From the Blog
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Confessing Our Guilt
We want to please God, but still have sin areas that cause us to feel guilty and defeated or past sin areas that we still feel guilty about. This robs us of living the blessed life, the happy life. What is guilt? It’s that feeling of shame and regret we feel over a sinful attitude…
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Releasing Our Grief
For many of us, we don’t know how to grieve. We don’t know how to mourn. So, we just bottle it up. We deny it. Or we try to medicate it with booze, or pills, or overeating, or over-working, or materialism or… But the pain remains. Unresolved grief can cause us to give up on…
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Admitting Our Brokenness
We all have problems. We have hurts, habits, and hangups that we can’t overcome. It’s like something inside of us is broken and it leaves us powerless to change. We’re held captive and can’t get free! How are you doing at overcoming these hurts, habits, and hangups? For most of us, no matter how hard…
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Releasing Your Children to the Lord
Have you noticed that every child is unique? No two are the same. And as they grow, they change. So the parenting style that seemed effective when they were small, doesn’t work when they’re older. These differences need different parenting styles. Godly parents recognize their call to be leaders who make disciples. If we want…
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Raising Up Children in the Lord
What is your parenting approach? Where did you learn how to be a mom or dad? Was it from your parents? From friends or a book? Or are you just winging it? The apostle Paul told the Ephesians how to raise up their children according to God’s plan. As Christians, we can follow God’s Word…
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Receiving Children as a Gift from God
In Psalm 127, Solomon wrote about the necessity of recognizing the Lord as the One builds families and watches over them. As a result, he wrote that children are to be received as a gift from the Lord.
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Doing Discipleship Together
Many Christians don’t know how to be a disciple and they certainly don’t know how to make one! Many have the wrong impression that discipleship is for super Christians only, as if there were such a thing. But discipleship should be a condition of being a Christian. The fact that the Church has neglected this,…
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Making Disciples Together
Jesus has given us a Great Commission to be and make disciples together! Yet, we often neglect this command. You can decide to be a disciple of Jesus and to obey His command to come together and make disciples. In the gospel of Matthew, the resurrected Jesus commanded his followers to go and make disciples…
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Growing Up Together
Do you feel like you are stuck in your own personal growth? Stuck in a dead end job, battling the same arguments with your spouse for the last decade with no sign of progress? When is the last time you read something new, learned something, developed a skill, or more importantly heard from God? There…
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Man-Made Morality
Unlike the earlier chapters, these final five chapters are so spiritually dark, and Israel has drifted so far from God, that these chapters are almost never preached. Indeed, these final chapters are so disturbing that you may be tempted to cover your ears and look away. Unlike the earlier chapters, in these final chapters, there…