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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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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

The True Genius Bar

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Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens. (Psalm 68:19)

Have you ever felt like you are troubleshooting with your life?  I certainly have.  A troubleshooter is “a person skilled at solving or anticipating problems or difficulties (Webster’s Dictionary).”  And I should be clear that I feel more like the first part of this definition, a person becoming skilled at solving problems.  I can’t anticipate them very often, but they frequently come.  Let me give you some examples just in this last month…  The air conditioner broke down, the refrigerator door wouldn’t shut, the computer stopped working, my phone took a swim, the roof had a leak, and numerous other things have come up.  Each one God has helped Paul and I solve one by one.

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Keep it Simple

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Do you ever think about all the lessons you can learn in just one day?  How about all the lessons you learn in one week?  That’s what I’m sitting here thinking about right now.  Today I felt like there were at least 5 devotionals I could write off of things that happened throughout the day and that’s about average for me.  I’m constantly looking for ways to learn something new from God.  I desire to grow each and every day.  In fact, I hope at the end of the day I’m just a little bit stronger, a little bit wiser, and a little bit more dependent on my Heavenly Father.  I know I need more of God and less of me.  I pray at the end of each year, there is a whole lot more of God and a whole lot less of me.

This week I learned some interesting things about myself, I was convicted in some areas that needed to change, I saw God’s desire for healing in His people, I watched God work through my interactions with people, and so much more.  Let me take some time to share some of these lessons with you.  Let’s slow down and catch the lessons God has for us in each day!  Let’s keep it simple, God’s not about complicating things!  He can teach us the most amazing lessons in the most simple ways.  He will astound us, if we only let Him! Read more