Tag: life
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4 questions that check the reality of our faith (part 2)
Consider an athlete. No athlete can become an athlete without exertion and pain. They have to train. They have to stretch those muscles in new ways. They have to work through pain to get to the next level of performance. Why do they do it?
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For the Person Who Has It All
1 Timothy 6:6-8 But godliness actually is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment. For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either. If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content. Do you every wonder if we are like the person…
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Trust is about Truth
Have you said in your heart or heard a friend say, “I just don’t feel that God is very close to me.” I want to think today about that word ‘feel’…
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God’s Love Shown
How do we know people love us? Sometimes we know because they tell us. However, most often we know that people love us because of what they do. These actions are pictures of love. One of the great surprises we experience in life is the love of others. We are surprised that others value us. …
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Contentment – A New Way to Look at Life
Godliness actually is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment. For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either. If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content. – 1 Timothy 6:6-8 In our advertising saturated world, the concept of contentment is…
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Trapped!
Galatians 4:17 They eagerly seek you, not commendably, but they wish to shut you out so that you will seek them… 21 Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the law? A parable… Matthew 12:43 “Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through…
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Live by the Spirit
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. – Galatians 5 This week I want us to think about how God’s transformation works in us. I do mean transformation. God isn’t just…
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‘Thinking on the Unity of God’
Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! Although I am aware that this verse is talking about the fact that there is only one true God, it gets me thinking about how often I treat God as if He is several beings. Let me explain… When I pray,…
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Why the Resurrection
Have you recently considered the claims of the Scripture? No, I don’t mean the claims of people who carry the Bible – they could have an agenda. I mean, have you really read what the New Testament claims about Jesus? It isn’t a message of morality. The New Testament does not have a simple respect…