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Oct 2019
What are the top 10 most common words in the Bible? Take a guess! If you guessed words like the, and, to, for, at, in, and of, then you would be correct! But that’s not exactly what my question is about. So, take out all the prepositions, pronouns, and articles. Now, guess again at the top 10 most common words in the Bible. After you have guessed, check out the tabs below to see the actual answers. You can even look through the tabs to see the Top 50 most common words in......
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Sep 2019
Consider your crown. Seriously, consider you crown. that may sound strange right now. Allow me to explain. We go about our daily lives – the rituals and routines. We go through the motions. We eat, sleep, work a lot and play a little. And do it all over again the next day. It’s easy for life to become mundane. It’s easy to just let the days pass in the wind. Sometimes it’s easy to enjoy. Sometimes it’s easy to become frustrated, to let the little things get to us. More and more......
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13
May 2019
I have a big question for you this week: Who is God? If you are reading, then take some time to really think about this and write down some answers. Now, amidst all your answers, what have you neglected? It’s likely that one of your answers was Father. But did you also answer Mother? The truth is this: God is our Mother. Don’t believe me…? Well, listen to some of the places that describe God as a mother: Genesis 1:27 – The image of God described as male and female God created humanity in......
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Apr 2018
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Feb 2018
I have a somewhat unpopular and uncomfortable topic today. Are you ready for it? Okay, here it is: God can change. Folks often talk about how God can change us humans. But we don’t often talk about God as the one who changes. But it’s true. Just look to scripture for examples… Moses changes God’s mind on Mt Sinai. (see Exodus 32 – verse 14: And the Lord changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people.) Psalmist sings prayers to change God’s mind all the time (for example, Psalm......
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Feb 2018
Read with me the Story of Simon’s Mother-In-Law from Mark 1:29-31. It’s kinda sad that in over 2000 years when a couple of guys walk into someone’s home they have no clue how to fend for themselves. So they have to go to such lengths as miraculously healing the sick lady of the house to get anything done. Some of you ladies out there are thinking this woman was pretty smart. She knew as soon as those guys walked in that they couldn’t do anything for themselves….so she comes down with a......
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Dec 2017
All my life, I have wanted to belong. And I have tried all sorts of tactics to gain a sense of belonging. In preschool, according to my mother I was the boss. I marched around as though I was the admiral of a fleet of 3 and 4 year olds ready to conquer the world. I belonged because I was in charge. In elementary school, a move from Garner to Southern Pines meant I had to start over. I was court marshaled and no longer the admiral, but trying to work my......
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Jul 2017
The Abraham story is filled with new ideas about God, as we heard from Rob Bell earlier. It represents a dramatic shift within human understanding of God, with the way humans thought about God. It is a key place in the revelation of God to humanity. We always think of Jesus as the clearest and most central person in whom God is revealed. And that is so true. But even as we lift up Jesus, we must never forget how mind-blowing and thought-shattering the revelation of God was during the time......
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Jan 2017
We use a lot of words to describe God: God is… Positive images: Love, Awesome, forgiving, merciful Difficult images: wrath, vengeance… Omniscient – or all-knowing Omnipresent – always around us Transcendent – far off, outside the materials world Immanent – close by, within the material world you could add to this list… But all of these are so heady….so theoretical…Sometimes I just want to know more about God’s personality. For example, I am a talker…give me a subject that I am passionate about and I will talk all day on it. I......
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