Jesus asks us to love each other, to love our neighbors, and to love our enemies, and this is the most powerful evidence the world will have that He exists and offers them eternal life.
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Lost, discouraged, and depressed in the most difficult transition of my life, fasting and prayer broke through the bonds that tied me to the past.
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As kids and teens, we sprint toward the supposed freedom and privileges of adulthood. Most then boomerang into marriage and kids.
There’s nothing wrong with that progression. The problems come from activity without purpose or focus.
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True discipleship happens where often unhappy clusters of believers are pressed by His love to face their own weaknesses, fears, and hang-ups with equally flawed folks.
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We want to believe in them, but we hate to be categorized as religious nuts. If what Jesus said matters, then miracles are a must for the Church.
Pastor Larry asks, “WHY miracles, and HOW do they work?” and shows us the “Tools of Ordinary Miracle People.” There is a difference between "believing" in "miracles" and simply seeing that we are miracles walking…The Living Miracle Worker has equipped us to be miracle workers in this life!
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From his first death threat in Luke 4 to his death and resurrection, Jesus constantly urged people to interpret the Scriptures through the lens of love, where we love God and love others as ourselves.
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With more than 1.1 billion believers, the Roman Catholic Church is the first and largest institution in the Christian world. Pastor Larry addresses perceived strengths and weaknesses of Catholicism, and notes that the problems of the past are the problems of the present for ALL churches, including Protestant churches.
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Until Jesus’ death and resurrection, his ministry was basically limited to the people he could reach personally or through his twelve disciples.
Afterward, the Holy Spirit’s indwelling power was given on Pentecost, allowing Jesus to duplicate Himself exponentially from generation to generation through an army of empowered followers on earth.
The same love for the world that caused the Father to give his only Son also caused the Son to give you and I to the hurting people in our generation.
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We need the focus provided by the Advent season to keep us on track as followers of Jesus. Much as a woman “great with child” must focus on the goal to navigate the final weeks before delivery, so must we refocus on the “promise yet to come” to navigate life’s distractions and disappointments.
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