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TEACUP STORY – BY JOYCE MEYER.



A couple went into an antique shop and saw this BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL MAGNIFICENT little tea cup sitting high up on a shelf. And they just fell in love with that tea cup. They said,” We have got to have that teacup!” They were admiring the teacup – all of a…

I just thought I'd share with you some wonderful news.  It might seem small and trivial to others but for those of you who have a relationship with God, you will see it is no small thing.  Some of you may know my beautiful husband, Gordon, is in a nursing home with end-stage Alzheimer's and cannot talk, and cannot walk (albeit without a handling belt and a nurse either side); if he tries to walk, his legs - which are like sticks - turn to jelly and he has suffered many falls.  He is now…

Here we go—another ‘tion’ word in Romans. 

Condemnation – the state of being condemned

Justification – the act of being made right with God

Sanctification – the process of the Holy Spirit working in us to make us more like Christ.

We have just gotten 'up close and personal' with Paul as he struggled with his sin condition, and then we turn the page, and he tells us that, in spite of our sin, if we are in Christ, we are not condemned … we are not doomed.  (key…

“There was a time in my life that I built highways to temptation.  Meeting them at the door took too long.  Now I find that there are very few temptations that I am interested in pursuing.  Is that wisdom, depression, boredom or God?” a reader wrote, in response to “Meet them at the door, and don’t let them in,” my last morning briefing.  

Wow!  Now that is such an interesting personal insight, isn’t it?  Where he admits that he formerly entertained temptation, now he seems to have…

Good Morning~

So, we’ve been talking about sin . . . about the struggle that is part of the human condition . . .

about Paul’s admission that ‘while he knows the good he ought to do,

            this is the thing he does not do’!   

Here’s the question—from whence does temptation come? 

   Does God tempt us?

       If not … where does the temptation come from??

Hmmmm … consider this from James:

“No one, when tempted, should say, "I am…

“American Dream”  -Casting Crowns



All work no play may have made Jack a dull boy

But all work no God has left Jack with a lost soul

But he's moving on full steam

He's chasing the American dream

And he's gonna give his family finer things



“Not this time son I've no time to waste

Maybe tomorrow we'll have time to play”

And then he slips into his new BMW

And drives farther and farther and farther away



Cause he works…

I wonder if somehow God looks @ me in much the same fashion as I do with my own children...I have never been one to confront, argue or debate for any length of time..  It is a waste of my energy..  I have one  uh-maz-ing child who just makes my head tilt...being a parent I have to wonder, Is this how I frustrate my Father in Heaven???   Perhaps not with my words as my child does but with my actions of argument.  I  have to believe He looks at me at times, shakes his head, and says,  U know I…

''HE THAT COVERETH HIS SINS SHALL NOT PROSPER ;

BUT WHOSO CONFESSETH AND FORSAKETH THEM

 SHALL HAVE MERCY ''....Proverbs 28:13

Are we really living the Gospel Life? Check and see. Are we walking according to the Commandment of Our Lord, the Christ? Check and see. Do we love God with all our Heart, Soul and Srength? Do we love our Neigbour? Are we Clothing the Poor, feeding the Hungry, and Delivering the Captives free.

LET'S LEAVE OUR THEOLOGY BEHIND, AND LET IT HAVE ONLY A SMALL PART IN OUR…

There's a new effort to persuade people to get "Back in church".  It's targeting those who once attended church but who no longer come.  Most participating churches showed an uptick in attendance, and the effort is gaining momentum.

We're for anything that gets people back to church. But how much better…