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All We Need part 2

05/12/2015 13:10

There's only one thing that can satisfy the desire of your heart. And His name is Jesus. Because the desire of your heart is to be loved. And God IS love. When we understand this simple truth, we can cut out a lot of the STUFF that always tries to get in the way. Or, as Hebrews 12:1 puts it,...

All We Need part 1

05/11/2015 13:26

The Beatles said it best, "All we need is love, love, love is all we need." I'm convinced that when we say things like, "Jesus is the answer," this is what we really mean. LOVE is the answer. For way too long we've been stuck feeding from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Thinking that by...

Liberty part 5

05/10/2015 13:44

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Because where the Spirit of the Lord is... there is love. Let me say it like this, "This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all" (1 John 1:5). So where the light...

Liberty part 4

05/09/2015 13:37

Free FROM sin--unbelief, external circumstances, expectations--makes us free TO love. Because what is unbelief except not believing that God loves us? That's the sin of the world that Jesus took away. And He took it away by giving us something (someone, Himself) to believe in. He told us what love...

Liberty part 3

05/08/2015 13:56

We are free to love--because we ARE loved--and that makes us free to live. That's our liberty. That's why there is liberty where the Spirit of the Lord is. His love empowers us to love. His life, in us and through us and as us, is what empowers us to live. Look at what Jesus said when speaking of...

Liberty part 2

05/07/2015 14:38

When you're in bondage, you may be "living" but you certainly aren't ALIVE. And make no mistake, that's what Jesus came to fix. He didn't come to make "bad" people "good." He came to make dead people alive. We were dead in our trespasses and sins. We were the walking dead. The living dead. We were...

Liberty part 1

05/06/2015 11:38

"Give me liberty or give me death!" These words, spoken by Patrick Henry in 1775, really encapsulate what this Rant series is going to be all about. Because what we don't seem to understand is that we WERE dead before the cross. God told Adam, "But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou...

Together part 5

05/05/2015 13:03

It's not good that man should be alone. It's good that man should work together. When we work together we come into the unity of faith. The unity of ONE new man. And we are all members of that ONE new man's ONE body. Let me say it this way, to quote a movie I like, "Same team, Farva." The problem...

Together part 4

05/04/2015 13:36

Things work out better when we work together. Especially when we understand that we are all in this together. We are all working--whether we realize it or not--for the same goal. I'm convinced that the cry of mankind's heart is the desire to be loved. To be accepted. Unfortunately, that gets us...

Together part 3

05/03/2015 13:34

I've heard it said that boys look for reasons to be friends, and girls look for reasons to be enemies. I'm not sure if this is true--certainly it's not true 100% of the time--but it definitely seems like in the church world we want to make enemies with everybody. We seem to have thrown down a...

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