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  When it comes to walking out your faith on a daily basis, have you ever given pause and asked yourself – ‘what am I missing here?’...or perhaps – ‘what am I not doing right?’; because it seems as if there should be ‘something more to this’...if I’m supposed to be ‘walking as Jesus walked’ (1 John 2:6) and ‘loving others as He loved us’ (John 15:12). And just what if there is...’something more’ to all this that you are lacking? Would you be open to discovering just what that might be, and then maybe drawing near to God and asking Him for that which you might be lacking? Jesus spent three years training a handful of men who were, for the most part, ‘unpolished’, unlearned and ‘rough around the edges’ ...when it came to matters of the kingdom of God. But something happened to them and their lives were forever changed as they then went out themselves and delivered this same message they had received...to others throughout the world. And please note - this messages was not designed a...
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  I would invite you to look over yesterday's post once again, maybe for the first time. And may we all remain humble as we examine our own hearts (2 Cor. 13:5).  Do you remember when Jesus foretold His disciples that one of them would betray Him? (Matt. 26:21)  The only finger pointing that followed was at themselves asking: "Lord...is it I?" Have a blessed day.
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  “But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” – Jesus. (Matt.12:36-37) So if I’m not wanting to make these recent messages about ‘immigration’, then why do I keep bringing it up and ‘stirring the pot’? I’ll tell you why – because it is the ‘issue’ staring our country in the face right now...and we can either be like those religious men who walked around it...or be like the Samaritan and face what is before us. (Hope you are caught up reading here from the past two days). And when I say ‘face what is before us’, I mean we first better stop and examine our hearts... as we are admonished to do in 2 Cor. 13:5. We read in Jeremiah 17:9-10: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; Who can know it? I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fru...
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  At the risk of being misunderstood once again, and likely to stoke the coals of heated debate, I am  compelled to wade back in to this topic that has hit a nerve with so many people; and if you do respond, be nice...it’s my birthday today ;-) This has to do with the complicated dilemma of what do we do with the untold numbers of undocumented people who currently reside in this country. As I mentioned the other day, I don’t know what that actual count is, because everything I read suggests between 10-12 million, but the administration continues to insist 20 million crossed over during Biden’s presidency; so I just don’t know how many are here. This is going to be like juggling tennis balls as I walk a tightrope here, because I still want to be clear that my messaging of late is not intended to focus on ‘immigration’ or undocumented immigrants who entered this country ‘illegally’; but it is going to sound...at first, like that is what I am wanting to ‘discuss’. Can we all a...
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  Did you know there are many noble and good things that we ‘believers’ can do...”in the name of the Lord”...that God could be unimpressed by? Things like ‘prophesying and casting out demons’ along with ‘having faith to move mountains, bestowing all our earthly goods to feed the poor...and even offering our bodies/lives to be burned at the stake’...and it still ... ‘profit us nothing’? (Matt. 7:22-23; 1 Cor. 13:1-3) Yeah...take a moment with that one, if you would. Jesus was the one who drew this ‘line in the sand’ when He proclaimed that “not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord’, will enter the kingdom of heaven; but only those who do the will of My Father who is in heaven.” (Matt. 7:21). Which may lead one to ask: “So what exactly is...the ‘will of the Father’? Well for starters, how about we ‘keep the commandments of God’? Jesus said if we loved Him, that’s what we’d do (John 14:15). And you see this echoed throughout John’s first epistle- (1 John 3:-6; 2:17; 5:2-3) Perhaps y...
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  That tiny bar of soap in the image I posted was made from the human fat of Jewish prisoners who were killed in the concentration camps during WW2. I actually held that bar in my hands 15 years ago. I spent six months working on a photo project with living Holocaust survivors in the Dallas area back in 2010. I will never forget the day Mike Jacobs placed that in my hand and asked me if I knew what it was, and I began to weep and tremble when he did...because I knew exactly what it was. Most estimates agree that nearly 6 million Jews were exterminated in various Nazi prison camps during the 1930’s and 40’s located throughout Germany and Poland. That is just the number who actually suffered horrific deaths in gas chambers before having their bodies cremated in the ovens that burned 24/7. Clearly, many more were apprehended and eventually survived. I had the privilege to meet a few dozen of them personally, even becoming good friends with one of them. Were all 6 million of th...
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  Do you know about the ‘ICE Agents’ that God is sending out? (Matt. 13:41) Whether you see yourself as a ‘Christian’, a ‘Conservative’, or perhaps a ‘Christian Conservative’...please hear my heart as I struggle to make sense of what is happening in our country with our immigration policies and challenges that are ripping this country apart. There's nothing wrong for any sovereign country to have stringent immigration policies, nor is it wrong to stop the flow of ‘illegal entries’ which has been a huge campaign issue and talking point here in the U.S. for decades. But never in a million years did I ever see it being even remotely feasible to 'round up and remove’ countless numbers of people who ended up here year ago (‘not the legal way’) and who have established families and businesses and livelihoods in this country and are living decent productive lives here. It's one thing if we’re apprehending violent criminals that are not citizens and we kick them out... fine; or arr...
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