This is a picture of one of my chickens… (former chickens God rest her little soul). I’m sorry for the graphic nature of the image but it serves to make a point. My nephew moved 8 chickens onto his new property adjacent to mine a few weeks back, and I have become a sort of Shepherd to the “flock”. Every time they see me or hear me whistle they come waddling to me as fast as they can, hoping to receive some edible token of my affection. It’s funny how animals of all sorts can work their way into your […]
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Faith is a topic which is widely misunderstood. This is largely due to it’s being treated like a religious topic or a “tool” to manipulate circumstances and ultimately God to make our own lives more satisfying.
Any Biblical idea which has been stripped of its relational context is doomed to mislead people in the end.
Faith is nothing more that relational, whole-hearted trust placed in God as a RESULT of Him taking the initiative to reveal Himself to us in any area of our live. The trust we place in Him, initiates from Him. As He reveals Who He is to us, the heart response of trusting Him to be Who He reveals Himself to be is what faith is – nothing less and nothing more.
For unto us
Podcast: Download ()Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 12/23/18 Series: Christmas Message – For unto us Click HERE for Video For Unto us… This familiar phrase actually appears in this form only in Isa. 9:6, “For unto us a child is born, unto us a child is given…”. I want to take a moment to consider, I mean really consider what is being said here. Jesus was given TO US! Think about that! Most of us are aware that Jesus was given FOR us, but to realize yet another and perhaps even deeper truth in that is speaks […]
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Emmanuel: the Light of Life
Podcast: Download (127.9MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 12/16/18 Series: Kingdom Work Message – Emmanuel: the Light of Life Click HERE for Video Before we launched into praise and worship today we read this passage in Psalms and so it does not appear on the recording but I felt led to include it here in the written account of the service. Psalm 32:1-11 HCSB, “How happy is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered! (2) How happy is the man the LORD does not charge with sin, and in whose spirit is no deceit! (3) When I kept […]
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30 Ways to Cook Quail – Numbers 11-12
Podcast: Download (210.3MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Wednesday 11/28/18 Series: Thru the Bible Message – 30 Ways to Cook Quail – Numbers 11-12 Click HERE for Video 30 Ways to Cook Quail – Numbers 11-12 Numbers 11 Because it’s been a few weeks and because of the abrupt nature of the beginning of chapter 11, I want to back up and remember where we left off. At the end of chapter 10 Moses shows a prime example of his humility by asking Hobab his brother in law – (Zipporah’s brother and Jethro [or Reuel]’s son])to go with them. Guzik says – […]
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Is Gratitude your Attitude?
Podcast: Download (109.1MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Wednesday 11/20/18 THANKSGIVING Message – Is Gratitude your Attitude Click HERE for Video Is Gratitude your Attitude? Looking at three simple examples of gratitude and what a heart filled with it looks like. Actually one is a “non-example” or an counter-example. Turn to Rom. 1:16-25 Weymouth “(16) For I am not ashamed of the Good News. It is God’s power which is at work for the salvation of everyone who believes–the Jew first, and then the Gentile. “God directs his people not simply to worship but to sing […]
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