Month: February 2010
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Turned off by churches
In a conversation today at a fast-food restaurant, a 28 year old man told me that he doesn’t do church anymore. He went on to say that he still “believes in God, reads his Bible and prays.” He asked that I understand where hes coming from. I do. I asked him why. He then went on…
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Valeria, my wife
Today is Valeria’s birthday. God has given me such a great, humble, encouraging, loving, and believing wife. I am truly undeserving of her. The boys and I have been trying to serve her kindly all day- since the other 364 days of the year she does that for us. In honor of Valeria and her birthday,…
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something greater is here
I had an interesting encounter with a lady this week. Let me tell you what happened. There is a passage in Matthew 12, where Jesus is confronted by the Pharisees because Jesus’ followers were performing deeds on the Sabbath. Jesus answers their tattle-tale byasking them if they had not read a few places in the Bible where something…
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Jesus has always existed
Jesus is God. This means that He is eternal. He has always existed. There is not a beginning to Jesus. He has always been. This also means that He is creator too. Jesus created all things. Jesus is God. Here are a few verses that you may have already known that teach us these truths. John…
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Ponder these verses…
1 Samuel 2:12 “Now the sons of Eli were worthless men. They did not know the LORD.” Romans 3:10-12 “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks after God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” Philippians 3:8 “Indeed, I count everything…
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Haiti 3 weeks later
Click on this link to see stunning pictures of Haiti three weeks after the earthquake. This Sunday we will take up a special offering for Haiti. Father God, Please give us hearts for these people and then the strength to do something about it.
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you gotta learn to crawl
Eli, my 9 month old son, began crawling today. You can click this link to see the video. http://joshjr.blogspot.com/2010/02/we-have-crawling-baby.html My oldest, JJ, never crawled, so I never thought much about crawling. But today when Eli took off, I was reminded of that good ol’ sound foundational advice that says ‘you gotta learn to crawl before…