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Follower part 1

03/16/2016 10:48

I heard this term the other day: "I'm a follower of Christ." Now maybe that means different things to different people. Most things do. But in the context that I heard it, it meant trying to be just like Jesus. Walking in His foot steps. Patterning your life after His. Which, on the surface, seems...

Cherish part 5

03/15/2016 14:34

We cherish the things that are important to us. Or at least, we really really should. We take care of them. Make sure nothing happens to them. Because they're valuable. And, in my opinion, there is nothing more important or valuable than people. I think there are only two important things in the...

Cherish part 4

03/14/2016 14:58

Let's back up a verse from our key verse. Ephesians 5:28, "So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself." Then we see, "For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church" (Ephesians 5:29). I think...

Cherish part 3

03/13/2016 11:24

I think you have to be careful with the things that are important in your life. And I'm not talking about 1 Peter 5:7, "Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you." I'm not talking about stress and worry. I'm not talking about Philippians 4:6, "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing...

Cherish part 2

03/12/2016 13:06

Our key verse for this Rant series is Ephesians 5:29, "For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church." So before we really get into it today I want to discuss the beginning and the end (the Alpha and Omega) of this verse. Because the first...

Cherish part 1

03/11/2016 10:13

These are some of the things I tell Logan all the time: "If you want to HAVE a friend, you have to BE a friend." And, "If you're not careful with your stuff, you won't have any stuff." And that's what I kind of want to Rant about for the next few days. How we treat the things (people) that are...

To Call part 5

03/10/2016 14:18

Salvation isn't dependent on anything we do. Or anything we could do. Jesus saved us, all on His own. And He did it by giving His life for us and giving His life to us. Being made sin for us so that we could be made the righteousness of God in Him. He did it by transforming us from sinner...

To Call part 4

03/09/2016 12:22

God lives in us. The Kingdom is within us. It's not about something external. It's about what's inside. So when we "call on the Lord" in order to "BE saved" what we need to understand is that all we're really doing is filling ourselves with the fulness of God. He already filled us to overflowing....

To Call part 3

03/08/2016 10:23

It might seem a little bit tricky. Because to me "calling on the Lord" means receiving the gift you've been given. And a very powerful way to do that is through the waters of baptism. Making that decision and that statement to enter into the covenant that God made with Himself. But I also think we...

To Call part 2

03/07/2016 11:04

Those who call on the Lord will be saved. Seems pretty cut and dry, right? Profess Jesus as your personal Savior and get into heaven when you die. Or so years and years of religious tradition would have you believe. Like God is a member's only club and you have to say the password or you're doomed...

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