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The Nature of Love part 2

03/13/2015 12:20
It's really a life or death issue. And I'm not talking about what happens "after we die." There's so much emphasis on "living right so that we can go to heaven someday when we die." As if we have to earn our spot in heaven. As if we aren't already in heaven right now... because heaven is in us...

The Nature of Love part 1

03/12/2015 13:39
"There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends" (John 15:13 NLT). Love comes in many shapes and sizes and forms. It is so simple--to love is to give--but so vast. Everybody receives love in different ways and everyone loves in different ways. But I think it's important to...

Master part 5

03/11/2015 11:44
It's not what we do FOR God. It's what He does THROUGH us. And that's the difference, to me, between the slave mentality and the Son mentality. Jesus said He lives BY the Father. And in the same way we live by Him. He lives in and through and as us. He's not our boss, He's our life. It's the...

Master part 4

03/10/2015 13:55
When it comes right down to it, it's about identity. It's about how you see yourself. Because how you see yourself is how you see God. If you see yourself as a sinner who deserves punishment for all the wicked deeds you've done, you'll see God as an angry taskmaster who judges according to good and...

Master part 3

03/09/2015 12:19
Service by serving. That's what Jesus came to do, and that's what Jesus continues to do in and through and as us. That's how we serve Him. By letting Him serve us. By serving each other. Philippians 2:3-4 says it like this, "Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind...

Master part 2

03/08/2015 16:44
Life or death. Blessing or cursing. Light or darkness. Truth or lie. God or mammon. What you believe is who you yield yourself to. Who you, in a sense, serve. And yesterday I said serving God is not about Him saying something and you doing it or else. But there IS an example of this in the Old...

Master part 1

03/07/2015 11:20
"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon" (Matthew 6:24). Ok. Before I get into this I want to make something clear: God is ALL powerful. And that doesn't mean He has...

Human Nature part 5

03/06/2015 13:25
Before the cross we had what is commonly referred to as a "sin nature." It was our default setting to not believe. Because we really didn't have anything to believe in. The best we (thought) we could do was earn our bread by the sweat of our brow. The problem, of course, is that no matter how hard...

Human Nature part 4

03/05/2015 13:24
What if "sin" ISN'T our default setting? What if it's not something to be overcome, but something to lay aside? What if our nature ISN'T to do "bad stuff" but instead is to love each other with the love that our heavenly Father loves us with? What if we're not under the Law but under grace? What if...

Human Nature part 3

03/04/2015 12:21
I really want to destroy this idea that we are born with a "sin nature." That "human nature" is to do all of the bad things that think of as "sin." And I want to destroy this idea because I think it's damaging. I don't want to hear people say, "I'm just a sinner saved by grace." Because if you...
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