Discipleship

Divided We Stand? One Heart – Part 1

There’s so much disunity right now that it’s alarming! But if you examine the science of unity, you see that all of human kind share a genome that is 99.5 percent identical.

Survival

As we continued our “At the Movies” series this weekend, we examined the movie Lion. This movie is based on the true story of Saroo Brierley, a young boy born in an impoverished village in India. Saroo was tragically displaced from his family as a young boy while working with his brother. After surviving alone […]

Jesus or Jesus junk? (3)

If you are just catching up on this, see part 1 and part 2 My previous examples were from the Old Testament. What about the New? As you probably imagined, there are many. I’ll pick one for today and one for the next post. The first is found in Acts 8:9-24 “9Now for some time […]

Jesus or Jesus junk? (2)

If you missed part one of this, go here. The second biblical example of this phenomenon actually happened many, many times. I will just pick one at random for us to take a look at. I’m talking about the ‘high places‘ of false worship that became an ongoing struggle for God’s chosen people throughout the entire Old Testament. […]

Jesus or Jesus junk? (1)

On the one hand, there has never been a day like today for getting out the good news of the gospel message. On the other hand, there has never been a day like today when fewer people are interested in the real Gospel message. Once again, it’s 4:30 am and the Holy Spirit won’t let […]

A Matter of the Heart (3)

This is a marathon series, not a sprint. For parts 1 and 2 click the following links (Part 1 | Part 2) And now, the most common reason people raise the topic of being “under grace and not law…” To get out of tithing. Friends, I promise you there are a gazillion great reasons for living under […]

A Matter of the Heart (2)

Just joining this discussion? Then click here to catch up. With me now? Good. Then you know that we left off yesterday’s discussion with the cryptic statement about the law that Jesus made in Matthew 5:17-18 when He said, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have […]

A Matter of the Heart (1)

Years ago when reading the Old Testament I would get a little discouraged with all the law requirements—how in the world could people remember all that stuff let alone obey it?! Some of you are thinking, “Are you serious, Pastor Rob? Who can’t remember 10 simple commandments?” Firstly, there weren’t just ’10 simple commandments’ there […]

Pet Sins and High Places

Ever feel like you’re firing on all cylinders for God, your prayer life is good, you’re learning a lot and growing so much from your time spent in God’s Word? Yet something’s just not working .. It should be, you reason. But you never quite experience the blessing of God that others do. […]

Monday Evening Mind Dump

Yesterday was Part 2 of our, “I Love My Church!” series, and we talked about my favorite thing about church, period—the presence of God. We should not simply take it for granted that because we go to a church that claims to be “Biblical” and “Evangelical” that the Holy Spirit is there. Sometimes churches ‘program’ […]

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