The Tethered Self
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7 Good Things about Stepping Out
7 Good Things about Stepping Out. You may not know where you are going, but you can be confident that the One who has called you will get you there. Genesis 12:1
HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE FOUR SPIRITUAL LAWS?
Have you Heard of the Four Spiritual Laws? Law one: 1. God loves you and offers a wonderful plan for your life.
Broken Heart
A heart can be broken when placed in the hands of those who do not value its precious nature. Thankfully God can restore a broken heart.
Bearing Fruit
Bearing Fruit: “The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results.” James 5:16
You Are What You Eat
How many of our inputs carry God’s voice and his values into our hearts? Influences to our heart are like food for the body. Good or bad.
Happy Holidays? Halloween?
Historically, Halloween was a Christian holiday known as "All Hallows Eve," since the following day was "All Saints Day," What happened?
Coming Alongside
We don't save anybody, convince anybody, "win" anybody to Christ or close the deal. All that is God's business.
God, the Healer of Broken Hearts!
"He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds [curing their pains and their sorrows]." Psalm 147:3 "THE SPIRIT of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed and qualified Me…
‘Don’t you know who I am?’
I’ve spent most of my life believing I was better than everybody else. Would you feel at home in an AA meeting or out of sorts?
Know Pain, Know Gain
The author of Hebrews presents this paradigm — failure, pain, and hardship as essential to future victory — as a way God shapes his children
A Daily Blessing
“I ask the Father in his great glory to give you the power to be strong inwardly through his Spirit.” Ephesians 3:16 (NCV) A blessing.
Denying God
"I pray that your confidence is found in Christ for such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God. 2 Corinthians 3:4-
The Stones Cry Out
If the stones were to speak, they could tell of how God took them from the quarry, shaped them, and made them fit for the temple. We too can testify of all the ways…
Where Grace Abounds?
If a recently released Christian prisoner came to your church, would he feel welcome? Would you welcome him?
Agents of the Holy Spirit
We are agents of the Holy Spirit. We simply tell the truth about God and His word, and let it stand at that.
A Voice for Good
A number of weeks ago I came across a prayer request that spoke of violence in the home, abuse the writer didn’t know how to handle.
We are His Friends
Through the enabling of the Holy Spirit, I will begin to see myself as God sees me: loved, forgiven, holy, righteous, spiritually mature, aggressive and fruitful for the glory of God. Today I will…
Truck, Tent … Soul
Last summer, I discovered a young couple (19 & 20 years old) living in their truck in the shade of a big oak tree at our church
Rest in the Storm
When my illusions of control are shattered, I tend to panic, internally and externally.
Remembering God’s Blessings
“I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart; I will tell of all Your wonders. I will be glad and exult in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O…
Conformity
How does conformity occur today? The tendency to conform occurs in small groups or in society as a whole, and may result from subtle, unconscious influences