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Your marriage should not be based on the simple pleasurable act of sexual intercourse. Honestly, God would never make marriage so shallow. The example of marriage is taken from the image of God, the image that all of us were created in. This image is of a trinity, a three in one, a closeness in not […]
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I have had people ask me, “How do I talk to a homosexual?” When I was first asked that question I looked at the person really strangely because I really didn’t understand the question. That question is disrespectful in the sense that you are bunching a whole entire group of people together as if they […]
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I just had to get this off my chest. Yes he did it, I don’t care what it looks like, what you may have heard or your opinion. The fact of the matter is he did it. You might be fooled or might not see it, but it happened. I just can’t convince you that […]
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I am convinced that many Christians fail themselves by not counting the true cost of following Jesus. We get to a comfortable place in our walk with Christ and just stop right there because we begin to realize the cost and it gets too hard to press on. It is much easier to become a […]
Read More Counting the cost part 1Often we think about tithing and offering and are told to bring our best to the Lord. Our best is often defined as 10% of our pay check and then whatever else we can offer above and beyond. We are also told to sacrifice with special love offerings to the Lord! All of these things […]
Read More Bring only your bestI am writing this to anyone who currently feels like they are abandoned by God or struggling with those feelings. Please know you will get those days. There are times when we feel alone physically and spiritually. We feel lost and afraid and abandoned. There are also times when we feel spiritually alone like God […]
Read More Feeling abandoned by God?(Message from May 24, 2010 on Pentecost. Of course the delivery was different as this was a much earlier draft.) Pentecost Sunday – What does this mean? What shall we do? Today is Pentecost Sunday, there have been 50 days since the resurrection of Christ. I want to show you a little historical perspective here […]
Read More Pentecost SundayYou can’t be an instrument of His peace to this world if you are constantly complaining about what you don’t have or what you can’t do. True instruments of His peace would be content where they are as God has placed them. Not content in the sense that you don’t look to improve or grow, […]
Read More Instruments of peace(Originally written on May 21, 2010, this was to help me process the struggles of leadership and being an example to others.) Often times I talk with pastors and lay leaders in the church and one of the biggest stress we face is our inability to allow ourselves to be human and fraile. Our leadership […]
Read More The humanity of spiritual leadersShame on us for making our pastor constantly nurse us with milk! We need to be out developing disciples not sitting in the church just waiting for our next sip of milk! God is not pleased! We have the opportunity to finally get away from the milk and get into the meat. How dare you […]
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