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Hidden part 2

12/09/2018 19:53

I mentioned yesterday that our love is sometimes hidden underneath all of the stuff that the world--and we ourselves, if we're being honest about it--pile up on top. But look at Proverbs 25:2, "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter." So let's...

Hidden part 1

12/08/2018 20:41

This might take a little getting into. But that's why I spend a few days on a single subject. So let's start with one of my favorite verses (and yes, I know they're all my favorites), 1 Peter 3:4, "But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a...

Self part 5

12/07/2018 17:45

To end this Rant series I want to go back to where I started it. Jesus saying, "I can do nothing of my own self." To me that's so powerful. Because even Jesus Himself, God in the flesh, didn't try to do anything on His own. Let me say it another way, "Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily,...

Self part 4

12/06/2018 20:00

Thinking about self is really thinking about Jesus. Because He is our true self. And thinking about Jesus is thinking about love. Jesus is God in the flesh. Love in a body. God in OUR flesh. Love in OUR body. So let's change "self-centered" to "Christ-centered." Which, of course, means people...

Self part 3

12/05/2018 19:57

Selfless vs selfish. The difference between the New Man and the old man. The difference, really, between life and death. Because to live is to love and to love is to live. And love is giving. Giving everything you are and everything you have. Laying your life down for your friends. And destroying...

Self part 2

12/04/2018 18:04

To understand that our "self" is really Jesus... He is our true self, the inner man, the hidden man of the heart... is what allows us to shift from being selfish to being selfless. As we saw yesterday, even Jesus Himself said, "I can of my own self do nothing." He was totally and completely...

Self part 1

12/03/2018 20:12

I think--I hope--in that last Rant series about being strong we saw that our strength comes from grace. From love. From each other. From God. But in case y'all didn't pick up what I was laying down, and because my pastor taught me to preach it until my heart is empty on it, I'm going to follow that...

Strong part 5

12/02/2018 19:48

I really like the verse in Ecclesiastes that I quoted early in this Rant series. So I'm going to quote it again to close this bad boy down. Ecclesiastes 4:12, "And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken." Kind of another way of saying, "And...

Strong part 4

12/01/2018 18:35

Its easy to be strong when there's no adversity. But you've probably heard that old saying, "Christians are like teabags, you never know what they're made of until you put them in hot water." That's when what's inside really comes out. That's when you have to put your money where your mouth is....

Strong part 3

11/30/2018 18:15

Love is all-powerful, right? Which doesn't mean MOST powerful. It means ALL of the power. So, by that Logan logic, there's nothing stronger than love. Right? And love doesn't demand its (HIS) own way. So being strong doesn't mean getting what you want all the time. Its not "right because of might."...

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