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It's About part 1

10/04/2019 18:57

It's about people. That's as simply as I can put it. Loving God and loving people. Loving God BY loving people. Which, believe it or not, means it's NOT about you. It's the difference between being self-centered (which is no good) and being God-centered, Christ-centered, people-centered. Being...

Witness part 5

10/03/2019 20:00

Let's end this Rant series with... not a warning, per se, but kind of the flip side of the coin we've been looking at. "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour" (Exodus 20:16). And if I'm not mistaken, that's one of the Ten Commandments. Don't be lying on people. Let me say it this...

Witness part 4

10/02/2019 20:05

"I saw the whole thing!" That's a valuable commodity. Because seeing is believing. Look at this: "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for...

Witness part 3

10/01/2019 20:01

Experience. That's what really makes or breaks us. Sometimes, occasionally, once in a blue moon, someone might be "naturally" good at something. Or, at least, it might appear that way. Because we don't often see what goes on behind the curtain. We don't see how much blood, sweat, and tears is shed...

Witness part 2

09/30/2019 19:59

"Did you see that?" Usually exclaimed in utter disbelief, hoping that someone else can verify what you think you just saw. Shared experience is much more powerful than individual experience. Look at Hebrews 12:1, "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let...

Witness part 1

09/29/2019 20:25

I try to make things simple. Probably because I consider myself a pretty simple guy. But also because I think this God thing--this LOVE thing--is way too important to make people jump through hoops to get it. Word Without Walls, right? I don't want to swim too deep that it's hard for people to hold...

Co-Dependent part 5

09/28/2019 18:51

When we stop looking at God as a taskmaster--someone who just tells us what to do and then we have to do it, or else--that's when we can stop working "for" Him and start working WITH Him. That's when we are truly co-laborers with Christ. Not trying to be Him, but letting Him be Himself in us, and...

Co-Dependent part 4

09/27/2019 20:11

God works in mysterious ways. Because He works through people. So the "co" part of this co-laboring, co-dependent relationship with God really does work both ways. Not that He depends on us because He HAS to, but because He CHOOSES to. If anybody has to depend on anybody, it is us depending on Him....

Co-Dependent part 3

09/26/2019 20:05

I think one of the most important words in the English language is "with." Especially when we're talking about relationships. Being a co-laborer. Doing things together. I can tell you, from experience, that if you say to someone "Come do this with me," it is SO much more well received than, "Can...

Co-Dependent part 2

09/25/2019 20:22

I don't know why, but I can vividly remember a scene from one of my previous jobs. At the time I worked for a car dealership. Washing cars. There were about half a dozen of us, and... let's just say we had to think creatively to make the job fun. To make the days go by. So one day, one of the other...

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