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Lifebuilders – James 2 Mar 13, 2022 Click for: Audio of James 2 Slideshow (before class): Main Lesson Presentation Deck Videos and other Resources ● https://bit.ly/pardes2 – John Delhousaye’s PARDES work on the book of Hebrews Kenyan Traditional Dance Video 🙂 – Utange…
Speaking The Truth in Love May 3, 2018 When we are speaking the truth in love, we are not putting someone down nicely—we are elevating someone brilliantly. We are saying to people, “You don’t need to be doing that because this is who you…
Capacity for Messy Compassion Apr 26, 2018 It is compassion that removes the heavy bar, opens the door to freedom, makes the narrow heart as wide as the world. Compassion takes away from the heart the inert weight, the paralyzing heaviness; it gives…
Walk Tall, Shine for Him, and Look to Him for HIS approval. Apr 24, 2018 Obey God and Leave All the Consequences to Him. ~ Charles Stanley Moses said to the LORD, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people,’ but You have not let me know whom You will…
Heaviness Before Lightness Feb 19, 2018 Depend upon it, if you are bent on prayer, the devil will not leave you alone. He will molest you, tantalize you, block you, and will surely find some hindrances, big or little or both. And…
The Only Power to Change: Goodness And Kindness Aug 13, 2017 Like faith and hope, trust cannot be self-generated. I cannot simply will myself to trust. What outrageous irony: the one thing that I am responsible for throughout my life I cannot generate. The one thing I…
Friendship: I Am The Richest Man Alive Aug 6, 2017 Friendship is a spiritual thing. It is independent of matter or space or time. That which I love in my friend is not that which I see. What influences me in my friend is not his…
The Enormity of Providence Feb 23, 2017 God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them. ~ John Piper He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by…
What? Like You Are Gonna Lose? Jan 4, 2017 Sing aloud, children! sing to the glorious King of Redemption, who sits on the throne, for the seraphim high veil their faces, and cry, and the angels are praising the Son. With His raiment blood-dyed, and…
Forever Beyond the Great Sadness Sep 9, 2016 Bittersweet is a word not understood by most. Only them who have heard the enormous roar of His quiet Peace above the storm through which they have passed, know this word’s true sense.~ Makala Barnabas Doulos…
Goodness Always Grows Jul 31, 2016 Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows. ~John Milton (1608-1674) Goodness Always Grows… The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall…
Loved from Forever Jul 31, 2016 God is love and God is sovereign. His love disposes him to desire our everlasting welfare, and his sovereignty enables him to secure it. ~ A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) This fool of a writer thought he…
Forever in His Thoughts: Eternal Planning for You Apr 26, 2016 The Bible is a universe of revelation facts which have no meaning for us until we are born from above; when we are born again we see in it what we never saw before. We are…
The Gospel: So Much Bigger Than We Can Comprehend Jan 24, 2016 The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with but one purpose in mind: to make brand-new creation. Not to make people with…
Hemmed in By G_d’s Goodness Mar 22, 2015 When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty…
Resting into Victory Jan 3, 2015 There are three kinds of faith in Christ: 1. Struggling faith, like a man in deep water desperately swimming. 2. Clinging faith, like a man hanging to the side of a boat. 3. Resting faith, like…
Right Action from A Heart of Great Love Oct 27, 2014 The norm or measure by which any thought or action is to be judged a success or failure, right or wrong, is love.~Joseph Fletcher“None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for…
Glorious Oversight Oct 2, 2014 Choose to love—rather than hateChoose to smile—rather than frownChoose to build—rather than destroyChoose to persevere—rather than quitChoose to praise—rather than gossipChoose to heal—rather than woundChoose to give—rather than graspChoose to act—rather than delayChoose to forgive—rather than…
The Year of His Favor Jan 3, 2014 Our great High Priest is in glory, exalted above all created angels. But he is the same Jesus we knew in the days of his flesh. He is the same Jesus in heaven as he was…