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Listen and Live part 4

05/19/2017 17:59

If you want to live... you have to love. Because living and loving aren't just connected... they are the same thing! To live is to love and to love is to live. But you can't give what you don't have. So if you want to live (by loving) you have to first know that you ARE loved. That's why faith...

Listen and Live part 3

05/18/2017 17:02

Three words. Eight letters. Probably the most powerful thing one person can say to another. "I love you." And yet, when we hear it, it almost seems like we immediately want to dismiss it. Because it seems like its too good to be true. We don't often see ourselves as worthy of love. So even though...

Listen and Live part 2

05/17/2017 16:55

I think human beings, as a species, are pretty susceptible to outside forces. I'm not saying we're all gulibe, but we tend to (at the very least) believe what our five senses are telling us. For example (and I know most of you will probably find this weird) I've never tried coffee. Ever. Because I...

Listen and Live part 1

05/16/2017 17:12

There's a cool story--in the sense that it is a type and shadow of Jesus, and He in fact refers to it when He is talking about the cross--where a serpent was lifted up on a pole in order to save people who were bit by snakes. And the moral of the story was, "Look and live." Because what you see is...

Mustard Seed part 5

05/15/2017 17:58

We learn and grow. As we begin to understand what we have, and USE what we have. Faith is like a muscle, right? It grows as you use it. Taking baby steps becomes walking on water (walking on the Word). So to finish this Rant series, here's what I want to say: Give yourself (and each other) a break....

Mustard Seed part 4

05/14/2017 13:13

Ok, so I know that I've been focusing on faith as the mustard seed. And, to a little bit lesser extent, the Kingdom of God. But today I want to talk about US as that seed. And there are really two verses that I want to link together to (hopefully) make my point. The first one is 1 Peter 1:23,...

Mustard Seed part 3

05/13/2017 17:52

Even something as small as a mustard seed can grow into the biggest tree. Even the smallest baby step of faith can grow into walking on water. The problem, I think, is our microwave, snapshot, gotta have it right this second, mentality. Look, you don't plant a seed and then two minutes later dig it...

Mustard Seed part 2

05/12/2017 19:26

The important thing about a seed, even one as small as a mustard seed, is that it grows. Jesus said the Kingdom--which is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost--is like that mustard seed. So that means that while we start with glory (a seed has everything inside of it that it needs, as...

Mustard Seed part 1

05/11/2017 17:18

A little bit of something goes a long way. And, as you might surmise from the title of this Rant series, we're going to look at how a little bit of FAITH can go a REALLY long way. Matthew 13:31-32 puts it like this, "Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a...

Tough Love part 5

05/10/2017 19:19

It's tough to love someone when they are acting in a way we don't approve of. That, to me, is tough love. But this idea of being mean to someone and calling it "tough love" doesn't really wash with me. One of the basic foundations of love is that it (He) does not demand its (His) own way. There's a...

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