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No speech should last more than 20 minutes. 【1】 The Sermon on the Mount, a collection of sayings and teachings of Jesus, for example, lasted hardly more than three minutes. Focus on one topic. We’re human and tend to have lots of thoughts, opinions and ideas. You have to make pro...
” Jesus also said “he that is not with me is against me.” There is no middle ground, and there is a sin that cannot be forgiven: Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Continuing on, Jesus said that the only sign given will be the sign of Jonah. Finally Jesus in a way rejected his...
Dave:I now know what my next sermon is. [Laughter] Bob:You’ve got the outline; don’t you? Dave:I just got a vision from God. [Laughter] Jeffrey:That’s so good. Dave:No; seriously, those three points apply to our walk with God, to how we parent, and how we live; I mean...
Pastors, if your worship attendance numbers, offering total or sermon wasn’t great this past Sunday. It’s OK. To, in part, quote the late great, Tony Campolo, “It’s Monday, but another Sunday is a comin’.” In other words, you get another chance this week for all those things...
No.This is what happens when a single verse is pulled out of context. It can end up being misunderstood, misused, misapplied – and causing a lot of collateral damage. Matthew 7 is part of the Sermon on the Mount, and I have a 400 page book that expounds on only the Sermon on the...
Hi! I'm Sonia. I'm so glad you are here. There's a story in the Bible in John chapter 4 about a woman with a broken past. That's my back story, but then that woman (and this woman) met Jesus. This blog is a glimpse at the"now story". Welcome to John4Fou
CARLSON: So Audrey Hale’s very existence as a transgender person was so threatening to authorities that they killed her just as the Pharisees killed Jesus. Her death had nothing to do with the fact she just murdered six people. That was the pastor’...
Nobody, God included, cares about everything the same. Agency and action requires caring about some things more than other things. Second, there’s the biblical argument. Making what is minor major and what is major minor is itself a major thing that Jesus was explicitly super against (#...
Then it is that we turn to this blessed Book, for there is no other book in all the world that can give us the slightest comfort; no other book that can tell us where the loved ones have gone. Not long ago I met an old friend, and as I took him by the hand and asked after ...