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Give Thanks part 4

11/25/2017 19:38

When you give thanks for something (or TO someone) you bless it (or them). And that's important. Because a lot of times we take things (and people) for granted. We have somehow developed this kind of ridiculous sense of entitlement. We think the world owes us everything. When all the world will...

Give Thanks part 3

11/24/2017 19:15

I didn't know I was going to go here, but the last couple of days I've been thinking about the difference in translations--and how its not really a "difference," as much as a different way of looking at it--between Jesus looking to heaven and BLESSING the food before distributing it (in the NLT),...

Give Thanks part 2

11/23/2017 17:33

The attitude of gratitude. That's what it comes down to. Not necessarily bowing your head and closing your eyes and asking God for stuff. Not throwing a penny into the wishing well and hoping for the best. But looking to heaven and seeing things as they really are. Seeing that we have been supplied...

Give Thanks part 1

11/22/2017 17:03

Almost Thanksgiving, right? Might as well do a theme Rant series. And while I do want to get into the "attitude of gratitude" that we really ought to have... I want to start with kicking over some sacred cows. If that's ok. And if its not... read someone else's blog, I guess. Smiley face. Anyway....

Be Still part 5

11/21/2017 19:50

I've been Ranting a lot recently about how less is more sometimes. About how sometimes the least you can do is the most you can do. But that's actually NOT what I want to say tonight. Because to end this Rant series about being still--calming the storm inside so that what's REALLY inside can come...

Be Still part 4

11/20/2017 19:59

When we are still, that's when (and how) we know that He (Jesus, God in the flesh, love in a body... God in OUR flesh, love in OUR body) is God. And I think its interesting that in Psalm 46:10 the word "God" is number 430 in Strong's Hebrew Concordance and it means "the supreme God." So its almost...

Be Still part 3

11/19/2017 19:53

There's a cool passage in the Message Bible of the story where Peter walks on water. Its in Matthew chapter 14. And when Peter takes his eyes off of Jesus and looks at the wind and the waves... and starts to sink... in the KJV it reads like this, "And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and...

Be Still part 2

11/18/2017 19:20

We always want to change the outside. Clean it up. Make it look better. Calm the storm. But in reality, the only way we can affect the outside is by getting right on the inside. In order to calm the storm, we must be still and know that HE is God. In order to change the outside we have to...

Be Still part 1

11/17/2017 17:59

I want to focus on two Bible verses in this Rant series in order to (hopefully) edify y'all a little bit. And I'm just going to give the two verses I want to link right from the jump. Ready? Mark 4:39, "And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased,...

Night Light part 5

11/16/2017 19:41

Take a ride with me as I try to finish off this Rant series. 1 John 1:7, "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." Ok. Well, I think this verse is phrased backwards. I think the way it...

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