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Heartily part 1

12/17/2020 17:33

I talk about this idea a lot: How we should do things heartily--to the best of our ability, and because they are in our hearts to do them. So for the next few days I want to really dig into this idea. And what it boils down to, for me, is simply following your heart. But this can be tricky because...

Resurrection Life part 5

12/16/2020 19:56

When Jesus said He came that we might have life, and have it more abundantly, He brought something with Him. He brought the love of God. That love is what makes the abundant life... abundant. That love is the difference between life as we have always known it... and His abundant, everlasting,...

Resurrection Life part 4

12/15/2020 17:37

There's a huge difference between "life" and "Resurrection Life." And that difference, in a Word, is love. Before the cross--and, in a very real way before we accept the truth of the cross through the act of water baptism--we were all dead men walking. We just stumbled around in the dark trying to...

Resurrection Life part 3

12/14/2020 19:54

"Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his...

Resurrection Life part 2

12/13/2020 20:07

Let's really get into this. Our key verse for this series is John 11:25, but before I quote it again I want to back up and get the previous verse too. "Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day" (John 11:24). That's such a religious mindset. We think...

Resurrection Life part 1

12/12/2020 18:46

I'm stuck on this idea of life. So, as my pastor once taught me, I'm just going to preach it until I'm empty on it. In our last Rant series I spent some time trying to look at the difference between life and death. That difference, of course, being love. No love... no life. Know love... know life!...

Alive part 5

12/11/2020 19:52

The secret of life is... living. It's knowing what you've got instead of constantly trying to chase what you think you haven't got. Its doing what Romans 6:11 says. "Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto usin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." It's that...

Alive part 4

12/10/2020 20:01

No love... no life. Know love... know life! That's about as simple as I can make it. To live is to love and to love is to live. But here's the important part: We know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brethren. We have to understand that we were dead. That, in fact, we ARE...

Alive part 3

12/09/2020 17:50

Jesus came that we might have life. He knew the problem wasn't good vs evil. Both of those are on the same tree. The tree that can't bear any fruit. We keep trying to turn over a new leaf, but until we get onto an entirely different tree there can never be real, true, lasting change. That's why...

Alive part 2

12/08/2020 17:53

One of my favorite things that Jesus said is, "The thief cometh not but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" (John 10:10). And I always like to point out that the thief Jesus was talking about in this passage of...

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