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Alive part 2

09/29/2015 15:06

You know how "religious folk" seem to make everything a heaven and hell issue? How what we do seems to be important only because of what it will mean in the afterlife? That's crazy to me. Bizarre. Life is not for making sure you take the elevator up instead of down after you die. (And just for the...

Alive part 1

09/28/2015 15:02

Sometimes I really almost get discouraged by "theology" and "religion." I constantly find myself asking, "What are we talking about?" We seem to have totally and completely missed the point. "Christianity" is not a moral code to live by. We are not supposed to follow the Law of Moses in order to be...

To Be part 5

09/27/2015 12:25

We all want... ALL we want when you get right down to it... is to be accepted and loved. That's it. That's the desire of mankind's heart. That's why we're willing to DO in order to BE. We're willing to earn it, because we want it that bad. But there's the rub. You can't earn a gift. And the gift of...

To Be part 4

09/26/2015 11:52

In order to HAVE a friend, you have to BE a friend. In order to forgive, you have to know that you ARE forgiven. In order to love you have to know (and believe) that you ARE loved. This is such an important concept. We don't DO in order to BE. We do BECAUSE we be. We want to be known. We want to be...

To Be part 3

09/25/2015 12:03

We want to be accepted, and loved. That, I believe, is the most basic human desire. The most basic human NEED. We NEED to be accepted, and loved. But that will never happen if we stay in the appearance realm. The world realm. Judging by appearance. Judging by what we see. "You lied to me so you're...

To Be part 2

09/24/2015 11:45

I think people just want to be. Be accepted. Be loved. Be known. And I think that's why people are willing to DO in order to be. We think the juice is worth the squeeze. "If I have to work for what I want... at least I'll get what I want in the end." The problem is... there never seems to be an...

To Be part 1

09/23/2015 11:21

William Shakespeare wrote, "To be, or not to be: that is the question." And while I'm not exactly ASKING that question in this Rant series, I do want to explore the idea of being. Because I think more than anything that's what mankind wants. We want to BE. We want to be accepted, and known, and...

Be Still part 5

09/22/2015 11:18

I know I use this verse a lot, but A. I love it and B. I never hear anyone else use it so I might as well. Revelation 22:11, "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let...

Be Still part 4

09/21/2015 15:08

I feel like a big part of my ministry is helping people to know and understand their identity. Who they really are. And who we are in Christ is who Christ is in us. That's why I wrote the Answer Trilogy (Identity Crisis, Six Steps to the Throne, and EPIC), and that's why I preach and Rant so much...

Be Still part 3

09/20/2015 14:18

God speaks in a still, small voice. So we need to be still in order to know that He is God. If we're running around trying to "fix" every "problem" we see then we're not resting in the finished work. We're walking by sight, and not by faith. But if we can trust Daddy to fix it--trust that Daddy...

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