Growing up around church it is rare and I mean rare for me to stumble across a main theme or lightbulb in the Bible and not have heard it mentioned at some point. Now, I don’t mean something that I’ve heard before that’s just now registering (slow learner sometimes). That happens as we go through
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I don’t know if you’ve noticed by now, but there is an endless library of how we could live out our best lives possible if we really wanted to. And I say COULD because it depends on if we actually WOULD. All it takes is our WOULD. All of us COULD. The WOULD (or WILL)
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Ever heard of one of those? Or perhaps – “All hands on deck” – meaning “this message is to everyone”. We filter messages out so fast in our modern world and who can blame us? We get thousands a day (literally thousands). Verbal, non verbal, facial expressions, texts, memes, emails, social media, marketing, “news”, TV.
This past Sunday led us from Acts ch. 16 to 2nd Chronicles. It’s worth the journey, I promise. It’s pretty hard to look out at the world we all live in right now without some sort of reaction. That reaction could be passionately choosing a side, passively choosing to ignore or actively trying to figure
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“In the church world”… That’s how I began writing just now and it stopped me, I immediately thought… “What an odd, sad statement – “Church world” As if it’s its own world unattached or separated from the real world – and sadly, many times it is. Most of you know my heart and what inspires
“Free’s for me!” my brother-in-law always says. He considers it quite the accomplishment to get something for free. (my sister doesn’t exactly always agree…) He’ll say something like “You know how much I got this table for right here? Free99! I was at a customer’s house, they were getting rid of it and they just
James telling his story results in his guard giving his life to Jesus and being beheaded with him! Peter continues in ministry despite so many beatings and close calls. A samaritan woman meets Jesus and then goes and tells her whole village to come and do the same. 4 guys lower their friend down through
You ever meet or observe someone and think, “Who in THE WORLD is that!?” or maybe “Who in the world do they THINK they are?” This is the type of person that makes you question the moment or maybe even humanity as a whole! Things are going along rather ordinary, within acceptable limits and then
I don’t know about you but I have a hard time living a life that simply exists. Trees are for existing, flowers are for existing, grass exists. But us? We are not for merely existing yet we oftentimes allow ourselves positions in life where we literally just exist; and oftentimes we don’t even notice. As
Ever stick your neck out, go out on a limb, risk a thing because you believe in some other thing? Or perhaps gamble your standing in one area of your life because you are so sure about another area? Often we’re presented with these decisions and we weigh them out (pros and cons) trying to
