Moving Hearts Towards the Healer

Last month, I shared with you all in another post how the first step in disciple making often begins with a simple conversation and a simple invite to experience something beautiful. Beauty peaks our interest. Beauty stirs something in our soul that aches to be alive. Here's...

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REFLECTIONS ON TREATING PEOPLE RIGHT

The more I allow the Holy Spirit to examine my heart the more I realize that I need a constant re-calibration in the way I view people.  It is just too easy to treat people wrong. Here are a few things the Spirit is teaching me. 1) I am much more arrogant than I realize. This comes out in my expectations of people.  I have a tendency to expect people to treat me in the way that I think...

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Am I Winning?

We all want to win.  There's no question about it.  When God made Adam and Eve and put them in the garden, He told them to go and "subdue it" and rule over it.  I like to rephrase it this way:  "Make the place better because you're here!" Isn't that what we all want?  To...

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One Day Closer to Death... A Prayer

A beautiful prayer from Sam Smith - Rock Bridge Chatsworth Campus Pastor --------------------- From the Journal of Sam Smith - May 17, 2017 Good morning Jesus.  I am working on my following You.  I am trying to stop listening to that voice in my head that speaks negatives and...

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Learning to Remain in Him - Obedience

By Alfred Turley In a previous post a few weeks ago, I started a discussion of the importance of remaining in Christ, and specifically made this point:  We have Jesus Christ, and incredible access to our Heavenly Father.  We have the Holy Spirit living inside of us.  But...  Does...

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Putting Up with The Stink

There's a question that regularly comes to my mind:  What should a true disciple of Jesus look like? And... do I look like that? I want my life to bring good "publicity" to Jesus.  Those who follow Him should have lives that say to the world, "Hey, this Jesus really is a treasure worth pursuing!"  People should see a difference in us, right?  But if our lives don't look any more...

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