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So Your Life Is Falling Apart

So your life is falling apart. I know, you lost something. You lost your job, or you lost your wife in a divorce, or you lost your father, mother, son, or daughter because they died, or you lost… Read More

Love Like Jesus–Jesus and Competition

Baseball Player Lines The World Series is happening right now and it reminds me of a story I once heard from a Fire Chief named Dennis Compton. Like me, Dennis is a Cubs fan. (Please pray for us, and… Read More

The Holy Spirit: How to Know if You Have Him

One of our most popular posts. From the Archives: At church the other night our pastor directed anyone interested in receiving prayer for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit to go to the prayer room after the service…. Read More

Love Like Jesus: Grace for a Trespass

The temple tax collectors approached Peter and asked him directly, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the Temple tax?” Peter was on the spot. He didn’t really know if Jesus intended to pay the Temple tax or not. But instead… Read More

Love Like Jesus–A Church Feeds Four Thousand: Matthew 15:32

A Church Feeds Four Thousand My church is located pretty much in the middle of nowhere. If you want to see just how remote it is, you can look at it on a Google map here. It’s in… Read More

Who is Jesus? Video

Great video by Cold Water Media, via Anastasia Bennett and Evan Way of Door of Hope. Who Is Jesus? – TRUE U3 from ColdWater Media on Vimeo.

Joseph, Jesus, and the Key to Your Choices: Genesis 49:22-26

To see the previous post from Genesis, go to Can God Use a Sinner Like You, or Like Me? Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine near a spring, whose branches climb over a wall. With bitterness… Read More

Steve Jobs, Jesus, and Anger: Genesis 49:5-7

Read Genesis 49:1-28 “Simeon and Levi are brothers— their swords are weapons of violence. Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly, for they have killed men in their anger and hamstrung oxen as they pleased. Cursed be their… Read More

Love Like Jesus — Love With Loyalty: Matthew 12:1-2

At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing… Read More

Prepare Yourself for What’s Ahead: Genesis 47:14-27

To see the previous post on Genesis go to Financial Feast and Famine. Read Genesis 47:14-27. Joseph’s Choices and Consequences So here we see Joseph, after his preparation for these years of famine that have come upon Egypt… Read More

Love Like Jesus — God’s Will When You’re Suffering: Luke 4:28-29

All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw… Read More

9/11 and the Coming Election: Genesis 47:1-6

To read the last post on Genesis, go to Ready to Die. Read Genesis 47:1-6 Joseph’s family are now with him in Egypt, and while that’s good, he still has a big frog to swallow. He has to… Read More