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Lifeboat vs. Loveboat

  Updated 4/18/16 Kingdom Principle:  Love is Power.  God communicates love. Kingdom Servants will  hear the voice of God or learn God’s sign-language. Acts 11:1-18 Psalm 148 Revelation 21:1-6 John 13:31-35 Unfortunately many in the Christian church have lived with … Continue reading

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Dead Wait

Kingdom Principle: Hope floats; therefore the dead shall rise. Isaiah 65:17-25 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 Acts 10:34-43 Luke 24:1-12 It is made clear to us when things are not going the way we expected, that we are simply not in control … Continue reading

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Prodigal daughter weeps with Jesus

Kingdom Principle: Forgetting precedes Forgiveness Forgetting frees us to forge ahead – Mary “forgot” what money can buy Isaiah 43:16-21 Psalm 126 Philippians 3:4b-14 John 12:1-8 The Prodigal Daughter is the story of this week’s passage in John. Here Mary … Continue reading

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Weak Knees or Weakness- you’ll bend

Kingdom principle: human relationships require reconciliation… Reconciliation requires forgiveness… which requires repentance…which requires confession… which requires Christ. Joshua 5:9-12 Psalm 32 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 The statement weak in the knees is usually directed at a emotional response … Continue reading

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Why? is not the cry! Newtown meet Siloam

Kingdom principle: To Engage the Change of God: REPENT Isaiah 55:1-9 Psalm 63:1-8 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 Luke 13:1-9 Charles Spurgeon (great preacher/theologian of the 1800’s) writes: “Repentance is a discovery of the evil of sin, a mourning that we have … Continue reading

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Spiritual OCD

Kingdom Principle: The King’s in control is to be our confession. Our desire for control constrains God’s desire for transformation. Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18 Psalm 27 Philippians 3:17-4:1 Luke 13:31-35 If the King is in control, then there is no such … Continue reading

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Lost in the Wilderness…

Kingdom principle: God uses wilderness to conform our will to His Deuteronomy 26:1-11 Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16 Romans 10:8b-13 Luke 4:1-13 Pain and Suffering are universal to humanity, says Seth Jethani in his book With… along with that comes the world’s … Continue reading

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Into-me-you-see…Intimacy

Kingdom Principle: Prayer is Constant Change Exodus 34:29-35 Psalm 99 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2 Luke 9:28-36, (37-43a) I have laid a foundation of prayer in a previous post – Puberty of Prayer – there we discovered that God desires to move … Continue reading

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Stop – Read First!

Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10 Psalm 19 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a Luke 4:14-21 Kingdom Principle:  The body must be disciplined & We are Christ’s body. The Body is disciplined, developed and directed to be with the King. Almost anything you purchase today … Continue reading

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