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Meeting part 1

02/16/2019 19:15

I think something that is overlooked oftentimes is empathy. Putting yourself in someone else's shoes. Seeing things from their point of view. And this is important because we have to meet people where they're at. We can't expect people to know what we know, or understand what we understand. Because...

Consequences part 5

02/15/2019 18:52

I want to (hopefully) end on kind of high note. Consequences are not only negative. They are natural. What you get out of it is what you put into it. Look at Hosea 10:12, "Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come...

Consequences part 4

02/14/2019 20:17

I want to talk about the wind today. And I'm going to get into something really cool (I think) with it, but first I want to just say, "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind..." (Hosea 8:7). I've been talking about how every action has a equal reaction. Or consequence. Some...

Consequences part 3

02/13/2019 20:15

I know I'm taking this verse slightly out of context, because I'm not talking about communion tonight, but the phrasing is so good I want to use it to illustrate the point I'm trying to make in this Rant series. 1 Corinthians 11:29, "If you give no thought (or worse, don't care) about the broken...

Consequences part 2

02/12/2019 20:06

I've said for a long, long time that I believe God is too much of a gentleman to force His will on us. And, I mean, on the cross God did what He was going to do. He drew us all into Himself and planted Himself into all of us. We had no say in that matter. The second death--the death OF death on the...

Consequences part 1

02/11/2019 20:05

Here's a simple fact of life: Actions have consequences. But that doesn't necessarily mean something bad or negative. According to dictionary.com "Consequence" is "the effect, result, or outcome of something occuring earlier." Natural consequence. Natural reaction. It has nothing--necessarily--with...

Fresh Start part 5

02/10/2019 19:44

I hope I'm doing an ok job of trying to explain the difference between "life" as we know it... and the abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of love that IS the life of God. One is us trying to do the best we can with what we have... even though we don't think we have anything. The...

Fresh Start part 4

02/09/2019 19:29

I've had a fresh start or two in my life. Probably because I'm not afraid to try things. I've got a lot of milage on my tires, if I can say it that way. I've been around. Done some stuff. And when you try things... sometimes they work out and sometimes they don't. But either way you live and learn....

Fresh Start part 3

02/08/2019 19:54

When you leave the old behind you can experience the new. Look at Romans 6:4, "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." And there's a lot here, but it starts...

Fresh Start part 2

02/07/2019 20:02

Let me drop a little bit of Scripture and then build on it. 1 Corinthians 13:4-5 in the Message Bible, "Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn't want what it doesn't have. Love doesn't strut, Doesn't have a swelled head, Doesn't force itself on others, Isn't...

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