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Worms
The implicit message here is that Church is not a place for non-Christians or "ungodly" people. Those that Jude references appeared to be godly but revealed themselves to be otherwise. I have wondered…
Created 5 days ago
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Over Your Head
Once you're in over your head it doesn't matter how deep the water is. At that point our human methods of measurement are moot. Too many of us live spiritual lives within our own ability to measure…
Created 11 days ago
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Beautiful Love Song
A group named "Glad" had a song years ago that referred to Christ as a "beautiful love song in the night". The analogy was that although beautiful and appreciated, it was largely missed or ignored. Near…
Created 16 days ago
Ezekiel 33:30 (NLT), Ezekiel 33:31 (NLT), Ezekiel 33:32 (NLT)
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The Other Ones
This is the other side of the heroes gallery. Perhaps they stand as an encouragement for those who cannot tell the great spiritual success stories. The truth for these dear folk is that their "faith"…
Created 17 days ago
Hebrews 11:34 (NLT), Hebrews 11:35 (NLT), Hebrews 11:36 (NLT), Hebrews 11:37 (NLT), Hebrews 11:38 (NLT), Hebrews 11:39 (NLT)
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No Doubt
There have been times in my life when I have suspected that my disobedience has created a problem in my spiritual walk. It is as subtle as the unfamiliar noise in the engine of your car or a vibration…
Created 23 days ago
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Health Restored?
Jeremiah 30:17 (NLT)
I will give you back your health and heal your wounds,” says the LORD. “For you are called an outcast— ‘Jerusalem for whom no one cares.’”Created about 1 month ago
Labels: personal promises
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Through My Lifetime
Isaiah 46:4 (NLT)
I will be your God throughout your lifetime— until your hair is white with age. I made you, and I will care for you. I will carry you along and save you.Created about 1 month ago
Labels: personal promises
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Self-Proclaimed Experts
My mind goes directly to those who want to rise to the stage and celebrity status within the church. They were present years ago even when prominence also jeopardized a person. The presence of these types…
Created about 1 month ago
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Re-gifts
Did you ever get a gift that you had no particular regard for? Yes, you love the meaning and the intention of the giver but the gift in itself was of little value. When the gift is tokenism, it is less…
Created about 1 month ago
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Silence is Rarely Safe
Esther was in a position that she naturally wanted to protect. Most of us know what that is like. Circumstances arise that call for a response. One option can bring us jeopardy and loss and the other…
Created 2 months ago
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Saintly Sinners
I never understood why someone entrenched in willful sin, at loggerheads with God, would want to be in a church meeting week after week or why they would feel that there was some compensatory virtue to…
Created 2 months ago
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Support Increases
When there were 400 men (discounted, distressed and in debt - 1Samuel 22:2) who occupied a drippy wet cave with David and he was a rookie fugitive, the temptation to take Saul's throne, was not even on…
Created 3 months ago
1 Samuel 22:2 (NLT), 1 Chronicles 12:19 (NLT), 1 Chronicles 12:22 (NLT), 1 Chronicles 12:38 (NLT)
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Sugar Pills
To acknowledge that God exists and then to live as if He does not is almost worse than denying His existence. To believe in a god who bows to your will is blasphemy. He is either Sovereign or nothing.…
Created 3 months ago
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He Lives at The Church
I used to think that the musicians lived at the church. They were there all the time. Practice upon endless practice. It depended somewhat on the level of perfectionism expected by the Head Musician.…
Created 3 months ago
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Gatekeeper
I do see the modern church in its infancy here. One of the assumptions in church is that everything is common property so things do "come and go". Finding a person who can take care of things and maintain…
