Tag: truth
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Love Means Sacrifice
“The King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.’” Matthew 25:40 Do you ever have a passage or scripture that just grabs you? Verses like this just…
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Faith, Hope, And How They’re Connected
This week let’s think about walking in faith. There are times that it is easy and times that it is hard. It is easy to walk in faith in the areas that you don’t really feel threatened. For most of us, the call to come to church isn’t hard because we aren’t threatened. The same…
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Truth and Trust
Have you said in your heart or heard a friend say, “I just don’t feel that God is very close to me.”? In that moment, although we may not realize it, we are wrestling with who to believe – our feelings or God. I think it matters who we believe! Let’s think today about that…
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Will We Simply Abide?
We want to know if God is happy with us. We want to know that we are secure in our relationship with Him. We want to know that He is not going to change His mind about us. How can we know that? The New Testament has this suggestion: abide in Him.
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Live the Word
Confidence. It can come naturally. It can also come from training. What about those of us who are naturally charismatic or haven’t gone through extensive training? Can we have real confidence to face either struggles or the naysayers of life? What can give everyday Christians the confidence of the apostles? Now as they observed the…
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We Can Worship
We read in the Psalms, “Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth. 2 Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before Him with joyful singing. 3 Know that the Lord Himself is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. 4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving And His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His…
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The Reality of Heaven
Last Sunday I preached about what the Bible says about Hell. It is a heart wrenching topic. To balance that heavy subject, this week I want to think about Heaven. The great struggle in modern Christianity is that both of these great teachings of the Bible are minimized in our pulpits. We need to embrace…
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When Reading God’s Word – Don’t Miss the Obvious
I hate it when I miss the obvious. For example, I can look for a book on my shelves for what seems like forever and can’t find it. Then, when all hope is gone, my wife comes along and grabs it right from the center of the shelf that I was just looking at! Arrrgh!…
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The Best Lies are Easy to Believe
John 8:44 “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar…
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When Faith Stretches our Life
The toughest time to walk by faith is when God asks you to walk by faith through something that is close to your heart. Even when we generally use our faith in spite of our feelings there are those times when something happens that hits close to home. Our faith is challenged in a place…
Pastor John D Jakes 