What is your job description? Some are clearly defined: ride the back of the trash truck and empty trash cans into the truck at each stop. Others are loosely defined: be my personal assistant, show up at 8 every morning and do whatever I ask until I send you home. What is the job descriptionContinue reading “Don’t Make Your Job Complicated—Obedience is Simple. Jeremiah 22:3.”
Category Archives: If you LOVE Me, Obey My Commands
IF THERE WERE A SECRET RECIPE FOR JOY, WOULD YOU FOLLOW IT? Hebrews 1:9
When I cook, I almost never use a recipe. I like to be creative and “let the spirit move me.” But I also cook things that are easy and that I am used to cooking (you could argue there is a recipe; I simply memorized it). But if you cook challenging meals for large groupsContinue reading “IF THERE WERE A SECRET RECIPE FOR JOY, WOULD YOU FOLLOW IT? Hebrews 1:9”
OBSERVE ALL THINGS. Matthew 28:20.
When Jesus gave us our mission statement, he included a phrase I had not noticed until yesterday’s sermon at Kingsland: “Teach them to observe all things that I have commanded” Matthew 28:20. In context, that means that my mission in life is to “Go… and make disciples… baptize them… and teach them to observe allContinue reading “OBSERVE ALL THINGS. Matthew 28:20.”
More Blessed than Mary. Luke 11:28
Jesus pointed out to the Pharisees that their ancestors loved Solomon, “but one greater than Solomon is here,” and the people of Nineveh listened to Jonah, “but one greater than Jonah is here.” Is that bragging? No. He is speaking the truth in love. They needed to hear the truth from Him directly. Then aContinue reading “More Blessed than Mary. Luke 11:28”
STARDUST. Jeremiah 22:15-16.
In 1987, on a bus from Beaumont to Houston, I met Stardust, an aging Hippie who talked to me about God. He was intoxicated by the false notion that nothing can be known for certain. He challenged me. “How do you KNOW that you know God?” I remembered one verse: “If you love Me, you’llContinue reading “STARDUST. Jeremiah 22:15-16.”
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