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Inside Out part 1

04/25/2016 10:40

Jesus brought us out of bondage, and into life. HIS life. Abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life. And He did this by drawing us all into Himself, and planting Himself in us. That was the cross. And the cross changed everything. Before the cross everything was external. Even the Holy...

Out and In part 5

04/24/2016 13:36

Freedom works two ways: What you were freed FROM, and what you were freed TO. Let me say it another way: Jesus brought us OUT--of the bondage of sin and death--but He also brought us IN to the Promised Land of rest. I think a big problem we have in the church world is that we spend all of our time...

Out and In part 4

04/23/2016 13:11

We were brought out so that we might be brought in. Out of the bondage of sin and death and in to the Promised Land of rest. Jesus came down to bring us up. He became sin so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. But look at Hebrews 3:18-19, "And to whom sware he that they should not...

Out and In part 3

04/22/2016 10:56

Jesus brought us out... to bring us in. Out of bondage, and in to the Promised Land. Out of sin and death, and in to His abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life. So my question is: Why are we still so focused on the past? For that matter, why are we so focused on the future? There's an...

Out and In part 2

04/21/2016 11:03

Jesus didn't bring us out of bondage just to leave us there. Look at Romans 5:18 in the Message Bible, "Here it is in a nutshell: Just as one person did it wrong and got us in all this trouble with sin and death, another person did it right and got us out of it. But more than just getting us out of...

Out and In part 1

04/20/2016 10:34

To be perfectly honest with you, I think we in the "church world" spend WAAAYYYYY too much time focusing on what we have been freed from. Now don't get me wrong, I think it's phenomenal when we talk about the chains being broken. When we talk about being freed from sin and death. That's...

Non-conformist part 5

04/19/2016 16:16

It's the middle of April and Logan and I still have our Christmas tree up. Why? Because it makes my four year old son happy. He doesn't care--at all--what you're "supposed" to do with your Christmas tree once the season is over. He likes the lights, and the ornaments (and I think he keeps hoping...

Non-conformist part 4

04/18/2016 11:00

I think the hardest part about not conforming to the world is ignoring what everybody else thinks. Because as soon as you start to go your own way--as soon as you start to follow your heart--people will tell you you're going the "wrong way." But here's a memory verse you can cling to: "There is...

Non-conformist part 3

04/17/2016 16:49

Basically it's like this: You can listen to the world, and do what it tells you to do... be who it tells you to be... conform to it's image and try to "fit in." Or... you can listen to what your Daddy says about you. And for the record, here's what Daddy says about you, "And there came a voice from...

Non-conformist part 2

04/16/2016 09:44

We have a compass deep down inside. It's called our heart. And I truly believe we get the most mixed up, and messed up, when we don't follow our heart. We get lost. We get distracted. We try to conform to this world and we end up miserable. Because the only way a square peg will fit into a round...

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