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Edification part 1

04/21/2020 20:12

I learned a long time ago that it does no good to do things just to do them. You need a reason. You need to know WHY you're doing what you're doing. You need to do things purposefully. With purpose. On purpose. By purpose. And I think that motivation really boils down to one thing: Love. Do things...

Hard Times part 5

04/20/2020 20:04

I've been trying to use this Rant series to encourage people. I think that's really the point of ministry. To edify people. To train them up in the way they should go. And so, to that effect, I want to end this Rant series by kind of looking at the other side of the coin. "And the disciples were...

Hard Times part 4

04/19/2020 19:48

I want to take two verses from two different psalms and link them together. Psalm 25:17, "The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses" and Psalm 34:6, "This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles." I think you can see where I'm...

Hard Times part 3

04/18/2020 19:42

As an unabashed wrestling fan when I thought of the title for this Rant series I immediately thought of the old school wrestler Big Boss Man. Which, by the by, is what I call my boss at work. "What's up, big boss man?" But I digress. Big Boss Man was a cop. And his theme song talked about if you...

Hard Times part 2

04/17/2020 20:16

Let me start with my memory verse. I don't usually like to, but it asks the question that I want to address today. "Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son" (Genesis 18:14). And there's really so...

Hard Times part 1

04/16/2020 20:08

There's a saying that goes, "Tough times don't last, but tough people do." I like that. All my life I've been told, "Tough it out." Which, I have to say, I think was a benefit. Because that caused me to believe I'm tough. Which allowed me to get through those tough times. Sometimes, though, we need...

High Esteem part 5

04/15/2020 19:59

Here's how important what we believe is: "I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean" (Romans 14:14). Let me say it another way, "And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be...

High Esteem part 4

04/14/2020 20:17

I think this is what I've been trying to say in this Rant series: "GOD is supremely esteemed. His center holds. Zion brims over wtih all that is just and right" (Isaiah 33:5 MSG). When we put the emphasis where it belongs, everything else falls into place. When God is the center, what's inside can...

High Esteem part 3

04/13/2020 20:04

When you esteem something (or someone) you are giving it a place of honor. Weight and importance. Esteeming others higher than ourselves is not thinking we're worse than anybody else. It's simply putting others first. Humilty is not thinking less of ourselves... it is thinking of ourselves less....

High Esteem part 2

04/12/2020 20:25

I'm a pretty low-key guy. Ask my wife. She'll tell you. If I say something is pretty legit, that's about the highest praise I have. When I was getting my first book published I told Jeff--the publisher--that a thumbs up from me meant jumping up and down with excitement. Which is what I was doing...

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