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Loss   Search me God; and know my heart, test me and know my anxious thoughts.  See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139: 23-24 We are far more educated in what we need to be thinking and doing than…

The Recipe   “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me.  Yet not as I will, but as you will.” (Matthew 26:39) Jesus let His Father decide what the dream for His life on earth would be.   The minute I start letting feelings, culture, or…

Prayer   I urge you, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercessions and thanksgiving be made known to God. I Timothy 1:1-5 Prayer is one of the most difficult disciplines to develop as God’s man. Satan pulls out all the stops, engineers interruptions, rationalizations, and other diversions — anything to…

He Loved the Ragmuffins Lepers, prostitutes, Samaritans, tax collectors, gluttons, children, women, the diseased, crippled, mentally unstable, and all garden-variety sinners were at home with Jesus because of the Spirit of the Lord that was upon Him.  In fact, the knock on Jesus was that His standards were very low…

Prime Cut Christianity “Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me.  He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.” John 14:21 It doesn’t matter if you’re a pastor of a thirty-thousand-member…

The Goal Do not conform any longer to the patterns of this world. Romans 12:2 All vanity is empty, useless, and hollow.  In other words, the ineffectual life is the one investing in the layover versus the final destination.  Wisdom and value for Jesus was looking ahead “to where eternal…

Blood Oh! Precious is the flow that makes me white as snow; No other fount I know, nothing but the blood of Jesus — Hymn Blood is life.  In other words, blood is fundamental to existence; it is what procures and sustains life. It contains the whole story of creation,…

Showing up And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever — John 14:16 Jesus used the word Helper four times in one discussion with His disciples to describe the nature and work of the Holy Spirit (John…

Chain Reactions One man’s obedience brings life to many.  We simply do not know how far-reaching one act of obedience to God will be and what consequences our choices will have for others.  This reason alone would be enough to seek God’s will in all matters.  When the moment of…

Attacking Hope The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. John 10:10 God’s dream for our lives is Christlikeness.  Christlikeness involves hard choices in the direction of our hopes of our eternal home: always…