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An Open Heart part 2

09/30/2018 19:47

Keeping--or guarding, or maintaining--your heart is not about closing it down. Its about keeping it open. Open to love. So that the love that IS inside can fill us up to overflowing and come out. Naturally. Look at our key verse again, "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the...

An Open Heart part 1

09/29/2018 19:53

The thing about the heart is that what's in it... comes out of it. If you have hatred, or bitterness, or sadness, or anger in your heart... that's what will come out. We really do live from the inside out. Because what's inside is always too big (no matter what it is) to stay inside. You've...

Builded Together part 5

09/28/2018 19:36

WE are the house of God--the temple of the Holy Spirit. And I emphasize WE because its not an "us vs them" thing. Its a "we're all in this together" thing. So WE need to stop causing so much separation. Between us and each other... and between us and God. Because there IS no separation between us...

Builded Together part 4

09/27/2018 19:45

We're all in this together. I think that's one of the most important truths that the majority of people seem to miss. Because all we seem to want to do is build walls. Draw lines in the sand. Make everything "us against them." Members Only club. And I understand where a lot of that comes from--it...

Builded Together part 3

09/26/2018 19:47

Let's talk about the cornerstone today. Because, as any carpenter will tell you... that's the important one. That's the one that everything else is measured off of. Let me say it in another way, "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he...

Builded Together part 2

09/25/2018 19:48

Let me quote my passage of Scripture again. Because I really want to pull some stuff out of it in this Rant series. Ephesians 2:19-22, "Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the...

Builded Together part 1

09/24/2018 19:54

Jesus was a carpenter, right? I think that's important. Because out of all of the professions in the world... our Lord and Savior was someone who built things. We think of God as an angry, distant diety sitting on a cloud waiting to strike us down. But that's the opposite of reality. Because in...

The Resurrection part 5

09/23/2018 19:47

The thing we seem to miss about what Jesus said in John 11:25, "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live" is the part after "and." The part where Jesus said, "I am the resurrection AND the life." He wasn't talking...

The Resurrection part 4

09/22/2018 19:11

Here's what we're talking about: Resurrection. Number 386 in Strong's Greek Concordance. "A standing up again, that is, (literally) a resurrection from death, or (figuratively) a (moral) recovery (of spiritual truth)." I love that. Because THE Spiritual truth--the ultimate truth of the universe--is...

The Resurrection part 3

09/21/2018 19:29

All I want to say in this Rant series (and all I think I've been saying) is that the resurrection is not in your future. Its in your past. Eternal life doesn't start when you die. It has always been and will always be. And we jump into this river of living water (so to speak) through the waters of...

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