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Rally Cap part 2

07/02/2018 19:27

When your team is down in the bottom of the ninth, you flip your cap around and cheer like crazy. Does it actually help? I mean, it surely doesn't hurt. And the point is that you're doing something. Giving everything you've got to try to fuel a comeback. And who doesn't like a good comeback story?...

Rally Cap part 1

07/01/2018 14:41

I want to spend the next few days just really encouraging people. Because, as Rocky Balboa said, "Nobody hits harder than life." We all get knocked down sometimes. But my key verse for this Rant series is Proverbs 24:16, "For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall...

Neighbor part 5

06/30/2018 19:42

I always say, "If you don't know what to do, do what you know." And what we know (hopefully, by now) is love. God loves us, and we love Him back by loving each other. We receive and release His love. That's what its all about. To me, being neighborly. Loving the people that are close to us. And I...

Nieghbor part 4

06/29/2018 19:48

What if, "Just being neighborly," meant more than picking up someone's mail for them when they went out of town? What if it meant loving them like they were your favorite? Giving everything you have and everything you are for someone, just because they are a person. And because they are a person,...

Neighbor part 3

06/28/2018 19:48

As my father says (at any given occasion), "You can never be too nice to people." Biblically, "Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification" (Romans 15:2). And this goes with what I was Ranting about in the last series--more than just working no ill... do good. Because love...

Neighbor part 2

06/27/2018 19:36

Would you be my, could you be my, won't you be my neighbor? Even in the not so distant future, that word "neighbor" meant something. I think we've possibly lost a lot of it these days... I think it went the way of family dinners. People don't seem to want to know their neighbors anymore. Much less...

Neighbor part 1

06/26/2018 19:43

I'm stuck on this idea of treating everybody like they're your favorite. Showing love to them, in other words. So I want to spend a few days looking at the idea of our neighbor. And to do that I need to lay a foundation of a little bit of Scripture. Ready? Ok. "And, behold, a certain lawyer stood...

No Ill part 5

06/25/2018 19:45

I have long thought that its important to have someone in your life that you are absolutely crazy about. And someone that is absolutely crazy about you. And in my case, for the last almost seven years, that has been the same person. My mini-me. My son. Logan. I always tell people, one of my...

No Ill part 4

06/24/2018 19:46

Perfect love fulfills the Law. Because everything--including the Law--is about love. Nothing was created except by, and through, and because of love. The God who IS love wanted to express Himself. So He created you and me. So that He could love us. So that He could love THROUGH us. In us. As us....

No Ill part 3

06/23/2018 19:33

Let's talk about the Law a little bit. I know, its not my favorite subject either. But our memory verse for this Rant series, Romans 13:10, says, "Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." And I don't want to ignore that last part. I want to say a few...

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