Tag Archives: sanctification

SOAP: Day Eleven – Free Indeed

I don’t think I’m alone in saying that once the newness of relationship with Christ wears down (and ideally that should never happen!) then the old emotional baggage of traumas, negative thinking patterns, fears, and resentments seem to bubble back up from someplace long dead and buried.  Continue reading

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SOAP: Day Five – Come And You Will See

Many argue that the Bible isn’t relevant any longer, that it is simply a collection of stories from ancient times long past. 

SOAP is the answer to that misconception. The Word is alive and if we come to it with a hunger and thirst for finding relevance, we will find it, because it is there.  Continue reading

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Self-Preservation Often Isnt…

Taking the path of least resistance is the quickest way to pop up on The Enemy’s radar. Satan loves to pile on when he see’s us letting fear, laziness or selfishness choose our path.  Continue reading

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Think About Such Things

Any strongholds that continue to plague us as we press into our shared journey of redemption as disciples of Jesus Christ is not anything that surprises or offends God. Yes He hates sin, but He loves us! It isn’t 3 strikes your out or even 300 strikes your out. Continue reading

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The Cost of Being a Disciple

It’s easy to call ourselves Christian but what does being a disciple look like? Continue reading

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Attitude Check: Am I A Pharisee

Matthew 5:8 “‘These people honor me with their lips,     but their hearts are far from me. My heart is heavy this morning. It has been for quite some time. There are concepts in God’s word that I’m just not mature … Continue reading

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Who Am I To Preach?

for they could see that they were ordinary men with no special training in the Scriptures Continue reading

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What Should I Do?

John 4:34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. I’ve been struggling with the routines of life lately. Gratefully my natural tendency to live in the extremes is being … Continue reading

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Made Right With God

Romans 10:10-13 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. 11 As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put … Continue reading

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Does Our Response Matter?

2 Peter 1:3-11 3 His divine power has given us everything needed for life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 Thus he has given us, through these things, his … Continue reading

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