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  • LEGALISM: My Recovery From This Addiction

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    I don’t know when it started, I just remember when God spoke directly to me and told me it was wrong. You see, I’m a recovering legalist. There was a time in my life when I used to think it was up to me to do all the right things. To have more check marks…

  • Influence Isn’t Grace

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    Grace is completely free. There’s nothing you and I can do to earn it. It’s readily available because it’s provided free of charge by an Awesome God. Influence MUST be earned. I don’t have the right to speak to certain issue in certain people’s lives. I don’t know them well enough. I haven’t earned the…

  • grace.

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    grace. According to Webster, grace means… unmerited, divine, assistance given humans for their regeneration or sanctification. grace. We can’t earn it. It’s completely unmerited. We can’t be good enough. It envolves divine intervention. We can’t get salvation on our own. It requires assistance. We can’t go get it. It’s given freely. We can’t control it.…

  • The Rocky Path

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    When I was still living at home, my parents decided to remodel their kitchen. They decided that they really liked tile floors and called the tile man. I still remember how careful the tile guy was to be sure that he was laying the tile on a smooth surface. Every few minutes, I’d see him…

  • Testify!

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    Remember when churches used to have testimony times? Times for the congregation to give testimony to what God has been doing in their lives. The truth is, God is good. He’s been good to us. There’s certainly something that we can all testify to that God’s done in our life recently. For me, He’s given…

  • Which Came First? Chicken or Egg?

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    The common question is what came first, the chicken or the egg. I lean toward the chicken since God created it, but that’s not the point of this post. The point? As Christians we have to know what comes first… Jesus or getting our actions right. A lot of Christians want the egg before they…

  • Don’t Eat From the Religion Buffet

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    Religion isn’t a smorgasbord. John 14:6 “Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’” Did you read that? No one comes to the Father (God) EXCEPT by Christ. We can’t pick and choose what faiths we want to combine. All roads do…

  • When the Waves Break

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    I read this quote a couple of days ago… “Christ’s life outwardly was one of the most troubled lives that was ever lived: tempest and tumult, tumult and tempest, the waves breaking over it all the time. But the inner life was a sea of glass. The great calm was always there.” – Henry Drummond…