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2022: New Creations, New Year
What does it mean to have a new start? To dispose of an old life and take on a new? To be reborn when the old self was dying? While there are many ways the secular world perceives this transformation to be, there is only one way we truly change and transform into a new…
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Alpha or Omega?
There is a worldly practice we have been indoctrinated with that makes it a point to go first or be first. In the world’s culture, winning is everything, but winning means always coming first. Yet, in a kingdom culture, we are not to be first for the sake of being first, but the first in…
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The Highest Acts of Love
There may be an unsettled feeling like something is missing or out of place that keeps us from properly receiving and enjoying gifts or receiving the peace and joy that should come with spending time with each other. Something is amiss!
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Jesus Credit
It’s giving time as all across the world, as we begin celebrating Christmas by giving each other gifts to show our love for them and to remind us of what the wise men did in the story of the birth of Jesus. That it is wise to give. “Do to others as you would have…
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Rejection & Persecution with Christ
Feeling rejected? What little matter it is to feel rejected by man when you are fully accepted unto God through Christ. “For the Lord will not cast off His people, Nor will He forsake His inheritance.” Psalms 94:14 Feeling persecuted? Those who follow Jesus must expect that days of persecution will come, but those who…
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Generosity of Jesus
In the time of year most known for giving, there will be many who will never receive. They are the poor and the impoverished, but they are unquestionably loved by God. “He who has pity on the poor lends to the Lord, And He will pay back what he has given.” Proverbs 19:17 Let…
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Are Your Ears “ON”?
“Whoever has ears, let them hear.” Matthew 11:15 There are 14+ instances of this phrase in most translations of the Bible. Why does it say this? Is it because we have a hard time hearing our Lord? Is it because something prevents us from hearing and the Lord commands a spirit to allow us to…
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The Sin of a Cynic
Cynic (noun) an inclination to believe that people are motivated purely by self-interest; skepticism. 1550s, “one of the ancient sect of philosophy founded by Antisthenes,” from Latinized form of Greek kynikos “a follower of Antisthenes,” literally “dog-like,” from kyōn (genitive kynos) “dog” (from PIE root *kwon- “dog”). To be unhopeful, doubtful, skeptical, and pessimistic of…
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Acts of Service
It’s still time to rake, pile, and dispose of tree leaves and I’ve been hearing the noisy grumblings of people without trees complaining about having to pick up leaves of their neighbors. “It’s not fair!” Sometimes, we have to take another look at these kinds of problems. Did the neighbor intentionally mean to put their…
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The False Gospel of Convenience
The world preaches to us its Veruca Salt gospel of getting our best life now, getting our money now, buying all the stuff now, and having it all, “right now!” But like the fate of Veruca in the tale of Willy Wonka and Chocolate factory, the world will show us the sin of the desires…