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Together part 1

06/06/2019 19:49

I say this all the time: We're all in this together. Unfortunately, we seem to want to draw lines in the sand at every and any opportunity. Me on one side, you on the other. We--especially religious folk--always seem to want something to fight against. Like we think we're not doing our part unless...

Refuge part 5

06/05/2019 20:07

Knowing (and believing) that God is our refuge--our hiding place, safe place--is important. But equally as important is knowing what that safe place empowers us to do. We hide behind love. Yes. But that means love goes before us. We aren't cowering. We aren't isolating ourselves. This isn't hide...

Refuge part 4

06/04/2019 19:43

I want to take a little bit of a different point of view tonight. Instead of talking about hiding behind love--which I still think is the safest place we can be--I want to take a little time to talk about HOW we hide behind love. HOW do we let love go in front of us? How do we stay in our refuge,...

Refuge part 3

06/03/2019 19:38

There are so many good verses in the Bible about hiding. About God hiding us. Protecting us. Keeping us safe. Here's the one I chose for tonight: "Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings" (Psalm 17:8). And I chose this one because it links up with Luke 13:34, "O...

Refuge part 2

06/02/2019 19:40

Our life is hid with God in Christ. That is our hiding place. HE is our hiding place. Look at Psalm 32:7, "Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah." So let's track this. God is our hiding place. LOVE is our hiding...

Refuge part 1

06/01/2019 20:08

This Rant series kind of picks up a little bit where the previous one left off. Talking about our life being hid in God with Christ. Deuteronomy chapter 35 speaks at length about cities of refuge. Places where a person could go to be safe after comitting a crime. Because our tendency, when we mess...

You're Dead part 5

05/31/2019 19:14

We are dead... BUT... our life is hid in God with Christ. So while we are dead to everything that came before (the cross, or our knowledge and acceptance of the finished work of the cross) we can live. But the key is finding what has been hidden. Look at Proverbs 25:2, "It is the glory of God to...

You're Dead part 4

05/30/2019 19:50

If you're dead, you don't have to keep dragging around the corpse. You can let it all go. You can be free. You can move out of death and into life. And I know I quote these two verses a lot, but I'm going to do it again. Because one of the things my dad taught me is that repetition is a powerful...

You're Dead part 3

05/29/2019 19:45

You are dead, and your life is hid with God in Christ. New Life. A life of love. Being loved and loving with that same love. Receiving it and releasing it. That's a big thrust of my ministry; trying to help us understand the Divine Order of things. But tonight I want to focus on Revelation 2:11,...

You're Dead part 2

05/28/2019 19:42

A dead man can't be punished for a crime. Once you die... that's it. Game over. Nothing that had a hold on you can continue to have a hold on you. You're free. And, as we saw in our key verse for this Rant series (Colossians 3:3), "For ye are dead, and you life is hid which Christ in God." You're...

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