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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights
2012-02-15
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Earned a Badge — Completed 3 Reading Plans
2012-02-03
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let it be
"Let it be." John Lennon I'm American. Although I've lived overseas for more than 20 years, if you cut me, I still bleed red, white and blue. Americans don't wait for things to happen, we make things…
Created 7 months ago
Colossians 3:15 (NLT), Colossians 3:16 (NLT), Colossians 3:17 (NLT)
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Resolving Conflict
Missionaries leave their mission fields, pastors leave their flocks, not because of persecution, or deep doctrinal differences, but most often because of interpersonal conflict. In one study in Kenya,…
Created 7 months ago
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The clothing of community
As I walked to work today in busy Hong Kong, I passed hundreds of school children, in their school uniforms heading to another day of "learning". When I first saw kids in uniforms I thought "wow, kids…
Created 8 months ago
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Chosen to be a loved one
Genesis 3:12 NLT Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. I almost never win anything. If…
Created 9 months ago
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All that matters
11 In this new life, it doesn’t matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile,tcircumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized,t slave, or free. Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us. What…
Created 9 months ago
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the well dressed Christian
Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him. In this new life, it doesn’t matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric,…
Created 10 months ago
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Ruthless
Paul goes after sin like a cancer surgeon. He's ruthless. COLOSSIANS 3:5-9 NLT So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust,…
Created 10 months ago
Colossians 3:5 (NLT), Colossians 3:6 (NLT), Colossians 3:7 (NLT), Colossians 3:8 (NLT)
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Time for some spiritual Spring cleaning
"So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. Don't be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping…
Created 10 months ago
Colossians 3:5 (NLT), Colossians 3:6 (NLT), Colossians 3:7 (NLT), Colossians 3:8 (NLT), Colossians 3:9 (NLT)
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under the knife
In the Philippines guys are circumcised as they enter puberty. It's a rite of passage. Glad I was born in America where doctors handle this when we're a few days old. At the time of the early church,…
Created 10 months ago
Colossians 2:11 (NLT), Colossians 2:12 (NLT), Colossians 2:13 (NLT), Colossians 2:14 (NLT), Colossians 2:15 (NLT)
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Reality
Colossians 3:1 NLT Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God's right hand. 2 Think about the things…
Created 10 months ago
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Christ 1.0
I'm a technophile. I love to read about the next great technology. I have a drawer full of the "next best things", that are now "last year's junk" that nobody wants. Over the years I've become more discerning…
Created 10 months ago
Colossians 2:6 (NLT), Colossians 2:7 (NLT), Colossians 2:8 (NLT), Colossians 2:9 (NLT), Colossians 2:10 (NLT)
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Are you in agony yet?
I've been involved in several church plants, sharing Christ, training up believers and leaders, visiting homes, planning worship services, etc. I don't think I have "agonized" for the believers I have…
Created 11 months ago
Colossians 2:1 (NLT), Colossians 2:2 (NLT), Colossians 2:3 (NLT), Colossians 2:4 (NLT), Colossians 2:5 (NLT)
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The Secret: Christ!
When you have suffered for something, you don't easily let it slip away. I recently read Winston Churchhill's The Second World War. The account is a bit disheartening at times, because he tried over and…
Created 11 months ago
Colossians 1:23 (NLT), Colossians 1:24 (NLT), Colossians 1:25 (NLT), Colossians 1:26 (NLT), Colossians 1:27 (NLT), Colossians 1:28 (NLT), Colossians 1:29 (NLT), Colossians 2:1 (NLT), Colossians 2:2 (NLT), Colossians 2:3 (NLT), Colossians 2:4 (NLT), Colossians 2:5 (NLT)
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Drifting
Have you ever tried standing in a fast moving stream of water? The sand and rocks are dragged from under your feet as you wobble back and forth trying to keep your balance. Finally you get your feet settled…
Created 11 months ago
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Resume of Jesus: Reconciler
A Truth and Reconciliation Commission was set up in S. Africa after the end of aparteid. Its goal was to find out the truth about the crimes that had occurred over the decades of injustice, and to bring…
Created 11 months ago
Colossians 1:20 (NLT), Colossians 1:21 (NLT), Colossians 1:22 (NLT)
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Christ the Creator
I have a small business and I'm trying hard to get it to run without me. If I'm not here I hope things will still run smoothly. Unfortunately that's not always true. I am, at this stage, semi-essential.…
Created 11 months ago
Colossians 1:15 (NLT), Colossians 1:16 (NLT), Colossians 1:17 (NLT)
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Me Blind?
