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Affection part 1

03/02/2020 20:00

Back in the day there was a wrestler, well, a manager, named Brother Love. And his catchphrase was, "I LOOOOOVVVVEEE YOU!" But another thing he would say is, "I love you, but that doesn't mean I like you." Which stuck with me, obviously, because I still remember it to this day. I always thought...

Revelation part 5

03/01/2020 19:53

Here it is: "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him" (Ephesians 1:17). A Spirit of wisdom and revelation. In the knowledge of Him. We really are kind of like my mom's favorite t-shirt sometimes. It...

Revelation part 4

02/29/2020 19:58

What was hidden that needed (and in some cases still needs) to be uncovered (or revealed)? What are we talking about here? What's it all about? Well, in a Word... love! It's all about love. Everything we do is controlled by love. Because either we think we don't have it and we do everything we do...

Revelation part 3

02/28/2020 19:39

I think it's kind of funny how religious folk always want to talk about God being a mystery. "The Lord works in mysterious ways." And I guess, to some degree, that's true in as much as the Lord works through people, and people are mysterious. But the only real mystery about God (LOVE) is "How could...

Revelation part 2

02/27/2020 20:09

People either love or hate the book of Revelation. Either use it as a club or avoid it completely. There doesn't seem to be much of an in between. Which is weird to me. Because I've read the book of Revelation. And it's the Revelation of Jesus. It's an in-depth look at the cross. It doesn't show...

Revelation part 1

02/26/2020 19:51

This isn't necessarily about the book of Revelation. Though we might go there. We'll see. This is about Galatians 1:12, "For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ." This is about our personal relationship with Jesus. About knowing what we know...

Living Sacrifice part 5

02/25/2020 19:41

Laying your life down for your friends is the greatest love you can have. But that doesn't necessarily mean literally, physically dying. That does happen. Soldiers defending their nation, or religious martyrs. Things like that. But more practically, it simply means putting others first. Not...

Living Sacrifice part 4

02/24/2020 19:56

To me, the key word in the phrase "living sacrifice" is LIVING. I know it seems too simple to be true, but the point of life... is living. Jesus came that we might have life, and have it more abundantly. We seem so preoccupied with the afterlife. To the point that we miss out on the life we've been...

Living Sacrifice part 3

02/23/2020 19:56

Somehow I think we still think of sacrifice--especially in the religious sense--as chopping up animals on an altar. Even though that's not what we do these days, even in church. That still seems to be the mindset. Somehow. For some reason. On the other hand, when I think of sacrificing something,...

Living Sacrifice part 2

02/22/2020 21:10

We present our bodies to the Lord as a living sacrifice... by living. That's the thrust of what I want to say in this Rant series. Because I think too often we get so caught up in the afterlife--"do you know where you're going when you die?"--that we lose sight of the life that we have now. And let...

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