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Manifested part 1

01/12/2020 21:07

I'm sure you've heard me say this, "What you magnify in your life is what will manifest in you life." That's what I want to Rant about for the next few days. Because I absolutely believe it. And here's the key: It has to BE in your life in order for you to magnify it. Magnifying something is...

Extravagance part 5

01/11/2020 19:35

God has (and will, and is, and does) lavished His extravagant love on us. He filled us up with it when He filled us up with Himself. When He filled us up with His Spirit. When He gave us a heart transplant--and underwater surgery in the waters of baptism, if I can say it that way--and put His heart...

Extravagance part 4

01/10/2020 19:27

Here's a question, and an answer. "Have you ever come on anything quite like this extravangant generosity of God, this deep, deep wisdom? It's way over our heads. We'll never figure it out" (Romans 11:33 MSG). We've never come on anything quite like this extravagant love of God. We haven't. We...

Extravagance part 3

01/09/2020 20:43

The idea that we have a stingy heavenly Father is really a pretty poor, pretty sad one. Because it is the exact opposite of the truth. Look at Ephesians 1:6-7 in the Message Bible, "Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!)...

Extravagance part 2

01/08/2020 20:01

Receiving and releasing. That's kind of my mantra. That's the Divine Order of things. God has given us everything He has and everything He is. Because He loves us. The way of grace. Which we respond to with the walk of faith. And that's kind of what I want to talk about tonight: "Oh, the utter...

Extravagance part 1

01/07/2020 19:49

I like to focus on the little things. It's true. Because I believe the little things ARE the big things. Listening when someone needs to talk. Being there for someone. Giving a hug. Or even a fist bump. Just showing people you care in little ways. That can make all the difference. But for the next...

The Law part 5

01/06/2020 20:02

I really don't know what else to say about the law. James 2:8 says it all, "If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well." It's not a set of rules that you have to follow. It's not doing something so you don't get in trouble. It's the...

The Law part 4

01/05/2020 20:02

You all know by now that I like the Law of First Mention. Which may or may not be ironic, here in this Rant series about the Law. Anyway. Genesis 11:31, "And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth...

The Law part 3

01/04/2020 19:53

We look at the law as something we have to follow or else, right? But let me just throw a little something something at you. "Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression." Where there is no law, it is impossible to break the law, right? That makes sense. A law that...

The Law part 2

01/03/2020 18:37

Only when the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus totally consumes us can we BE free from the law of sin and death. God's law has already made us free from the other law. That doesn't need to happen. That already happened. But while the truth has made us free... it is the truth that we know...

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