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Ownership part 2

04/02/2015 13:53

Man... we really don't seem to understand love at all sometimes. We seem to think, "I love you, and that means I control you. I own you." When, in truth, the exact opposite is true. Christ's love controls us! We don't own love, love owns us! Look at 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 in the NLT, "Don't you...

Ownership part 1

04/01/2015 09:57

I saw a quote the other day, "Love without ownership." And it sent me spinning (right round, like a record player). Because I think about love a lot. I'm kind of obsessed with it. And if not having ownership is an aspect of love, then I think it's important. And I mean, I get what they were trying...

Acceptance part 5

03/31/2015 13:35

What if we never questioned whether or not God loved us and accepted us? What if we didn't judge His love for us according to our actions? What if we simply knew and believed that we ARE loved and accepted? That would almost make us believers, wouldn't it? And that would really free us up to live,...

Acceptance part 4

03/30/2015 13:30

Unconditional love and acceptance--not because of what we do, but because of who we are. That's what everybody wants. We don't want condemnation and judgment. We don't want to jump through hoops in order to be loved and accepted. And we don't want to have to change. Because if we have to change,...

Acceptance part 3

03/29/2015 13:08

We know that we are accepted in the beloved--in Jesus. We know that because we are accepted there is no condemnation. And that includes--first and foremost--self-condemnation. But here's the question: What IS acceptance? And to me, as simply as I can make it, if you accept someone you aren't trying...

Acceptance part 2

03/28/2015 13:40

You can't give what you don't have. That's why Jesus finished the work. He did it all so we could get it all. And now we have it all, so we can do it all. We forgive because we are forgiven. We love because we are loved. We accept... because we are accepted. But I'm really convinced that the first...

Acceptance part 1

03/27/2015 18:11

This is what I hear, "God loves you just the way you are... BUT He loves you too much to leave you that way." Which, to me, are two mutually exclusive statements. Either He loves you just the way you are... OR He wants to change you. It can't be both. If He loved you just the way you are--ACCEPTED...

The Point part 5

03/26/2015 14:19

What's the point? What's this life for? Why are we here and what are supposed to do since we are here? Well... it's pretty simple: Be loved and love each other. That's the point. That's why we were created. God IS love. So when God created the universe... love created the universe. And the only...

The Point part 4

03/25/2015 13:24

God's Word (Jesus, love) is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path. In fact, He IS the path (or the Way). But here's where I find a lot of people are at: They want to know SPECIFICALLY what God has for them, or, "What does God want me to do?". And listen, I know that God has a specific...

The Point part 3

03/24/2015 13:39

The point of all of this--of existence--is to be loved and to love one another. It's that simple. And we KNOW that. The deep calls out to the deep and we KNOW that we are loved. But there's a big difference between knowing and understanding. Between knowing and believing. My pastor always says it's...

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