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Mercy Me part 4

10/06/2017 17:08

I think its interesting that every time God (LOVE) has power over us, He does what is RIGHT for us. He never uses His power to dominate. And I like to quote 2 Corinthians 5:14 from the New Living Translation as much as possible, "Either way, Christ's love controls us. Since we believe that Christ...

Mercy Me part 3

10/05/2017 19:46

Receiving and releasing. Receiving BY releasing. Its so vitally important. Because you can't give what you don't have. And you can only give what you do have. When we needed mercy the most Jesus cried out to His Father and said, "Forgive them, for they know not what they do." When we were yet...

Mercy Me part 2

10/04/2017 18:41

The thing about mercy is that it is, by definition, undeserved. If you need mercy, that means you're in the soup. In the soup up to your eyeballs. You messed up, bad. And your only choice is to throw yourself at the mercy of the court. Get it? That's why that phrase exists. But now watch this--I...

Mercy Me part 1

10/03/2017 17:52

I just kind of like the phrase, "bowels of mercy." We're going to look at what it means, from our key verse for this kind of ultra Rant series about Colossians 3:12, but before we get into that I just want to give my off the top impression. To me, the bowels of mercy are like the deep deep. Deep...

Be Kind part 5

10/02/2017 19:37

I'm going to quote our key verse again to wrap up this Rant series, with the understanding that we're going to continue to use it for the forseeable future as we look at each aspect of love we are to "put on." Colossians 3:12, "Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of...

Be Kind part 4

10/01/2017 18:39

Kindness isn't just what you do. Kindness is who you are. Because love is kind. And you are Jesus--God in the flesh, love in a body. God in YOUR flesh, love in YOUR body. So you are love. God is love, and He lives in you. He lives THROUGH you. As He is, so are we in this world. So what I'm trying...

Be Kind part 3

09/30/2017 20:11

Kindness is useful is every situation. Because love is kind. And love is the answer to every problem. And, listen, I've seen the jokes about students writing "love" or "Jesus" on their tests over and over, but clearly that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about people. And people need...

Be Kind part 2

09/29/2017 17:19

I can't think of a situation--and I really do put a lot of thought into this stuff... like all day every day--where being kind DOESN'T help. A soft, or kind, word turns away wrath, right? When someone wants to fight but you kill 'em with kindness... it really takes the wind out of their sails. When...

Be Kind part 1

09/28/2017 19:46

Remember Blockbuster videos? Or am I just that old? Either way, they had a slogan that said, "Be kind, please rewind." Remember VHS tapes? But I digress. That slogan always stuck with me. To the point that anytime anybody says anything about kindness, and especially (obviously) if someone says, "Be...

Let Live part 5

09/27/2017 19:37

Letting other people live is a big part of life. Because the truth of the matter is, you can't control what people do. And if you're spending (wasting) your three t's (time, talent, treasure) trying to get people to live up to your expectations, all you're really doing is setting yourself up for...

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