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Priorities part 1

08/19/2020 19:34

What you feed is what will grow. What you magnify in your life is what will manifest in your life. In other words, priorites are important. What you give your three t's (Time, Talent, Treasure) to is what, in a very real way, defines your life. That, to me, is why so many people are so miserable....

Stand Fast part 5

08/18/2020 19:34

Standing fast in your liberty means holding onto it for dear life. Look at 1 Timothy 6:12, "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses." And this is how I look at that--we have already been...

Stand Fast part 4

08/17/2020 19:32

Some people aren't ready for freedom. That's just a plain and simple fact. And, listen, don't judge them too harshly. People know what they've experienced. A lot of times it goes all the way back to those cruical formative years. Which is why I love Proverbs 22:6 so much, "Train up a child in the...

Stand Fast part 3

08/16/2020 20:33

In order to stand fast in your liberty, your freedom, you must know that you are free. And you must know what it means to BE free. Not using your liberty for an occasion of the flesh, but using it to love people. Because that's what freedom is. To live is to love and to love is to live. To be free...

Stand Fast part 2

08/15/2020 20:05

Here, in a nutshell, is what I'm trying to say in this Rant series: "For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another" (Galatians 5:13). That's as simple as I (or Paul) can make it. It's not freedom TO sin. It's...

Stand Fast part 1

08/14/2020 20:08

Full disclosure: I am a bit "don't tread on me." I agree with Ben Franklin's famous quote, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, right? Having said that, I want to spend...

Escape Hatch part 5

08/13/2020 19:52

Let me drop my memory verse first, which is not my favorite thing to do, but I think in this case we need to know what the Scripture says so I can build off of it. "To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto him, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us...

Escape Hatch part 4

08/12/2020 19:48

I try to quote this memory verse a lot, because I love it. But I think I use it in a rather non-traditional way. Ready? Romans 10:13, "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." The religious folk use that as a ticket to heaven, right? With the alternative being, "If you...

Escape Hatch part 3

08/11/2020 20:13

You can't escape from your life. In the sense of "getting out of it" or avoiding it. Ninety percent of life is just showing up. And we know that God cares more about availability than ability. What you're willing to do is more important than what you think you're capable of doing. And, listen, I...

Escape Hatch part 2

08/10/2020 19:50

In reality, "escaping" things is less about avoiding them and more about getting through them. Enduring them. Coming out stronger on the other side. And that is what we are promised, over and over again, in the Bible. Look at 1 Corinthians 10:13, "There hath no tempation taken you but such as is...

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