Emotions under command

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s93pp-10be90e The power God gives us to take captive our thoughts is the same power we have over the feelings we store in our hearts.  Particularly in this world where people are emotionally charged about one cause or another, and so easily offended by God’s truth, it is important for us to make sure that…

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S109P4 – Voices of the martyrs: Paul

Rom. 12:1-2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.  And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and…

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S109P3 – Voices of the martyrs: Zechariah

Zec. 1:1-4 In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, “The Lord has been very angry with your fathers.  Therefore, say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Return to Me,” says the…

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S109P2 – Voices of the martyrs: Stephen

Acts 7:57-60 Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord; and they cast him out of the city and stoned him.  And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.  And they stoned Stephen as he was calling…

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S109P1 – Voices of the martyrs: John the Baptist

Matt. 3:7-10 But when [John] saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “Brood of vipers!  Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?  Therefore, bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not think to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’  For I…

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S108P8 – Creation story: woman from man

Gen. 2:21-23 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.…

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S108P7 – Creation story: first breath

Gen. 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. Dr. Frankenstein was almost there, but he was missing that last step.  He had harvested the different body parts and organs needed to create his monster. …

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S108P6 – Creation story: mankind and every creature

Gen. 1:29-31 And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that…

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In for a pound

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-v9zgv-10b5d0d Are you all-in?  Are you maybe in for a little here and a little there, but not fully committed anywhere?  Are you straddling the border and thinking that life simply must be that way in this imperfect world?  Let us consider once more what it means to be all-in with the Lord and what…

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