Grace And Truth Came Through Jesus Christ

May 27, 2021 by
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You aren’t giving Jesus your heart. Jesus is giving you a new heart.

July 27, 2019 by

“And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to […]

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What People Think The Bible Says Versus What The Bible Actually Says

July 10, 2019 by
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Thorns

July 15, 2011 by

“Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn.” (2 Corinthians 12:7a) What’s your thorn? I never really thought about it before. I think we all have one (or two or three?). The Apostle Paul had an especially “prickly” thorn. Can […]

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Chosen (A Dream Come True)

January 14, 2011 by

I was twelve going on thirteen. It was the night of the Little League draft. And all I can remember is how bad I wanted to get on the Padres baseball team. Anything less would just not do. Anything less would be a heartbreak. But I really didn’t have much of a chance (in my […]

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God Rejoices Over Us

January 11, 2011 by

In one game in high school an all-star quarterback threw for 354 yards and four touchdowns. (Wow.) When he was able to talk to his father about it, his dad said, “And if you didn’t miss seeing that receiver wide open in the end zone you could have had a fifth touchdown.” The young man […]

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Let There Be Nothing Left – Today

November 17, 2010 by

“And [Jesus] answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.’” (Luke 10:27) I want to talk about leaving it all on the field ~ leaving it all on the field today. […]

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The Unseen Hand

November 14, 2010 by

We just don’t realize how much God protects us. (I know I don’t.) We had a drug bust take place in our neighborhood recently. I wrote about it in: “SWAT Operation (and the stupid thing I did).” From the same house (where 6 were arrested and 25 lbs. of marijuana was seized) a truck started […]

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The “Luck” of Barabbas (Part 1)

March 2, 2010 by

Barabbas. Do you remember him? He was the guy when Jesus was before Pilate who was offering for someone to be let go – it was Barabbas who got to go. (Matthew 27:15-26; Mark 15:6-15; Luke 23:18-25; John 18:39-40) You talk about “luck.” That’s what many in our society would call it. While as believers […]

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The “Luck” of Barabbas

October 18, 2007 by

Barabbas. Do you remember him? He was the guy when Jesus was before Pilate who was offering for someone to be let go – it was Barabbas who got to go. You talk about “luck.” That’s what many in our society would call it. While as believers–how many of you know we don’t live life […]

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