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Teaching others to love the bible is a good thing. Teaching people to worship corporately is a good thing. Teaching people the spiritual disciplines is a good thing. But unless you’re first embodying and teaching them the Love of God, you’re simply enslaving them. Read more
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4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: “He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”? 6 But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “GOD IS OPPOSED… Read more
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At least a third of the people who read the following statement will find it offensive. They’ll turn red and fume and not come back to this sight. Another third will at first be agitated, eventually agree, and find the freedom and grace from it. The last third will say an “amen” and keep on… Read more
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I can smell a salesman from a mile away. They smell funny. They twists conversations to benefit them and their product. Here in the south in the “city of churches” (although I have dubbed it more appropriately the “city of pastors”) men are constantly trying to sell their church to you. In stead of keeping… Read more
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My life is but a weaving Between the Lord and me, I may not choose the colors, He knows what they should be; For He can view the pattern Upon the upper side While I can see it only On this, the under side. Read more
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It happens everyday. People perceive what it takes to be successful IN the Christian Religion and work non-stop to achieve it. They slave over books and act rightly among people of influence to get to a place of importance and influence. All the while the lowly and gentle Jesus cries out to you to just… Read more
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I’ve been reflecting lately on the effects of our past and how they make there way into our present. Yes, as believers there is redemption and restoration, but as I’ve made my way into “church life”, that has it’s own sub-culture, I’ve realized that I’ve been un truthful to the fiber of who I am.… Read more
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IN the world I was SELF-centered, IN religion I became SELF-righteous. IN Christ I died and He now lives. Don’t be deceived by doctrines of SELF-work. God is the only one who can change you; Our only job is to let Him. To surrender SELF. Galatians 2:21 If righteousness were through the law, then Christ died… Read more
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Doctrines rescue us from relationship with God. But since doctrines are a part of our religion we write doctrines about relationship. Before you know it we find ourselves so very bound up we can’t see which way is up , and which way is out. Scary. Read more
Ancient Paths in a Modern World
"Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls."
Ancient Paths in a Modern World 