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Bubbling Brook part 4

02/18/2017 15:39

Everything acts according to it's nature. God set up this truth way back in the beginning. "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so" (Genesis 1:11). In other...

Bubbling Brook part 3

02/17/2017 19:14

The best part--well, I should say ONE of the best parts, because the more God (love) reveals Himself to me, the more "best parts" I end up finding--about God is that He never requires ANYTHING unless He first provides it. This is seen pretty clearly in the story of Abraham and Isaac. Genesis 22:8...

Bubbling Brook part 2

02/16/2017 18:18

Releasing what's inside by receiving it until you have filled yourself to overflowing with what God has already filled you with. That's pretty much all I seem to preach these days. Because that's what matters to me. That's how you love--by knowing and believing that you ARE loved. That's how you...

Bubbling Brook part 1

02/15/2017 18:08

I think the expression is actually "babbling brook" because of the way it sounds; like a bunch of people babbling. But I'm tweaking it a little bit because I want to talk about what's inside coming out. What's inside coming BUBBLING out. Like a cup that has been filled to overflowing. Because...

Sacrifice part 5

02/14/2017 19:19

It was the ultimate sacrifice. Literally giving everything He had and everything He is. Not so that He could get something, but so that WE could HAVE something. Because Jesus didn't just give His life FOR us, He gave His life TO us. God wanted the best FOR us, so He gave the best TO us. He SO loved...

Sacrifice part 4

02/13/2017 16:57

The best part of Jesus' sacrifice--laying His life down... giving it FOR us, and giving it TO us--is that He picked it back up again. That's why, and how, perfect love casts out fear. When we make that same sacrifice, and love each other as Jesus loved us, we aren't actually losing anything at all....

Sacrifice part 3

02/12/2017 17:39

When we understand the sacrifice, we can make the sacrifice. Because the sacrifice was, and is, love. When we understand how we are loved, we can love. That's as simple as I can make the Gospel. 2 John 1:5 says it like this, "And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment...

Sacrifice part 2

02/11/2017 18:16

Yesterday we saw the sacrifice Jesus made. Nobody took His life. He laid it down, and He took it up again. God's judgment wasn't death. It was LIFE. He raised Jesus (and us in Him) up to abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life. Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice--laying His life down for...

Sacrifice part 1

02/10/2017 18:06

I want to talk about the power of love for the next few days. And I know I did a similar Rant series a little while ago, but you know the advice my pastor gave me, "Preach it until your heart is empty on it." That's what I've learned, and that's what I'm going to do. So. The power of love doesn't...

Value part 5

02/09/2017 17:25

Perhaps if our goal was to understand and support, rather than to manipulate and control, we wouldn't constantly find ourselves getting so worked up about other people and what they do. Perhaps if we saw the value behind their actions--more than just, "I wish they wouldn't do that," even to the...

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