Created 3 months ago
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Too Much
The sin of Menasseh … the Lord would not forgive this sin. Chilling. When we have persevered in our ways, contrary to God's plan does there come a time when the limits of God's patience and tolerance…
Created 3 months ago
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Earned a Badge — 21-Day Challenge
2012-02-24
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Isaiah's Prophecy
Isaiah 53:2 (NIV)
He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.Created 4 months ago
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Root of Jesse
Revelation 5:5 (NIV)
Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals."Created 4 months ago
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Root of Jesse
Isaiah 11:10 (NIV)
In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his resting place will be glorious.Created 4 months ago
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Jesus is the Root
Revelation 22:16 (NIV)
"I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star."Created 4 months ago
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Supported by the Root
Romans 11:18 (NIV)
do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.Created 4 months ago
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75 Pound Hat
The "King" thing would get old real quick with a 75 lb. hat on your head every day. But the adoring public looks for a monarch with a "bad-ass" (excuse the term but it somehow seems appropriate to me…
Created 4 months ago
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Letting Go
To be honest, I have heard this message from God. It came in the process of a "church-leave". Actually the process by that time was nearly 4 years old. I began a prayer quest for vision for the church…
Created 4 months ago
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Life in Christ Not Scripture …
John 5:39-40 (NLT)
“You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!Created 4 months ago
Labels: scriptures
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The Things That Haunt Us
When we are on the crest of a victory wave, we may be most vulnerable. It's true in nearly every realm of life. Over confidence breeds carelessness. And confidence in ourselves alone is always misplaced.…
Created 4 months ago
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Nothing Fancy
Uncut stones in a pile … it marked an event and held meaning. Whatever the specificity, there was a general meaning that was never lost. God had done something significant in this place. If men had done…
Created 4 months ago
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The Way It Is
Every "working of God" in our lives is miraculous. The things that happen because He is at work would not happen by our own design or in our own strength. There was the miracle … You are going to take…
Created 5 months ago
Deuteronomy 9:1 (NLT), Deuteronomy 9:2 (NLT), Deuteronomy 9:3 (NLT), Deuteronomy 9:4 (NLT), Deuteronomy 9:5 (NLT), Deuteronomy 9:6 (NLT)
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Whole Lot of Shaking Going On
Haggai 2:6-9 (NIV84)
“This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.Created 5 months ago
Labels: shaking
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Earned a Badge — Created 500 Highlights
2012-01-12
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Lights On - Someone is Home
God is not afraid of the dark … He created it. It is merely the absence of light. The sun and moon are His established governors of these daily periods. The light of the sun rules the day and it's borrowed…
Created 5 months ago
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Job 6:2
Job 6:2 (MSG)
"If my misery could be weighed, if you could pile the whole bitter load on the scales,Created 5 months ago
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Prohibitive Brokenness
Leviticus 21:16-18 (NLT)
Then the LORD said to Moses,Leviticus 21:20-24 (NLT)
or is hunchbacked or dwarfed, or has a defective eye, or skin sores or scabs, or damaged testicles.Created 5 months ago
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Tattoos … can you believe it?
Leviticus 19:28 (NLT)
“Do not cut your bodies for the dead, and do not mark your skin with tattoos. I am the LORD.Created 5 months ago
Labels: obscure direction
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When Life Works For Everyone Else ...
