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A Wondrous Protection
When I think of my mistakes I have a recurring question: How can I make it right? In my quest to right the wrongs of my own making, I have discovered there is a difference between acknowledging wrongs and constantly living under the crushing weight of guilt. The difference is grace. Here’s a newsflash (not…
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At Calvary – Episode 80 – Exchanging Truth for Lies
How do we get rid of guilt? The Bible’s antidote to guilt is the cross. How do folks who don’t want to give their life to Jesus attempt to get rid of guilt? They do it the way people have always rigged things. Rigged scales. Rigged games. Rigged life. All of it happens when we…
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Avoiding Blind Spots
Blind spots. I hate them in my cars. They cause accidents. They scare the livin’ daylights out of me. I hate them even more in my life. The problem of blind spots in life are two-fold – 1) I resist what it takes to remove them because 2) I create them! Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart…
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At Calvary – Episode 79 – Is Purity Popular?
Pure. Innocent. When did these words become insults rather than praises? Our culture treats the pure as if they are deficient in some way. The words innocent and naïve are treated as synonyms. Why do we do that? Paul explains in Romans 1 that this dismantling of purity is a symptom of humanity’s rejection of…
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Living by Grace Protects Us
As a Christian, I am very familiar with being saved by grace. The question I often have, though, is, “Do I live by grace?” Have you asked that question of yourself lately? Paul says, “By grace you have been saved through faith. And that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God. Not of…
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At Calvary – Episode 78 – Wise or Foolish?
When we think about fools, we usually think about those sophomoric characters in buddy movies. However, God has a different description – too wise for their own good. When we think we are wise without God, we are in danger. We are in danger of giving up what is real for a fantasy of our…
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When We Are Asked…
I have noticed that questions are effective tools for getting some one to talk. Questions (especially open ended ones) invite people to give their opinions or share their experiences. Questions also make people think. When thinking happens amazing things are the result. Matthew 16:13 13 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, He was…
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At Calvary – Episode 77 – When People Don’t Think about God
As we think about the suppression of truth, we might think of folks with agendas who are trying to influence how people think. We might think of Facebook, Twitter, or the media. Most of us don’t realize that such influencing started much earlier in our history. It started when mankind thought that honoring and thanking…
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Why Do I Believe?
I think about this question from time to time. These are not new thoughts, but I really do think that it does us good to be reminded why we first believed in Jesus. If you don’t believe in Jesus as the Savior of the world you should consider why you don’t. We don’t really believe…
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At Calvary – Episode 76 – Suppressing Truth, Suppressing People
God has declared that He is knowable. He tells us that He is not just knowable to those who have grown up in church. God has said that He is knowable to any who honestly just observe creation. So, why do so many people deny who God is? God says that it is because people…
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Pastor John D Jakes 