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Motive part 1

07/10/2020 20:12

I'm stuck on this idea of why we do what we do. And, as I was taught by my pastor, I'm going to preach it until my heart is empty on it. The cool thing about that is that I don't write because I think I know everything. I write, in large part, to explore. To find things out along the way. It's like...

Labor of Love part 5

07/09/2020 20:20

I always find the story of Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane interesting. And I've heard quite a bit of preaching about what Jesus actually meant when He asked for the cup to pass from Him. I don't want to get into all of that tonight. I simply want to focus on the truth--the immaculate,...

Labor of Love part 4

07/08/2020 20:02

This life is a labor of love. Because to live IS to love, and to love is to live. You can't have one without the other and you can't do one without the other. They aren't just connected, they are the same thing. The gift of God is His abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of love. And...

Labor of Love part 3

07/07/2020 19:35

Entering into rest is really the only "work," if I can put it that way, that is left. And that's only because while God made the Way of Grace, we have to respond to it with the Walk of Faith in order to experience and enjoy the gift we've been given. See, faith doesn't make something true. The...

Labor of Love part 2

07/06/2020 20:03

This is one of my favorite verses (all of them, I know) because on the face of it, it seems ridiculous and nonsensical, "Let us labour therefore to enter into rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief" (Hebrews 4:11). Makes it sound like, "hurry up and finish the work so you can...

Labor of Love part 1

07/05/2020 20:14

I like that phrase. "Labor of love." Because even though it could be perceived as having a slightly negative connotation, "I'm only doing this because I love you. I don't really want to though," it has the best motivation that there is for us to do anything. Ever. Look at Colossians 3:23, "And...

Preaching part 5

07/04/2020 19:25

What we have been given, we are to give. Receiving and releasing, right? We have been reconcilied, and we have been given the ministry of reconciliation. That's how it works. God fills us up and then lets us loose to empty ourselves out--which, by the way, is how we fill ourselves to overflowing...

Preaching part 4

07/03/2020 20:08

Preaching the gospel is something anybody can do. No matter where they are. No matter who--if anyone--is around. Because preaching the gospel is simply loving your environment. The people, places, and things you interact with. I remember reading a story once about this girl--it was supposed to be a...

Preaching part 3

07/02/2020 19:31

This is one that I like: "And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where" (Luke 9:6). And I like it because it, to me, kind of gives a qualifier to the gospel we should be preaching. If what you are saying isn't healing people--physically, mentally,...

Preaching part 2

07/01/2020 19:37

When I think of ministry, I usually think about preaching. You know, because I'm a preacher. I've been told that I'm a pretty good public speaker, and I know I'm a decent wordsmith. These Rants, and the YouTube videos... at this time and place that's a lot of what I do. But that's not ALL of what I...

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