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Blind Spot part 1

07/16/2019 19:00

Jesus had a lot to say about blindness. One of my favorites is, "...Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?" (Luke 6:39). Mostly because its a little bit cheeky and it sounds cool. But what's really interesting to me is that Jesus came to give sight to the blind......

Lack part 5

07/15/2019 18:21

Living your life from a place of thinking--thinking you don't have enough, or that you yourself are not enough--is the worst way to live. Because you'll always be chasing what you think you don't have. You'll always try to be someone you're not. Look at John 10:8-10, "All that ever came before me...

Lack part 4

07/14/2019 18:13

"I must not fear. Fear is the mindkiller. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration." That's from the book Dune, but Frank Herbert. I've used this quote before, but its pretty powerful. And I think it fits when we're talking about lack. Because really, what is lack but a fear of not...

Lack part 3

07/13/2019 19:25

The thing about lack--about having a mindset where we think we lack something--is that feeling like you're less than will always make you chase that thing that you think you lack. You'll always try to do in order to be. You'll get stuck in man-centered, performance based religion. Running around...

Lack part 2

07/12/2019 18:51

I have no lack because my God has no lack. John 1:3 says, "All things were made by him; and without him was not anything thing made that was made." Jesus, the Creator of all, gave His all to us. He wanted us to have His abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life... so He gave it to us. He...

Lack part 1

07/11/2019 19:46

You guys know how I feel about this, so I'll just put it out there right from the jump: We have no lack because our God has not lack. God, the Creator of everything, doesn't need anything. He says so pretty specifically in Psalm 50:12, "If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is...

Focus part 5

07/10/2019 15:15

To end this Rant series I want to flip the script a little bit. We've been talking about what WE need to focus on--our goals, the path we want to walk... love--but look at Ephesians 1:4 in the Message Bible. It tells us what GOD is focused on: "Long before he laid down earth's foundations, he had...

Focus part 4

07/09/2019 20:02

If you don't know where you're going--or where you want to go--its going to be hard to get there. If you're not focused on your goals, you're probably not going to achieve them. That's kind of what my memory verse for tonight says. "Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established"...

Focus part 3

07/08/2019 19:47

If you're anything like me, you have a lot going on. Whether you want to or not. Because that's life. That's what happens on a day to day basis. I always say, "The hardest part of life... is living." But, to be fair, the most beautiful part of life is living. Because to live is to love, and to love...

Focus part 2

07/07/2019 18:53

Its easy to get distracted. To focus on the wrong things. To let our expectations sabotage us. But just because its easy doesn't mean its right. Sometimes the hard thing to do is the right thing to do. Or sometimes the right thing to do is... nothing at all. And I know that's hard for some people....

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