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The messsage was sent in love. And the message is love. But the message also has a response required from us – believe. What are we to believe? Again, simple and profound. We are to believe: -that God always had us in mind and was working toward a re-establishment of relationship, -that Jesus, His Son, […]

The message that we, His ambassadors, are to deliver is incredibly simple and profound – love. That’s it really. Because when you say ‘love’ you say a host of things and it translates into a behavior that is equally simple and profound. It’s been we, His people, that have complicated everything and begun adding other

Almost by definition, ‘first step’ implies that there are more steps to be taken. Even if the only act you make is to take a second step to be parallel (balanced) to the initial step. The first step is the most important decision you’ll ever make, but once made, everything opens up to you –

I’ve always believed that the message was the most important of the two: message, messenger. It was critical to state the message clearly, concise and in the ‘voice’ of the sender. The messenger needed to not get in the way of the message. If I wanted someone to understand what was being said, regardless of

Do you consider yourself a work in progress? I certainly am. I am far from being ‘complete’ but, and this is the important point, I am in progress. I am not standing still because that would mean I was moving backwards (think about it). And, this is exciting! Every day the Lord is working with

What is it? And is it really important? What’s the absence of commitment?Commitment is believing in and acting on something regardless of knowing the results of your efforts. It is believing in/being totally sold out to/on an idea/person that you’ll spend your time and energy to accomplish. And yes, you can go through your entire

What is it? What does it mean? What does it require? … Why me!!!!Actually, everyone is constantly witnessing by their actions, by their words. You are, consciously or not, ‘witnessing’ to what you think, what you believe – every moment! One way of considering what a witness is/does is to consider what happens in court:

Do you have one? Actually, vision is so important that the Word tells us we will perish for the lack of one! This is not something to be taken lightly. So what, exactly, is a ‘vision’? Vision is the motivating force that propels us toward our future, our destiny. Vision is the panoramic ‘big picture’

I know, I know…. everyone has written on the Lord’s Prayer countless times. Sometimes we almost seem too familiar with it and don’t really see or appreciate it. The prayer is incredibly powerful because it was given by Jesus in answer to a question by His disciples. By watching Him they all noticed that often

In an earlier post I talked about being fruitful. You will bear fruit, everyone does, the question is whether or not the fruit is good, lasts or not. If your mindset is to bear good fruit then you have a context to determine whether or not your words and actions accomplish this goal or work