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Masking Words With Deceptive Phrases
“I just want to share with you what God has put on my heart.” In some cases (and I do mean some) this is a legitimate statement. God has indeed (in some cases) put something legitimate on the heart of a believer to speak to another believer. I think about Nathan to David concerning his… Read more
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Neglecting the Back Yard: Lessons Learned from Lawn Care.
Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. So, today I ended up coming home from work a little early to tackle our yard situation. The front yard needed to be cut…but it has only been about a week since I last cut it. And the back… Read more
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Don’t Slap Rocks…
Sometimes pastors must exhort their church in areas that they may be struggling in or could at least improve in. Perhaps it’s exhorting them to be more generous (as we have been doing in my church the last 5 weeks through our “We LOVE Giving” series about generosity)…or perhaps it’s about tithing…or perhaps it’s about… Read more
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The Faith Vacuum
This past week in my church a recurring theme kept ringing out. In our prayer time before service, during our worship, and even at the end of our service when we took up a HUGE offering for our property…the theme of abounding faith was ringing out clearly. Specifically, the example of Elijah (1 Kings 18:20-40… Read more
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The Most Important Election EVER
I’m sure you’ve heard from several sources over the last several months that this election is possibly the most important election EVER. And I tend to agree…but not for the reasons that you may suspect. You see the typical arguments for why this is an important election range from SCOTUS appointments to further advancements of abortion… Read more
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Racial Band-Aids
Growing up as a kid, when I would fall and get a scrape or cut myself somehow, my mother would apply a band-aid to my wound. But not BEFORE she kissed my boo-boo, washed the wound, and then applied some antiseptic ointment to keep bacteria and other nasties from infecting the wound, further agitating the… Read more