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Anyway part 5

09/22/2016 12:59

We started this Rant series with 2 Corinthians 12:15 in the New Living Translation. I want to end it with the same verse in the King James Version. "And I will gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved." I like the NLT version where it talks about...

Anyway part 4

09/21/2016 10:07

You can't fight fire with fire. (Except that by the end of today's Rant I'm going to show that you CAN, but not in the way we traditionally think of it.) You can't give an eye for an eye or everyone ends up blind. If you take what the world gives you, and give it back, you're just feeding the...

Anyway part 3

09/20/2016 11:53

I know it can be hard to give and give and give and get nothing in return. It's like pouring your heart into a black hole. And that can leave you feeling empty. Which is why love can seem to be tricky. Especially when it comes to intimate relationships with people. You can only be betrayed by...

Anyway part 2

09/19/2016 18:43

Love them anyway. That's what I say. And I think the apostle Paul agreed with me. Our key verse for this Rant series is 2 Corinthians 12:15 in the NLT. "I will gladly spend myself and all I have for you, even though it seems that the more I love you, the less you love me." And my point yesterday...

Anyway part 1

09/18/2016 12:27

Have you heard the quote, "Don't cross oceans for people who wouldn't cross a puddle for you"? I see stuff like this all the time. And before I even get to my point I want to say: I get it. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on ME, right? When you get burned all you want to do is stay...

Comprehension part 5

09/17/2016 12:54

If someone tells you something and your response is, "I don't understand!" then what they just told you--true though it may be--doesn't do you any good. That's why its so important to let God reveal His immutable truth to you. He gives us an understanding. He doesn't expect us to "figure it out."...

Comprehension part 4

09/16/2016 12:50

Here's where I think comprehension comes in the most handy--unfortunately, it's also where comprehension is the hardest: When we don't understand... that's when we need to understand the most. When things look "bad." When we don't know what's happening, or why. When things look dark. But don't they...

Comprehension part 3

09/15/2016 12:14

Sometimes it takes that "Aha!" moment before you can truly comprehend (or understand) what you know. When the truth becomes true to you. When it becomes real. Not just an idea, or something you've read, or something someone has told you, but something you've experienced. This happened to Saul of...

Comprehension part 2

09/14/2016 11:52

The other day I was talking to my five year old son, Logan. And I was giving him this whole big speech, and he was nodding along. So when I finished I said, "Got it, bub?" And he said, "Yep!" But then he turned his head and looked me dead in the eye and said, "Wait. What did I just agree to?"...

Comprehension part 1

09/13/2016 11:31

I believe in repetition as a very effective way to learn something. That's one of the reasons I read the Bible from cover to cover once a year. I'm building that foundation. So that when someone brings new light--new revelation--to a verse, or passage, I have a general knowledge of what they're...

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