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Fullness part 4

07/03/2021 16:47

Here's the key--and by that I mean the key to everything. The key, and the secret, of life--Ephesians 3:19, "And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." Being fiilled with the fullness. Experiencing everything we are by experiencing...

Fullness part 3

07/02/2021 19:28

I'm going to use the NIV for my memory verse today. John 1:16, "Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given." I like that phrasing. Grace in place of grace already given. That's what God's fullness is. Look just a few verses previous, John 1:14 (NLT), "So the Word...

Fullness part 2

07/01/2021 19:06

Jesus is the fullness of the Godhead bodily. All of God inside of a human body. And Jesus... lives in us. God in the flesh. Love in a body. God in OUR flesh. Love in OUR body. That's why we can experience all that He is. That's why we can understand the height, and depth, and breadth, and length of...

Fullness part 1

06/30/2021 19:49

I think about how much we settle for a lot. Or, I should say, how little we settle for. Which is a crying shame. Because there is so much available to us. But we disqualify ourselves from experiencing what we've been given because we don't think we deserve it. Or we don't think we're worthy of it....

Stumbling Block part 5

06/29/2021 20:25

When you stop stumbling and falling--through the power of God (the power of love) that is able to hold you up, it is then and only then that you can live in a way that keeps others from stumbling. Let me say it like this--if you have a weakness for drinking... you should probably avoid bars for a...

Stumbling Block part 4

06/28/2021 19:33

When you understand the glorious truth behind Jude 1:24, "Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy," you will understand that you don't have to worry about any bumps in the road. You don't have to worry...

Stumbling Block part 3

06/27/2021 18:46

I know I claim a lot of verses in the Bible as my favorite. I can't help it. I think the Bible is great. Anyway... here's another of my favorites: "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us srip off every weight that slows us down, especialy...

Stumbling Block part 2

06/26/2021 19:40

It's really just about putting others first. And by "it" I mean "love." Love is never about getting. Because love is giving. Giving everything you have and everything you are. Esteeming others higher than yourself. And I know this is something of a lost art these days. Because we seem to have...

Stumbling Block part 1

06/25/2021 16:37

I want to spend the next few days talking about something that really doesn't seem to be very popular these days--putting others first. Because it seems like in this age of "enlightenment" we had come to the conclusion that in order to live our best lives... we can't concern ourselves with the...

Recovery part 5

06/24/2021 19:25

Let's come at this another way to close this Rant series. We're talking about recovering our lives, right? Getting back to basics? Back to good? Back to where God always wanted us to be from the very beginning? And we've seen that the way to do that is to get away with Him. Learn from Him what it...

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