Tag: story

• Change Your Story to God’s Love

  17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.–Ephesians…

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  February 2, 2023

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• John’s Depression

  2Now when John heard in prison about the deeds of the Christ, he sent word by his disciples3and said to him, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?” 4And Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John what you hear and see: 5the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are…

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  January 11, 2023

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• The Christmas Story (with light commentary)

  1In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3And all went to be registered, each to his own town.  Luke obviously did his homework. The Christmas story actually happened and was linked to actual history. The names would…

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  December 25, 2022

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• A Quarantine Memory

  20Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good, and blessed is he who trusts in the LORD.–Proverbs 16 I recall during the quarantine of 2021 being a substitute ‘teacher’. I oversee support groups at my church and during that season, we ran them on zoom. I recall that our DivorceCare men’s leader had a…

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  December 16, 2022

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• More Than a Good Person

   8Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the…

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  October 4, 2022

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• Address the Thoughts

  5The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.–Proverbs 12 One of the running subplots of the book of Proverb is who you identify with. You are either acting like the wise person or the fool. You are either listening to Lady Wisdom or Madam Folly. Here, you are either…

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  August 12, 2022

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