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Fear and Faith

By on Sunday, July 31st, 2011 | No Comments

We all live with fear.  At one level, that’s a good thing.  It is great that we have a bit of fear when walking across several lanes of traffic at the height of rush hour.  Sometime, however, our fears can become irrational and unhealthy.  Like when we sit in our homes all day, afriad to even […]

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Love

By on Saturday, July 30th, 2011 | No Comments

Fred Craddock tells the story of his father, who spent years of his life hiding from the God who was seeking him out. “When the pastor used to come from my mother’s church to call on him, my father would say, ‘You don’t care about me.  I know how churches are.  You want another pledge, […]

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Recover The WOW-Factor

By on Thursday, July 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Sherry was an attractive girl – very attractive.  She dressed well, had a great smile, a warm personality, and an infectious giggle.  Her favorite word was WOW!  She could not speak three sentences without inserting that word somewhere in her conversation. I met Sherry in the AGAPE Club – the Christian club that met before […]

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PEACE

By on Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 | No Comments

For a time I worked as a Summer Youth Ministries Intern in Palatka, Florida.  The church was rather large, but Palatka was small.  It was location off Route 17 about an hour north of Deland, Florida, where I was a student at Stetson University. As I made the trek from Deland to Palatka a few […]

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Claim the Promise

By on Monday, July 25th, 2011 | No Comments

We don’t take Jesus seriously. Think about it!  When was the last time you did any of the things Jesus did?  When was the last time you did anything GREATER than Jesus?  Do you think it is sacriligous to suggest that you can do the things Jesus did – and even greater things?  If so, […]

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Cool

By on Friday, July 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

This is the closing prayer…and pretty much the jest of the sermon for this coming Sunday. Father, we are tired of struggling…tired of trying… tired of wrestling and fighting. Father, we give up, we quit, we are not going to try anymore. We are not going to work at it. We are not going to […]

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The STAIN of Sin VS The CORE of Christianity

By on Friday, July 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

Last Saturday I stained my back deck.  In the process, I also stained my sidewalk, the side of the house, and the grass in my backyard.  Oh, the trees in the backyard are all redwood, now – even though God did not bring them into the world as redwoods.  STAIN. That night on Facebook a […]

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C.S. Lewis on “hating the sin and loving the sinner!”

By on Thursday, July 21st, 2011 | No Comments

I remember Christian teachers telling me long ago that I must hate a bad man’s actions but not hate the bad man: or, as they would say, hate the sin but not the sinner. …I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the […]

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Quick Quote: Christianity is NOT a Moral Code of Conduct according to C.S. Lewis

By on Thursday, July 21st, 2011 | 1 Comment

I think all Christians would agree with me if I said that though Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk […]

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If you can’t forgive, let Papa-God do it instead

By on Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 | No Comments

Recently I found myself in the Emergency Room of a hospital here in Richmond, Virginia.  I was there to visit the family of a young child in my church who had suffered an eye injury.  Thankfully, the young fellow is fine. While sitting in the waiting room, God arranged another appointment. A young woman had […]

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