Tag: following Jesus
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Living Sacrifice? Contradiction, don’t you think?
As we’ve walked through Romans together, Paul has made God’s sovereignty and the Lordship of Christ the forefront of the conversation. From Him and through Him and to Him are all things. This truth has a great impact on the way that we live and the way that we exist as a local church on…
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I Am a Reject, will you join me?
I have experienced more rejection on this earth in ministry than doing anything else. Rejection, it seems, simply comes with being a pastor and trying to not only preach God’s word well, but to live and to operate by it. We fear rejection. We want people to like us. This is what causes so many…
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Am I a Genuine Christ-follower?
You know those snack bars that you can get from the grocery store? The Kind snacks company has what they call a healthy snack bar. In their commercials they make this claim: “People confuse nice and kind, but they’re different. Nice tells you what you want to hear, but kind is honest. This bar is…