has for me: Jesus is hungry and tells His disciples to go get some food. In the meantime He meets a girl and ministers to her. Then this happens: "Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus, "Rabbi, eat...

Release part 3

05/04/2018 20:26

This may not be one of the first verses you think of when it comes to the idea of receiving and releasing--receiving BY releasing--but that's why I'm going to dig into it today. Someone once told me I don't see the Bible the same way many other pastors do. And I took that as a compliment. So let's...

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