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Listen New ears You have dug for me… Psalm 40:6 One of my many overused phrases is that ‘you have two ears and one mouth, so you should listen twice as much as you talk.’ Because most people don’t. Why is it so hard to listen? We even set this trait apart in...
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Where Everybody Knows Your Name Back in the eighties I met with a group of people on Thursday nights. We were all just regular, ordinary, dysfunctional people, without excuse or pretense. They were my ‘small group’ and I’m sure they wouldn’t mind if I mention some...
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For One Broken Man It’s easy to underestimate the shear numbers of people that came to Jesus early in His ministry. Word got out about healing and casting out demons and people came from everywhere. In Mark 3 it gives us an idea about what Jesus and His small group of...
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Sing Jesus Over Them “…and you shall call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins.” Matthew 12:1 Say His name a few times, “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.” Oh, how we love His name. The old song says it is “the sweetest name I know.” With our three...
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The Simplicity of Christ But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 2 Corinthians 11:3 Human beings have a way of complicating the obvious. Take, for...
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Feeling God’s Pleasure You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore Psalm 16:11 Remember Chariots of Fire? the Oscar winning movie about two men who ran in the 1924 Olympics. One of the...
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Deep Peace of Christ to You Our world is anxious, fearful and full of doubt. Congratulations to contemporary media, which has succeeded in distorting their industry from providing information to promoting innuendo, from imparting fact to imposing fear. Media has...
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More Precious Than Rubies Who can find a virtuous and capable wife? She is more precious than rubies. Proverbs 31:10 NLT It seems as if the loudest voices in our culture would have us believe that traditional marriage is a thing of the past. Just one more dead...
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Miracle of Life Jesus' life on earth began as a single cell. Just one. A 'zygote' just like every other person. 46 chromosomes strong, the full personhood of Jesus Christ, Son of God and Son of Man, biologically unique and completely individual. From...
