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This Book Can Change Your Life: Interpretation

This Book will change your life – interpretation – March 26 Comforted Psalm 42:11 Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. Convicted Taught Eph. 1:17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. A daily possibility that Almighty God may…

This Book Can Change Your Life

This Book Can Change Your Life March 19, 2023 “This will change your life!” This book has changed my life  Experience God through the Bible  Why is the Bible so important?  I don’t believe Jesus because of the Bible, I believe the Bible because of Jesus Jesus is God Jesus taught from the OT as a supernatural book  Luke 4:16-21 When he came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on the…

Navigating Life Together: Expectations

Navigating Life Together – Expectations Good relationships are difficult but essential There is no win in comparison Do not be hasty in your spirit to be offended, for resentment resides in the hearts of fools. Ecc. 7:9 Over, under-react  Forgiveness is not passive, it prays for those who offend us Lead with Trust Help me understand When you receive a text, you should reply… Within the week? When you receive a text, you should reply… Within the week? Within the…

Navigating Life Together: Trust

Navigating Life Together – Trust Good relationships are difficult but essential Romans 12:10 Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight  in honoring each other. There is no win in comparison Over, under-react  Forgives is not passive, it prays for those who offend us This generation would rather be cynical than naïve I’m going assume bad motives, the worst, until you prove otherwise To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung…

Navigating Life Together: Forgiveness

Navigating Life together It doesn’t matter how gifted you are if you are difficult to get on with, your gifts are of no value. Martin Lloyd Jones Good relationships are difficult but essential God redeems your life and places you into his family Hebrews 6:10 God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them. There is no finish line with Comparison…

Navigating Life Together: Comparisons

Navigating Life Together: Comparisons Good relationships are difficult The major marker of a fulfilled life is healthy relationships Relationships are critical for a physical wellbeing Marc Schultz If you have no relationships or only bad ones – same health risk as smoking Proverbs 14:30 A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones This is a generation that can’t seem to get along, but desperately needs to Good relationships are difficult but essential God redeems…

Shaping Me: Prayer

Shaping Me: Prayer We are all continually being shaped. What would a life be like to be intentionally be shaped by our loving Creator? God expects ALL of us to participate with Him in growing our godly character. Ray Duerksen 2 Peter 1:3 His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness Colossians 1:29 To this end I labor, struggling with all his energy, which so powerfully works in me. We are shaped by the stories…

Shaping Me: Community

Shaping Me – CommunityFebruary 5, 2023 We are shaped by the stories we believe (internal and external) The good life doesn’t come from having the ability to do what we want but from having the ability to do what we were made for. James Smith We are shaped by our habits What you are getting is what is a result of what you are doing. – Andy Stanley You will never change your life until you change something you do…

Shaping Me: Habits (Part II)

Shaping Me – Habits (Part II) January 29, 2023 Left unattended, your future self may be someone you wouldn’t even recognize.  We are all being shaped every single day in some direction What would this year be like to be intentionally shaped by our loving Creator? Romans 12:2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.…

Shaping Me: Habits (Part I)

Shaping Me: Habits We are all being shaped every single day What would this year be like to be intentionally shaped by our loving Creator? We are shaped by the internal stories we believe Romans 8:6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, Interrupt Anxiety with Prayer Spirit of God, what would you have me think? Little t truth – what is true for me Big T truth…