Can’t take the credit… my friend Keith penned and pinned the following to one of my posts that I really felt was apt: “Faith without works is dead! Love without expression is dead! Hope without articulation is dead! Worship without the spirit and truth is dead! The Body without the Spirit is dead! Have no […]
I ask a lot of questions though I rarely give answers. There are a couple of reasons for this … one is I don’t like to teach and write from the answer. Teaching, writing from the question is far more creative and fun. And yet, when it is spiritual matters there really is only one
Definitions are important! Mandatory even. Without them we really don’t know if we are speaking the same ‘language’. You (listener/reader) may not agree with the speaker/writer’s definition, but at least you know why they are saying what they are saying. However we can never use our definitions as litmus tests. One of the fun opportunities
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Today now is. The mistakes, sins, boo boos of yesterday are over. Absolutely! Learn from them but also learn from the positives as well – and accentuate those. The not so positives and sins – run to Jesus and even if you’ve committed them before – remember 1 John 1:9 which gives a way to
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but they DO come. They are an expression of our faith. Faith comes first because without it the works have no foundation. James 2:17-20 ” So too, faith, if it does not have works [to back it up], is by itself dead [inoperative and ineffective].” (v. 17) Had you ever thought and applied this to
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“For Jesus doesn’t change — yesterday, today, tomorrow, He’s always totally himself.” [Hebrews13:8. MSG] I believe most of us are familiar with that verse. It gives us comfort to know that the Lord is not a man that He should lie (Numbers 23:19). We can count on the indisputable fact that He will complete what
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” So we see that they were not able to enter [into His rest—the promised land] because of unbelief and an unwillingness to trust in God. Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still remains and is freely offered today, let us fear, in case any one of you may seem to come short
Strange title? The word just kinda jumped up at me. Do you know what it means? If your question is: is it really relevant for me? The answer is a resounding – YES! In it’s simplest and beginning definition it would mean taking an idea, concept, belief and making that part of your frame of
Are you the searcher type? Do you like to dig in to whatever is interesting or intriguing you at the moment to discover ‘more’? Now… do you apply this to you and growing in the Lord? Do you apply the search mentality to scripture? One of the scriptures that has always intrigued me is: “None
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Important? What is redemption and do you think about this very often? Actually… are you? Redeemed is more than freedom from what has been. I could be completely wrong, but… I also look at it as an invitation into what can be. Dictionary.com defines redeem, redeemed, redemption as: “adjective – Theology. (in Christianity)having been saved
Just write down any questions that you may have and I will get back to you in a jiffy!