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I Desire Mercy Not Sacrifice
Experiencing the mercy of God in our lives
Ready & Faithful
Looking to Jesus for help now and hope in the future
Why Suffering?
Help your church understand God's plan in pain
This statement is many times use as a stand alone statement without regards to the actual meaning. When the context has to be considered and an understanding of who God is and his teachings are most important. A famous Bible scholar John Gill puts it this way: For whatever is asked in faith, ...read more
Scripture: Matthew 21:22
Tags: Faith, Prayer
Denomination: Independent/Bible
FREEDOM The divine "scheme of things," as Christianity understands it, is at once extremely elastic and extremely rigid. It is elastic, in that it includes a large measure of liberty for the creature; it is rigid in that it includes the proviso that, however created beings choose to ...read more
Scripture: Romans 5:12-19
Tags: Freedom, Liberty, Rigid, Elastic
A young teenage boy and girl were setting in a swing on her parents front porch way up in the mountains of North Carolina. They spent a lot of time there away from everyone just them. They would talk about all kinds of things. Things about when they had grown up. What would they do: go to college ...read more
Scripture: 1 John 4:9-10
Tags: Love For God, Love Like God
The thunder roared like a waking dragon. As the water churned and the ship rocked wildly like a kite on a string. I watched helplessly as the splinter sized crack in the mast grew until I was sure it would snap. The crew on deck wallowed and struggled to move in the thigh deep water to try and keep ...read more
Scripture: Mark 4:35-41
Tags: Trust, Storms
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where ...read more
Scripture: John 14:27, 1 Peter 5:8, Ephesians 6:10-20
Tags: Love, Calm, Endurance Of Being Ignored
Mother Teresa – So many leaders have the idea that to lead greatly you have to focus on everyone. Mother Teresa took a different approach. She saw the poor. The hurt. The dying. And she knew something had to be done. When you know that there’s that many hurting people out there, you might think ...read more
Scripture: Judges 4:1-9
Tags: When God Speaks, Get Up And Do It
During the gold rush, a man from Ohio traveled to California. It had taken him months to get there. He had to get a claim and register it and buy tools before he could start mining. The Ohioan had been mining for months. Finally after all the hard work and finding nothing quit his claim. He was ...read more
Scripture: Mark 1:1-8
Tags: Don't Give Up, Success Isn't Far Away
Speaking of Jesus the Christ: "What is uncertain is not the “coming” of Christ but our own reception of him, our own response to him, our own readiness and ...read more
Scripture: Isaiah 64:1-9, Luke 2:8, Luke 2:14
Tags: Coming Of Christ, Go Forth Meeting Christ
It was a cold and silent night. The weather was freezing cold. A group of monkeys were on a tree. They were clinging to its branches. One of the monkeys said, “I wish we could find some fire. It will help us to keep warm.” Suddenly they noticed a flock of fireflies. One of the young monkeys ...read more
Scripture: Ephesians 5:15-20, Ephesians 5:15-20
Tags: Fools, Correcting A Fool
As a group of frogs was traveling through the woods, two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs crowded around the pit and saw how deep it was, they told the two frogs that there was no hope left for them. However, the two frogs decided to ignore what the others were saying and they ...read more
Scripture: Ephesians 6:10-20
Tags: Faith, Believe In Yourself
There are 12 or 13 diseases that Doctors know nothing about or very little. They are Mystery's. One such mystery disease is “the sleeping sickness”. From 1917 to 1928, half a million people were afflicted with a ghastly condition that could be part of the plot-line of a horror film. The ...read more
Scripture: Ephesians 1:3-14
Tags: Mysteries, Mystery Of God Can Be Found
How is it that the sunlight gives us such joy? Why does this radiance when it falls on the earth fill us with the joy of living? The whole sky is blue, the fields are green, the houses all white, and our enchanted eyes drink in those bright colors which bring delight to our souls. And then there ...read more
Scripture: James 1:17-27
Tags: Feeling God's Present, Not Feeling God's Presents
Here is part of a story by Gabrielle Moss? I've been known to waste massive amounts of time using mirrors to do respectable, adult things, like trying to straighten my bangs. Surely you've had the pleasure of breaking a mirror and having some helpful person inform you that you have now ...read more
Tags: Examination Of Self, Seeing The Real Person
I saw a painting that caught me off guard. It was a normal painting of snow covered mountains in the background. A beautiful pond where you could see the clouds in the very calm pond. But there was a herd of sheep there. The details just pulled me into the painting. I just stared at the sheep. But ...read more
Scripture: Psalm 1:1-6
Tags: Be Aware Of The Wolf, Wolf In Sheep Clothing
Where I was Pastoring at the time I got 5th Sunday off. I had a favorite fishing hole. The water wasn’t very deep so I could wade in the water. That was fun for me. It had big trees that hung over the water and the sun would shine through them and made it look beautiful. It was great, this river ...read more
Tags: Life Is Rough, God Teaches To Smooth Us
Life is an Echo. What you send out, comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in ...read more
Scripture: Esther 7:1-10
Tags: What We Send Out Comes Back, It May Be In Us Too
Tags: Becoming Finished, Facing Storms
You will only ever be as great as the people you surround yourself with; so be brave enough to let go of those who ...read more
Tags: Be With Godly People, People Cause Problems
Dietrich Bonhoeffer died in a German concentration camp right before it was liberated. This is what he wrote: In me there is darkness, but with you there is light; I am lonely, but you do not leave me; I am feeble in heart, but with you there is help; I am restless, but with You there is peace. ...read more
Scripture: Job 2:1-10
Tags: Hope, Despair, Despair Can Have Help
I've been thinking about holy moments, how Christ has surprised me by his presence. One of those moments came when I visited and had Communion with a member who was dying of cancer. Near the end of the visit I asked her how I could pray or for what she would like me to pray for. She expressed ...read more
Scripture: Luke 24:13-35
Tags: Power In Holy Communion, Power In Prayer
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