The following notes are questions, some which will be used in a story telling approach to teaching John 9. The story is told, reviewed and retold by the listeners. Then we discuss some questions. How…
Created 11 months ago
John 9:1 (NLT), John 9:2 (NLT), John 9:3 (NLT), John 9:4 (NLT), John 9:5 (NLT), John 9:6 (NLT), John 9:7 (NLT), John 9:8 (NLT), John 9:9 (NLT), John 9:10 (NLT), John 9:11 (NLT), John 9:12 (NLT), John 9:13 (NLT), John 9:14 (NLT), John 9:15 (NLT), John 9:16 (NLT), John 9:17 (NLT), John 9:18 (NLT), John 9:19 (NLT), John 9:20 (NLT), John 9:21 (NLT), John 9:22 (NLT), John 9:23 (NLT), John 9:24 (NLT), John 9:25 (NLT), John 9:26 (NLT), John 9:27 (NLT), John 9:28 (NLT), John 9:29 (NLT), John 9:30 (NLT), John 9:31 (NLT), John 9:32 (NLT), John 9:33 (NLT), John 9:34 (NLT), John 9:35 (NLT)
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Resume of Jesus: head of the Church
As I read this section of Paul's letter I'm impressed first by all the "superlatives" he uses to describe Jesus: "the head" "the beginning" "supreme over all" "first in everything" "God in ALL his fullness"…
Created 11 months ago
Colossians 1:18 (NLT), Colossians 1:19 (NLT), Colossians 1:20 (NLT)
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Resume of Jesus: Visible image of the invisible God
I find this difficult to comprehend : Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. What compares to this? Is Jesus like my breath on a cold winter's day, making the invisible visible? How can…
Created 12 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2011-06-14
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Freedom and forgiveness
I have no excuse for living like a bottom feeder. God the Father has made me able to live in light. Colossians 1:12b-14 NLT He has enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to his people,…
Created 12 months ago
Colossians 1:12 (NLT), Colossians 1:13 (NLT), Colossians 1:14 (NLT)
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Who are you?
Colossians 1:2 NLT My coworker Nely often says "sir, be careful what you say, your words have power ". She believes in a bit of positive confession. I'm not into "name it, claim it ", rather I believe…
Created about 1 year ago
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Identity
I'm not going to make a sermon out of Paul's hello, but it's interesting to compare how he describes himself and Timothy. Colossians 1:1 NLT This letter is from Paul, chosen by the will of God to be…
Created about 1 year ago
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Glory and faith
This story closes by telling us that this was Jesus' first miracle and the first time he revealed his glory. I find that surprising. If I were Jesus' agent, I would be really upset. "Jesus, are you kidding!…
Created about 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-05-05
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Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan
2011-04-17
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference
2011-03-14
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Reading Plan
2011-03-05
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2010-12-29
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Luke 19:8
Luke 19:8 (NLT)
Meanwhile, Zacchaeus stood before the Lord and said, “I will give half my wealth to the poor, Lord, and if I have cheated people on their taxes, I will give them back four times as much!”Created over 1 year ago
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1 John 4:1
1 John 4:1 (NLT)
Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world.Created over 1 year ago
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Psalm 146:5
Psalm 146:5 (NLT)
But joyful are those who have the God of Israel as their helper, whose hope is in the LORD their God.Created over 1 year ago
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