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Not Easy part 4

04/19/2017 16:45

Helping or hurting? That's the question I ask myself before I do something. Especially before I do something that is not easy. Because if its helping, then it doesn't matter if its easy or not. Most of the time, the harder a thing is, the more worthwhile it is. But if its hurting... then you should...

Not Easy part 3

04/18/2017 17:27

When someone does us wrong, I think our first instinct is either fight or flight. We either want to give them back an eye for an eye (and back it up Biblically) or we want to build a giant wall between us and that person. And that second one is kind of the thought I've been grappling with for a...

Not Easy part 2

04/17/2017 10:41

Here's where (and when, and why) loving people seems like its not easy: We judge them, and we think we have to do it ourselves. Look at Jeremiah 32:27 in the NLT, "I am the LORD, the God of all the peoples of the world. Is anything too hard for me?" And the answer, of course, is no. There is...

Not Easy part 1

04/16/2017 14:54

I always try to point people to the simplicity of the Gospel. The good news that Jesus gave His life for us, and to us. The good news that we are unconditionally loved by our heavenly Father. And because we ARE loved, we CAN love. Pretty simple, right? But I have never, not one time, said it was...

Knowledge is Power part 5

04/15/2017 18:19

Knowing is half the battle. Believing is the other half. Because you can't believe something you don't know, and because faith without works is dead. What you do absolutely one hundred percent flows from what you believe. If you say you believe something, but don't act on that belief, then you...

Knowledge is Power part 4

04/14/2017 13:16

What it really kind of comes down to is this: If you know what you've got, you can USE what you've got. If you don't, you can't. And when we're talking about Spiritual things then we're talking about the gift of God. And if we're talking about the gift of God then we're talking about eternal life....

Knowledge is Power part 3

04/13/2017 16:42

Today I want to talk about the concept of putting off the old man, and putting on the new. But, specifically, I want to talk about the truth that we HAVE put off the old man and we HAVE put on the new. Because, see, the finished work of the cross is... well... finished. It's a done deal. And when...

Knowledge is Power part 2

04/12/2017 17:07

Here's a saying that I like a lot: "Don't worry about mistakes. Learn from them. When you know better, you can do better." And when we apply this to the finished work of the cross it takes on even a deeper, more powerful meaning. Because when we know better WHO WE ARE, we can more naturally BE who...

Knowledge is Power part 1

04/11/2017 17:16

I think G.I. Joe had it right: Knowing is half the battle. And I think the other half is believing. When you know and believe something (specifically, the love of Christ), that's when it becomes REAL to you. And I think that's the proper order too. Because you can't believe something you don't...

Inner part 5

04/10/2017 16:45

Instead of living from the outside in--trying to conform to the world (even though you'll never "fit in" that way anyway) by following a set of external rules--we need to understand that we DO live from the inside out. What is inside is what will come out. Or rather, what we believe is inside is...

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