Have you ever approached God and said, “God I offer you all I have?” I have done this and still do. However, it is one thing to offer God your heart, gifts, talents, and abilities for serving His purpose. It is altogether another act to attempt to try to help Him save you. You can [...]
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“Grace killers cannot be mildly ignored or kindly tolerated. You can no more allow legalism to continue than you could permit a rattlesnake to slip into your house and hide. Before long, somebody is going to get hurt.” Chuck Swindoll My childhood pastor, Eddie Brand sent this quote to me via Facebook. I am so glad [...]
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Are you like me and often find it hard to trust, love, or give a crap? Yeah, I know how that feels. I mean, how many times can someone rip in half the trust that you had given? How many times can your heart be shaken, torn, or messed with before you throw up your [...]
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A few weeks ago, I had to privilege of teaching a message to our Dickson Campus at Cross Point. I wanted to share three quick points with you that I shared with our church. I am confident that if you as a believer in Christ will apply these three thoughts, you will begin to experience an inner [...]
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“I Don’t Know Much, But I Know I Love You, And That May Be All There Is To Know…” Aaron Neville & Linda Rondstadt sang the lyrics to this song in 1989. This is true when comes to my love relationship with God. I’m even tempted to call it a love/hate relationship. Why? At times, [...]
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In the Old Testament, God plainly gave the 10 Commandments. For humans, that was not clear enough, so through time they added 603 more to clarify what God meant. This brings us to a grand total of 613 laws by which to live. As we now know, they couldn’t live under the law of God [...]
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This is pt. 1 of the blog series: Are You________? Yeah, me too. 1 John 1:8 New International Version (NIV) If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. Yesterday I posted this on Facebook & Twitter: “Committing sin or living as hypocrites isn’t the churches biggest problem. No, it’s [...]
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When I was a teenager, one of the big conversations that would pop up concerning the mind would go something like this – “Do you think the devil can make you think bad thoughts? Do you think he can plant things in your mind? Can he control your thoughts?” Of course, as young minds often [...]
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