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Vanity part 1

05/01/2020 20:32

"Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity" (Ecclesiastes 1:2). It feels like that sometimes, doesn't it? Like no matter what you do you're always trying to get to the top of the hill... and you're always just sliding further and further down the slope. One step...

Sufficiency part 5

04/30/2020 20:11

I think this is a good--right--way to end this Rant series: "Be very sure now, you who have been trained to a self-sufficient maturity, that you enter into a generous common life with those who have trained you, sharing all the good things that you have and experience" (Galatians 6:6 MSG). The...

Sufficiency part 4

04/29/2020 19:53

I started this Rant series with the memory verse 2 Corinthians 3:5, "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God." And my point has been that we are "self"-sufficient only when we find everything we need in Him. Which means we find it in...

Sufficiency part 3

04/28/2020 19:49

We have everything we need because we have everyONE we need. Jesus. Each other. That's where our "self"-sufficiency comes from. Look at 2 Corinthians 12:9, "And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory...

Sufficiency part 2

04/27/2020 20:31

I have no lack because my God has no lack. And because I have you. We're all in this together. We complete each other. No, really, we do. There are things that I can't do, but there are also things that only you CAN do. That's why it's so important for me to stay in my lane. To do what I was...

Sufficiency part 1

04/26/2020 20:33

I remember one time when I used to preach on a regular basis I was doing a series--much like a Rant series, yes sir, I am who I am--but for whatever reason it made sense for me to break from that and do a one off message. And the message was about self-sufficiency. When I was done one of the people...

Edification part 5

04/25/2020 20:12

It's hard to deal with disappointment. It really is. But that's the thing about expectations--they almost always LEAD to disappointments. Because humans aren't robots. They are humans. They don't always (or ever, really) do what we want them to do. They do what THEY want to do. The nerve, right?...

Edification part 4

04/24/2020 20:03

I keep saying it, and I'm going to keep saying it: We're all in this together. So check this out: "Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do" (1 Thessalonians 5:11). Comfort yourselves together. Because we're all in this together. Edify one another. It's a...

Edification part 3

04/23/2020 19:53

I don't know why it seems like it's easier to break things down than to build them up. Especially when one of those (the building) is so much more postive and important. Train a child up in the way he SHOULD go and he will not depart from it. Set that strong foundation and build on it. "For other...

Edification part 2

04/22/2020 20:19

This is what I think I've kind of been stuck on: How we act should be more focused on others than on ourselves. We should esteem others higher than ourselves. We should know and believe that God has US covered, so that we can then cover each other. "Look not every man on his own things, but every...

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