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Love the Father -What Are the World's Tactics? Part 2
(1 John 2:16)
Remember your castle. You want Jesus seated firmly on its throne. But the devil tries to appeal to your sinful desires with the world system he controls. He hopes you'll surrender to one of his tactics. And, though he carries out these tactics in billions of ways, he only has three temptations he uses over and over again. (3 Minutes/800 Words)
Read moreLove the Father – What Are the World’s Tactics? Part 1
(1 John 2:16)
Remember your castle. You want Jesus seated firmly on its throne. But the devil tries to appeal to your sinful desires with the world system he controls. He hopes you'll surrender to one of his tactics. (5 Minutes/1300 Words)
Read moreLove the Father What Is the World?
(1 John 2:15)
Sin and Satan wills to use our mortal bodies' passions as a way to take the throne. We must not allow it to occur. Even though, as we saw last week, we are forgiven by the Father, in a longstanding relationship with the Son, and victorious by the Spirit, there is still a challenger to the throne of our hearts. (6 Minutes/1600 Words)
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The True Vine #5 -- Love The Father (1 John 2:15-17)
Read moreA Plea: In the War, Abstain
(1 Peter 2:11)
Bullets fly. Missiles launch. Strategies develop. Soldiers deploy. All this, because war is on. Blood, death, and danger. An enemy assaults. Subjection is the goal. This is the image Peter uses to describe the passions of the flesh. (2 Minutes/450 Words)
Read moreFor Whom Does Your Heart Burn?
(Hosea 7:4-7)
Ready. Set. Go. The people of Israel, during Hosea's prophetic work, were primed and prepared for rebellion. Their hearts, like a preheated oven ready to bake, were predisposed to chase after various forms of heartbreaking and painful sin. Their temperature was on high -- 450 degrees and ready to get into something harmful. (3 Minutes, 500 Words)
Read moreGod's Surpassing Power
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“I am happy to share this archival post as a reflection on a topic that has been important to me.
I hope you will enjoy either revisiting this topic with a new awareness or reading it for the first time with fresh eyes.”
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The Unfortunate And Ugly Move From Spirit To Flesh
(Isaiah 43:22-25)
The Lord wants to move his people forward, upward, onward. He has a plan for each one of you. Recently, I've seen this in a fresh way in my own life. The fruit of the Spirit is love -- and there are many outworkings of that love (Galatians 5:22). I believe the Spirit wants to produce a heightened joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control in me. And in you. (10 Minutes/1700 Words)
Read morePerhaps, when thinking of that old life of spiritual deadness, believers might remember themselves as brimming with originality. But it would be wrong to think this way, for our past life was not a self-willed one. Instead, Paul shows us we were all followers. Again, Christ has made a way of escape, and believers have experienced that rescue. We are no longer spiritually dead, and we are no longer hopeless followers. But what had we followed?
Read morePower. Might. Strength. There is a brand of power that is human. There is also a power that belongs to God. Our text calls it “surpassing power.” I am born with Nate-power, but God gives surpassing power. He gives a might and strength which surpasses. But what does God’s surpassing power surpass?
3 Minutes / 500 Words
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