Loaves, fish, and souls

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-nfhhc-156e896 This Christian life is about surrender, which will require that we give everything to God.  This expectation of generosity and willingness to let go should not make us nervous or bring thoughts of scarcity and need.  God’s abundance is revealed when we abundantly surrender all to him.

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A calling unto death

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ut932-156370d Esther, Mordecai, and the Jews of their time certainly had their flaws.  Yet, God used them in a mighty way, and we are still talking about it today.  For them, the question was simple.  Would they be willing to face death individually and corporately in order to save their people from annihilation?  History shows…

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A sad but beautiful refinement

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wfbtw-1558430 Before the return of Christ, a great apostasy will occur.  Unpleasant but necessary, this is a stage of the Church’s purification that we cannot ignore or dispel as some future event too removed in time from us.  The warning is there for all that great deception is ahead and that all are vulnerable.

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More on the great delusion(s)

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-unpzm-154bed7 We have covered this general idea recently, but there is a specific delusion among us resulting from people’s desire to identify with anything other than God.  As the Church, I believe our job is to pray against the deception and wickedness which leads to God releasing this delusion.  He ultimately gives them what they…

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Any given Sunday

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hmmhu-1542ff7 Church unity means a lot of things.  If the Church is really united, we can walk into any number of buildings on a Sunday morning and be among God’s people worshiping him together in Spirit and in truth.  It should be like family even if we never have met them.  I pray that we…

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God’s majesty in the plain and lowly one

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-njw9d-153a4be We follow and serve a king, a prince, whose throne sits at the pinnacle of power and authority.  And yet, He lived as a man no less ordinary than you and I for very clear reasons.  Let us explore the holy need for the plainness of Christ the man.

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The eternal salvation story

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9qj7p-15333e2 On December 25, we celebrate the birth of our Savior, but this was not the beginning of his work. That birth does not mark the beginning of our salvation story. The victory already was secure before the foundations of the earth were laid. The eternal Christ has been ready and able to save since…

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Spiritual daily value

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yt8xs-15149b2 Yesterday might have been great, and tomorrow might be better, but what about today?  In the Lord’s prayer, Jesus gives us insight into the value of each day we live.  Let us recognize the value of each day while we have the opportunity to do so.

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Staying spiritually fit

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7vmmx-1514932 No matter where we have arrived spiritually, we all have so much further we can go.  There is unlimited potential for the children of God, and we need to tap into that potential.  Let us seek God to take us further and deeper, to increase our stamina and our strength, to make us fitter…

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The stale, dry times

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3yhh9-151491d In this episode, we discuss the importance of spiritual resetting when we feel we’ve hit the wall and describe ways to reset.  Be encouraged that none of our dry times lasts forever.  God always has more for us.  

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