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Bridges part 1

02/15/2016 10:58

This Rant series is about the ties that bind. And, unfortunately, like just about everything else we make this much more complicated than it needs to be. In our carnality we use just about anything negative we can think of to tie people to us. Guilt. That's a big one. We guilt people into doing...

Butterfly part 5

02/14/2016 15:27

We were created in the image and likeness of God. It says so right in the Bible. "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping...

Butterfly part 4

02/13/2016 10:34

Here's the thing about a butterfly: It doesn't start out that way. It starts out as a caterpillar. Then it has to go through a transformation. I don't know exactly how long THAT transformation takes, but I know how long OUR transformation took--three days. And we transformed from sinners to saints....

Butterfly part 3

02/12/2016 12:10

Creation. Where and when it all began. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. He created the mind and the body. He created... you. And since He hadn't yet created the sun or the other stars... and since He hadn't yet spoken (Let there be light)... it was dark. Too dark to see. In...

Butterfly part 2

02/11/2016 14:57

Maybe I should have called this Rant series "Wings." Because in the Scripture there are lots of pictures of birds, and wings. I called it butterfly, because of the effect a butterfly fluttering it's wings can have. And because that's how the Spirit brooded over us in the beginning when we were void...

Butterfly part 1

02/10/2016 10:31

I was going to call this Rant series "The REAL Butterfly Effect." But I don't like to attack things, or even be in the realm where something I say could be misconstrued as an attack. I'm a peacemaker. But I still think it's important to understand what the butterfly effect is, in order to...

Control part 5

02/09/2016 11:21

The love of Christ controls us. Not by weighing us down with an external set of rules--or Laws--but by compelling us to share what we have by filling us to overflowing with it. It's not about being controlled as much as it is about being IN control. Let me explain: In Matthew 5:39 (NLT) Jesus...

Control part 4

02/08/2016 10:53

All my life I never really had very much ambition. Never wanted anything. Never wanted to do anything. Just kind of went from one thing to the next. My grandma used to call me a tumbleweed. Really it wasn't until I kind of started a family--and met my pastor--that things started to get real....

Control part 3

02/07/2016 11:21

The reason I think we have so much trouble with the idea of giving up control is that we think we HAVE some control. We think--in a very Old Covenant mindset--that what we do determines what we get. If we do good we'll be rewarded. If we do evil we'll be punished. But when we look at control as the...

Control part 2

02/06/2016 12:05

According to Galatians 5:22-23, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." And in the New Living Translation "temperance" is rendered as "self control." So, while self control IS a fruit of...

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