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Time part 1

11/13/2019 20:10

Of the Three T's (Time, Talent, Treasure) I think this is the most important one. Because I think children--and really people in general--spell love "T-I-M-E." You can always make more money. And talent is something that eveybody has (it's just a matter of using it). But time, once it is spent,...

Talent part 5

11/12/2019 20:10

Time, Talent, Treasure. The Three T's. The way we express love. The way we express GOD'S love. To Him. By letting Him first love us and then loving Him back by loving each other. So when we're looking at "Whatsoever you do, do it unto the Lord," what that really means is... love people. Because we...

Talent part 4

11/11/2019 20:14

You have what you need in order to be who you are. The problem is that we think we don't matter. That our talent isn't good enough. That WE aren't good enough. Or we think that because we can't do something like so and so does it, we might as well not even do what we can do. I can't draw... so I...

Talent part 3

11/10/2019 16:28

It seems to me that there are two kinds of people in this world: Those who try as hard as they can to be someone they're not, in order to "fit in" or impress other people... and those who don't care what other people think. And I've noticed that the latter category is a lot more rare than the...

Talent part 2

11/09/2019 20:24

This is one of my favorite memory verses (and yes I know I say that about most of, if not all of, them): "And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men" (Colossians 3:23). And to me, doing things heartily means two things. 1. Doing things to the best of our ability. 2....

Talent part 1

11/08/2019 19:57

This one is tricky. Because, in my experience, those people with talent--true talent--are usually pretty modest about it. I knew someone, once upon a time, who could draw really well. Like... it blew me away. Partly becasue I can't draw a stick figure with a ruler, but still. And yet, this person...

Treasure part 5

11/07/2019 20:24

I think I kind of tried to mention this parable so I want to close this Rant series with it: Matthew 13:45-46, "Again, the kindgom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it." Now, to me,...

Treasure part 4

11/06/2019 20:04

At this point in my life I'm not super interested in "good vs evil." I've Ranted and preached about this idea quite a bit. How the tree of knowledge of good and evil (the tree of death) had both of them on the same tree. About how we would swing like monkeys from one branch to the other, doing good...

Treasure part 3

11/05/2019 19:55

Where your treasure is, your heart also will be. Because your treasure is what is important to you. And that goes beyond just money. You can't serve God and mammon. Because God is love, and love is giving. Mammon is greed... getting. You can't do both. If your focus is on getting, then obviously...

Treasure part 2

11/04/2019 19:58

The three T's (time, talent, and treasure) are what we have in this world. What we can use to live this life. Which means we ought to use them to love people. Because that's what this life is for. To live is to love and to love is to live. We don't--or I should say we shouldn't--use our time and...

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