From the Blog
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Growing Up Together
Would you say you are living a fulfilled life? What does that even look like? Is maturity just growing old? Or is there a target to our growing up? What is the aim of your life? If you spent the rest of your life doing what you are doing on a weekly basis, will you…
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Doing Life Together
From the very beginning God saw our need for relationship. First the vertical relationship with Him and then the horizontal relationship with one another. We not only do life better together, we are simply built for it. The last year and a half has exposed this reality as well as any other season in recent…
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To Faithfully Respond to Jesus
Will you faithfully respond to the priestly sacrifice of Jesus? And church let me ask you, would you say you’ve had a faithful response to the knowledge and belief that Jesus is the sacrifice for all sins and that he is now your great priest in heaven? Do you know what it means to faithfully…
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A Revealing Light
In the second chapter of Luke’s gospel, he described the prophecy of Simeon that Jesus was the revealing light exposing the hearts of all mankind. We can believe that Jesus is the light which reveals all hearts. His truth divides the hearts of mankind.
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Yes I Will
Making fun of 2020 has been just about the only way to survive this for many of us. It has felt like we are playing a weird game of apocalypse bingo. There has been so much to complain about, worry about, be angry about, and this is just on a national level. Some of our…
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A Letter Against Tolerance
Is tolerance automatically a bad thing? Should we tolerate some things and stand firm on others? How do we come to a biblical understanding of tolerance? In his letter to the church in Thyatira, Jesus commanded them to hold fast to His truth in the face of excessive tolerance. We can hold fast to God’s…
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A Letter on First Love
Jesus wrote a letter to His churches. The first letter went to the church of Ephesus. It was a love letter. He wanted to know why they no longer loved Him as they did at first. Isn’t that amazing? That the Lord Jesus would care whether we love Him or not? Don’t we all need…
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This Is Your Legacy
When we pray, “God, this is Your legacy” we are recognizing that we are in fact His legacy. As believers we are the present day legacy of the Gospel. Generations of believers are responsible for your sitting here listening to God’s Word today. We are God’s legacy and His faithful family passing this on to…
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The Parable of the Lost Son
Fables teach us work hard, to work for what we want, and that our hard work will be rewarded. Or they teach us to keep working until the end, or not to lie. Parables, though, are stories Jesus told to help us understand what the kingdom of Heaven is about. In the Parable of the…
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The Relentless Yes
What if we’ve taken the step to put our yes on the table but then life got difficult and we took it back off? What if we had our yes on the table and were waiting on God to move but He never did, so we took our yes back off? What if our yes…