Living By Faith & Not By Sight

Your ability to live by faith has nothing to do with:

Who you are, where you were born, or where you live.

The amount of money you presently have in your bank account, billfold or purse or don’t presently have in your bank account, billfold or purse.

Amount of time you have or don’t have. (Faith has no time, it is always “now” Faith. Faith is always present tense. – I have _____ now. I can do _____ now. I am _____ now.)

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Careful What U Pray 4

A {wealthy|rich} man and his son loved to collect {rare|priceless} works of art. They had everything from Picasso to Van Gogh. They would often {sit together|take time out from their busy schedules} and admire their immense collection.

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There Goes the Neighborhood: The Good Samaritan Story

(Luke 10:25-37)

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Living a LINT-Free Life – Part 2

So – what fiery furnace are you living through? What “outward appearance” is attacking your belief system? The good news is each of us has within us the Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego qualities that, when strengthened, give us the power to stand solid in Truth in the midst of the fiery furnace, and not merely survive, but thrive!

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Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil

We all have the same life purpose: We are here to fully demonstrate the Christ within.

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Dealing With Our Internal Resistance to Truth

There is a great story that demonstrates the advice Jesus gave His followers when He sent them out to tell people the good news – the news that the Kingdom of God is within. It is about a struggle between the Wind and the Sun, about who was the strongest. The Wind thought he was stronger because of his destructive might in tornadoes, hurricanes, sand storms, and thunder storms. He pointed out his ability to transform a simple cigarette or lightning strike into a raging forest fire which could level hundreds of thousands of acres of woods.

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Father, Son, Holy Mackerel – Chapter 1

I can count the times I joined my dad on a fishing expedition on one hand, actually on three fingers. But those three fishing experiences were memorable indeed! I was an inquisitive seven-year-old and was ecstatic about going fishing with my dad.

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