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    randalkay added a text contribution Certified
    The "Certification" is the seal that is placed upon in object to "secure," "authenticate," a truth. To accept Jesus is to verify the very Person and truth of God. Can one therefore believe in God and not believe in His Anointed One? I guess not. Whereas, the Spirit was "measured" upon the "other" prophets, the Spirit is given without measure to Jesus. And the 'everything" given includes the Spirit, and thus it is the Lord Jesus'… Read more »

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    randalkay added a text contribution The Gifts that Jesus Brings
    Seven Gifts that Jesus Brings (Sermon Development Thoughts) 1. A Brand New Beginning, not just a new start. (3:1-7) 2. The infilling of the Holy Spirit. (3:8) 3. A Deeper Understanding (3:9-14) 4. The Experience of God's Love (3:16) 5. Eternal Life (3:15-17) 6. Redemption rather than Condemnation (3:17-18) 7. Light and Truth. (3:19-21) Cost of the Gift -- Jesus Wrapping of the Gift -- God's love Opening of the Gift -- Our Faith and Response to the Truth Read more »

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    randalkay added a text contribution 10 Steps to Satisfaction (read that "Contentment")
    1) Run Away -- from sin (6:9-11) 2) Run Toward -- godliness (6:11) 3) Fight Well -- for the Faith (6:12) 4) Take Hold -- of eternal life, live its reality now (6:12b) 5) Keep Holding -- don't stop until Jesus appears (6:13-16) 6) Hope in God -- trust not in princes/man to save (6:17) 7) Practice Compassionate Generosity -- give freely (6:18-19) 8) Guard Truth -- as given to you and what it commands (6:20a) 9) Turn Away -- from worthless talk and falsehoods (6:20b) 10) Live Grace -- by it an… Read more »
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    randalkay added a text contribution The Bloated Life
    Albert Haase OFM writes, "Our lives become stuffed with trifles and trinkets--a visible sign that we are not satisfied. Indeed our stuff lives are like the bloated stomachs of starving children. They betray our hunger, not our satisfaction." ('Coming Home to Your True Self', p39) This statement really grabbed me as I thought out the bloatedness of my life. The stuff that bulges from my life and garage. All that "wealth" does not tell the world I am satisfied a… Read more »

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