Galatians

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Preaching begins!

preaching shadowLinda and I met in the neighborhood of October 1975 and married in May 1979. During that time I attended college in Jacksonville, Texas – 80 miles away.
I would come home every weekend to see her and attend my home church.
Many things happened between those years. Continue reading →

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Good Fruit – Bad Fruit

good bad fruit copyTricky, tricky, tricky!
It got me to thinking and I realized something about deception.
I was looking at a website the other day and began reading through their material; very well done – very convincing. Continue reading →

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Good as Gold

tinytimIn the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, there is a point in which Mrs. Cratchit asks Bob how Tiny Tim behaved in church.
“As good as gold,” said Bob, “and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.” Continue reading →

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The real Christmas story!

whole nativityWhat is traditionally included in the Christmas story?
There’s the trip to Bethlehem, the “No Vacancy” sign at the inn, manger, shepherds and angels, a star, and wisemen.
If you see a Nativity set up that is what you will see. Continue reading →

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Fasting explained (part 2)

Isa 58:6
“No, this is the kind of fasting I want:

  1. Free those who are wrongly imprisoned;
  2. Lighten the burden of those who work for you.
  3. Let the oppressed go free
  4. Remove the chains that bind people.
  5. Share your food with the hungry
  6. Give shelter to the homeless.
  7. Give clothes to those who need them
  8. Do not hide from relatives who need your help. Continue reading →
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Abba Father

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” Rom 8:14-15
I have been doing some study on the word Abba, since watching a movie called Father of Lights. Continue reading →

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A boundary around your mind and spirit

A boundary has two purposes; keep something out and to keep something in.
You need to have boundaries in your life starting with your mind and spirit to keep some things out. Continue reading →

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Faith and Killing

Here is something to think about.
It has been a problem since early in creation – killing!
What James Holmes is alleged to have done in Aurora, Colorado is nothing new; 12 dead with 58 wounded.
It is sad, it is wrong, but it is not new.
In a nation, such as ours, the problem is rampant and the cure is suppressed. Continue reading →

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Replacing!

As you may know, Linda and I are geocachers.
We use a gps device to locate different size containers hidden by other geocachers. This is not just a passing fad; there are 1,812,257 active geocaches and over 5 million geocachers worldwide. Continue reading →

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Real Milk or Canned Milk?

I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. Continue reading →