Image: a close-up view of a train coupler connecting two cars. I knocked on the white painted door of my girlfriend’s apartment. No one knew I was coming. One of Wendy’s roommates opened the door. It was Charlotte. She was the loud one. She screamed. “Well, hello, Mr. Successful!” Charlotte was an opera student, oneContinue reading “Favor Has Been Uncoupled From Merit. Exodus 11:3.”
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Have You Ever Felt the Sting of Rejection? Psalm 118:22.
If you have felt rejected, you are not alone. Jesus was rejected by the “best,” most elite people of His day, the super-religious, smartest, and most well-educated, the Pharisees and Sadducees. But God did not reject Him—and only God’s view of things matters. Jesus quoted Psalm 118:22: “The stone the builders rejected has become theContinue reading “Have You Ever Felt the Sting of Rejection? Psalm 118:22.”
Winners and Losers.
Pastor Gregg asked us to choose one word to explain who we were BEFORE Christ versus AFTER. I chose “loser.” I was a LOSER. I was bad at things, failed things, broke things, lost things, ruined things. I started late, quit early, did things with half-effort, and the results were bad: loser effort produced loserContinue reading “Winners and Losers.”
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