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The Power of Life and Death

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A man of knowledge uses words with restraint, and a man of understanding is even-tempered. (Proverbs 17:27)

Are you using your words sparingly?  A man and woman who seeks God first will choose to use words that heal, not harm.  Words that produce character in someone else, not destroy, or demean it.  Our words should build people up, not tear them down.  What’s your tone like in a conversation?  Have you maintained eye contact to let someone know you really care about what they are saying?

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True Love

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How full is your love meter these days?  Have you been loving others in the way that God loves you?  Love means not being critical, judgmental, and bitter towards others.  Love means putting on the fullness of Christ and walking out the righteousness we’ve been called to daily.  Let’s check in with the Apostle John and see just how well we’re doing with this whole Love thing!

Dear friends, let us love one another…

John starts out this passage of Scripture with an appeal in brotherly love.  “Dear friends…”  We are all in this journey of life together, now let us do the one thing that will make this journey go well…  Let us love one another!  “Let us…”  There is an opportunity that is awaiting us in this passage of Scripture, an opportunity to love and soon we will find out why we have been given such an extraordinary experience!

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Facing Goliath ~ Part 2

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If God is for us, who can be against us?  (Romans 8:31, NIV)

Facing Goliath ~ Part 1

Let’s step back into the story of David and Goliath.  I left you with three steps to take down your enemy.  Now I want to teach you how to be a victorious warrior for Christ!  How are we supposed to step on to the battlefield.  Let’s find out through the next few verses in 1 Samuel 17.

The battle lines have been drawn.  Goliath and his army are camped out on one side of the valley, while Saul and the Israelites are camped out on the other.  Who will make the first move?

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Facing Goliath ~ Part 1

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You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty…  All those gathered here today will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves, for the battle is the Lord’s… (1 Samuel 17:45, 47, David to Goliath the Philistine)

Do you ever feel like you’re lining up for battle?  What or who is the Goliath you face in your life?  Have you gotten to the place where you can speak these words to your Goliath?

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Broken Pieces Make…

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 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together.  One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:  ‘Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?’  Jesus replied, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  This is the first and greatest commandment.  And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.  All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments. (Matthew 22:34-40

…a Beautiful Work of Art in the Master’s Hands!!!

Take time to imagine what it would have been like to be an eye witness on this crime scene.  Here Jesus is, a man without sin, healing the sick, casting out demons, feeding the hungry, teaching the lost, and those who were more concerned about the law tried to trap Him.  They didn’t like how He showed up on the scene.  They wanted to expose Him as a fraud, so they continued to scheme behind the scenes.   When Jesus silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees decided to take a shot at Him.  They even sent their very best to ask the question they thought would get Jesus into trouble. Read more