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Oh, how much we have learned about faithful godly living from Paul’s two letters to the church at Corinth! And now we move into the home stretch of his second letter. And yet again as we start out chapter 10, we see Paul defending his apostleship. From our 2000-year later perspective, it is still incredible to think of Paul defending his calling and his viability as a…

Extravagant Love. An excerpt from Love Beyond Reason. It fits so well--right here, right now.

A woman entered the house. Luke…

It seems the subject of Giving is often accompanied by suggested guidelines, recommended percentages, and veiled apologies for bringing

it up, (along with the assumption that the associated organization’s

Giving must be down). As a ministry leader and director of a 501-C3, I

know that even mentioning Giving makes me uncomfortable! I have a

little different perspective as I write today. In 2 Corinthians…

Sorrow and Joy. (drawn from 2 Corinthians 7.2-16)

An auburn-haired lad set out to make his way down the street to his grandmother’s house. He carried a little plastic boat in his hand, ready to set it afloat on the stream that flows along the back of her property.…

Extra! Extra! Read all about it—Acts Two Church in Long Beach!

Our discussion was wrapping up, and our prayer time about to begin at the Sanctuary…

If You Are Unequally Yoked… 2 Corinthians 6.14

“Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers,” Paul warned.

‘Didn’t much apply to you when you got married because neither of you were too interested in God. But then after your first child…

Second Corinthians 7, verse 1 could really serve as a prologue:

let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness…

The Pure Life.

let us purify ourselves from

everything that contaminates body and spirit,

perfecting holiness out of reverence for God…

I remember the drive up to Santa Ana like it was yesterday, going to visit a friend’s mother who was about to lose her battle with cancer. I

wound my way through an old neighborhood, checked to make sure the

house number was correct, and walked up to ring the doorbell. A rose lover myself, I couldn’t help but notice several beautiful garden roses she had on her front walkway.…

In the movie “The Last Emperor”, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand eunuch

servants at his command. “What happens when you do wrong?” his brother asks. “When I do wrong, someone else is punished,” the boy emperor replies. To demonstrate, he breaks a jar, and one of the servants is beaten.…

Popeye was sitting on the ground, leaned up against the Sanctuary as we pulled up to the curb in Long Beach. Perhaps he…

Good Day!

Indeed, God created you . . .

and as you have submitted your will to his, he has re-created you. You are a new creation!…

I wonder what it was like at the beginning—you know when God formed Adam into a man, and breathed life into him. Can you

imagine watching God create? “The

Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his

nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”…

Me . . . A new creation? 2 Corinthians 5.16-17

As long as hope is alive, a person’s will is alive. Hope – a desire of some good, accompanied with an expectation of obtaining it. . . Paul said, ‘and now abide these three things: faith, hope and…