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Filled part 1

07/26/2019 19:35

One of my very favorite passages in Scripture (and I use the word "very" to distinguish it from all of my other favorite passages... you know, almost all of them) is Ephesians 3:16-19, "That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the...

Schism part 5

07/25/2019 19:52

"Love is control. I'll die if I let go." Song lyrics. But also how a large majority of people seem to feel. "If you loved me you would do A, B, and C." We use "love" as manipulation. Control. "I'm doing this because I love you." Are you? Or are you trying to get what you want? That's not love....

Schism part 4

07/24/2019 19:44

A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. When you're pulled in two different directions, always stuck in the middle, you need to choose a side. My memory verse for today is Philippians 2:2, "Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind."...

Schism part 3

07/23/2019 19:59

The way to get rid of the schism, the divide, is to let the (one, single) mind of Christ (that's already in you... BE in you. To use the mind you've been given. 1 Corinthians 2:16 says, "For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ." We HAVE the...

Schism part 2

07/22/2019 19:42

I'm going to start this Rant with the bottom line. With finally. "Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you" (2 Corinthians 13:11). Lots of talking. Lots of things to say. And then, when we get to the...

Schism part 1

07/21/2019 20:27

There's too much war going on. Internally, I mean. "Head vs heart" or whatever you want to call it. Paul wrote of it when describing being under the Law; doing what he didn't want to to do and not doing what he wanted to do. Being pulled in one direction but wanting to go in another. James 1:8...

Blind Spot part 5

07/20/2019 19:48

Second Peter chapter 1 lists a whole litany of things that should give diligence to and add to. I'm not going to quote the whole passage, or list all of them here. But its all those things like faith, virtue, knowledge, etc. What I want to quote, and focus on today, is 2 Peter 1:8-9, "For if these...

Blind Spot part 4

07/19/2019 19:46

Everybody has blind spots. Either things that they feel justified in doing--even though they are not the right things to do--or people that they let get away with murder because "That's just how they are." We all have those things and people that we just can't see correctly. That's why Jesus spoke...

Blind Spot part 3

07/18/2019 19:12

This is one of my favorite progressions in all of Scripture. And it has to do with seeing things the way they really are. Which has to do with our blind spots. Which is why I'm using it here. I try to use it as often as I can. Ready? Song of Solomon 1:5, "Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold thou...

Blind Spot part 2

07/17/2019 19:33

I'm gonna quote a memory verse tonight, but then I need to quote another one before I can really get into the first one. So that's at least two that we're going to talk about today. Ready? "I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou...

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