Psalm 37:1-11 (NLT)
Don’t worry about the wicked or envy those who do wrong.Created 5 months ago
Labels: disobedience prospers
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Grieving God
Mark 3:25 (NLT)
Similarly, a family splintered by feuding will fall apart.Mark 3:28-29 (NLT)
“I tell you the truth, all sin and blasphemy can be forgiven,Created 5 months ago
Labels: blasphemy of the holy spirit
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Tired Clothes
Exodus 29:30 (NLT)
The descendant who succeeds him as high priest will wear these clothes for seven days as he ministers in the Tabernacle and the Holy Place.Created 5 months ago
Labels: glad things have changed
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Just prior to my sickness - March 2009
Zechariah 8:13 (NLT)
Among the other nations, Judah and Israel became symbols of a cursed nation. But no longer! Now I will rescue you and make you both a symbol and a source of blessing. So don’t be afraid. Be strong, and get on with rebuilding the Temple!Created 5 months ago
Labels: elaine's promise
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Avoiding Burn Out
Exodus 18:14 (NLT)
When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he asked, “What are you really accomplishing here? Why are you trying to do all this alone while everyone stands around you from morning till evening?”Created 5 months ago
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Seven Things
Proverbs 6:16 (NIV84)
There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him:Created 5 months ago
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We Bad
Colonel Sam Trautman coined the term for me. He was a character created by David Morrell, played by Richard Crenna in the movie “First Blood”. John Rambo, a Vietnam war vet trying to navigate the horrors…
Created 5 months ago
Exodus 13:18 (NIV84), Exodus 14:10 (NIV84), Exodus 14:11 (NIV84), Exodus 14:12 (NIV84)
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Normal Expectations
Hebrews 5:12-14 (MSG)
By this time you ought to be teachers yourselves, yet here I find you need someone to sit down with you and go over the basics on God again, starting from square one-baby's milk, when you should have been on solid food long ago!Created 5 months ago
Labels: spiritual growth
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Matthew 21:12-13
Matthew 21:12-13 (NLT)
Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out all the people buying and selling animals for sacrifice. He knocked over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.Created 5 months ago
Labels: commerce convenience
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Downwardly Mobile
Matthew 20:24-28 (NLT)
When the ten other disciples heard what James and John had asked, they were indignant.Created 5 months ago
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Mark 9:38, Mark 9:40
Mark 9:38 (NLT)
John said to Jesus, “Teacher, we saw someone using your name to cast out demons, but we told him to stop because he wasn’t in our group.”Mark 9:40 (NLT)
Anyone who is not against us is for us.Created 6 months ago
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Friend or Foe
Mark 9:38 (NIV)
"Teacher," said John, "we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us."Mark 9:40 (NIV)
for whoever is not against us is for us.Created 6 months ago
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Friend or Foe
Matthew 12:30 (NLT)
“Anyone who isn’t with me opposes me, and anyone who isn’t working with me is actually working against me.Matthew 12:33-34 (NLT)
“A tree is identified by its fruit. If a tree is good, its fruit will be good. If a tree is bad, its fruit will be bad.Created 6 months ago
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Things I Can Release
Proverbs 3:7-8 (NLT)
Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the LORD and turn away from evil.Created 6 months ago
Labels: let it go
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Good News
Good news … you're pregnant with a son and you'll have innumerable descendants. Bad News ... your son will be an unrivaled jack-ass. It has been a bad deal ever since ... bad news. A perfect Father…
Created 6 months ago
Genesis 16:12 (NLT), Genesis 17:18 (NLT), Genesis 17:20 (NLT)
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-12-03
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Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan
2011-12-02
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Exegetical Gymnastics
It seems to me that Greek scholars participate, at a more informed level, in the same sort of exercises as lesser students of the Bible. We all seem to be able to make the Bible say what we have predetermined…
Created 6 months ago
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Building Fund ...
In 1999, I left a church that will be in a fundraising campaign until Jesus comes ... and likely beyond. This scripture would have been perfect for the financial/spiritual arm twisting that represents…
Created 6 months ago
Haggai 1:5 (NIV84), Haggai 1:6 (NIV84), Haggai 1:7 (NIV84), Haggai 1:8 (NIV84), Haggai 1:9 (NIV84), Haggai 1:10 (NIV84)
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Huh?
I don't really get this. I have heard a lot of explanations but no answers (that satisfy me). It doesn't make sense as a predetermined exemption for the work that Christ did on Calvary. I can't conceive…
Created 7 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 100 Highlights
2011-11-13
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights
2011-08-20
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks
2011-04-29
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2011-01-02
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2010-12-24
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference
2010-12-23
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2010-12-23
Karl Ingersoll
- pastorkarl
- Fredericton, NB
- karlingersoll.com
- Former pastor, organic church planter. www.247network.ca - runner, 3rd degree black belt (Tae Kwon Do). Currently work for wmacommunications.com. RCMP Chaplain
