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Focus part 1

07/06/2019 17:58

I think a big part of our problem, collectively, as a society, is that we just want to distract ourselves from our lives. Phones, games, TV, on demand... We watch TV shows about people watching TV shows. My son watches videos of people playing video games. Which I guess isn't really different than...

Heart part 5

07/05/2019 19:46

Your heart is the most important part of you. It is the part of you that makes you... you. Because that true you comes from the heart. Who you really are flows from deep within. That's why its so important to keep your heart with all diligence. To make sure you're keeping your heart... by keeping...

Heart part 4

07/04/2019 20:12

I've Ranted on this memory verse at length, but I don't think I can skip it in this Rant series. Its one of my favorites. "Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart" (Psalm 37:4). And, contrary to popular belief, or "conventional wisdom," I do not believe...

Heart part 3

07/03/2019 20:06

I want to take a little bit of a detour today. We're talking about the heart, right? About how before the cross--or before you begin to know and believe that God has given you His heart and it beats with love in your chest--all we could think about was trying to get what we thought we didn't have....

Heart part 2

07/02/2019 19:47

There was a time--cosmically speaking (if that's the right term)--where there was nothing in man's heart except, "I want, I want, I want." We were ruled by our desire because we thought we were missing something. And it was so important to fill that hole inside of us. The thing about that hole...

Heart part 1

07/01/2019 16:34

We ended the last Rant series with a memory verse about "purpose of heart." So I thought that was a good transition from a series about purpose to a series about the heart. And in order to really do the heart justice, I think we need to start at the beginning. The first time the word "heart" is...

Purpose part 5

06/30/2019 19:18

Trusting our purpose. Trusting that all things work together for good. Trusting God's grand scheme. That's what faith is. When Jesus said, "...Have faith in God" (Mark 11:22), He was saying, "Have faith in love." Because God IS love. And that's our purpose. That's why we were created. That's our...

Purpose part 4

06/29/2019 20:26

Our purpose is to be loved and to love. Period. To let God love us and let that love (that He has put in us) come out of us. To fill ourselves to overflowing with His love. To receive it and release. We get so twisted around so often though. We get caught up in things. We wreck ourselves instead of...

Purpose part 3

06/28/2019 19:50

On purpose. For purpose. By purpose. Knowing who we are, and knowing why we're here. And doing what we were created to do. Not doing things just to do them, but doing them purposefully. That's the difference between a wasting time and redeeming the time. Look at Ephesians 5:15-16, "See then that ye...

Purpose part 2

06/27/2019 17:52

Your EPIC destiny, your Eternal Purpose In Christ, is to be loved by God and to love Him back by loving people. That's as simple as a I can make it. That's why you were created. The God who is love created you in order to express Himself--His love--to you, and in you, and through you, and as you....

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