Author: matt
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And I quote…
“Sin is like a wound in your heart. [When you don’t have sin] and have love and joy and peace — it’s like you don’t have any wounds.” – Gemma Higgins, Age 6
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abasing and abounding
“I know how to be abased, And I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.. (Phil 4:12). ..yet indeed I also count all things loss for the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.…
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worth and worthiness
In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam – Azariah…became king. And he did right in the sight of the Lord… Then the Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper until the day of his death… 2 Kings 15:1-5 If this were the entire story — it would be rather sad.…
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For the record
But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. – Galatians 1:8 I’ve noticed a frightening thing in church culture lately: A failure to communicate the essentials of the gospel message. Although I trust that God can…
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Mountain Climbers: A parable.
Once upon a time, in a community just like yours, there was a mountaineering club. Their goal was threefold: 1) To get more people interested in climbing mountains and in joining the club. 2) To train those people up to be great climbers 3) To send them out on expeditions to climb uncharted mountain ranges…
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my life is ruined
O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life my…
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if your gonna be great
And the LORD said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself against Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me. – Judges 7:2 Here is a principle that you can take to the bank: If…
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directed steps
A man’s heart plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps. Proverbs 16:9 Have you ever had a plan? A dream? A vision? A desire of your heart? Most of us do. We get in the car sometimes, and my daughter Gemma has a plan of where she thinks we should go. But she…
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living in the overflow
I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. John 15: 5 “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” John 7:38 How…
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go!
“Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.” – Charles Spurgeon I was reading this afternoon about a church mission trip in a foreign city this past week. The group did all sorts of great stuff — taking time to talk to people on the street, getting to know store owners and business people.…
Invited & Called 