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Drawing on faith in Christ, I discuss the challenges of life along with the victory and true freedom available in belief in Jesus alone. Born again in 1987, I have traveled a road that has taken many paths and has at times been very traumatic. Raised in a dysfunctional family, sexually abused at a young age, separated from parents at times, along with the devastation that comes from decades in a fellowship which became a religious cult, it felt like the fear, guilt and shame was irreversible ...
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The amazing picture emerges as we look at full context of what is written in our Bible. A King who came to earth, born in a stable, raised up the son of a carpenter, then vilified, slandered, arrested, beaten nearly to death and then murdered on a cruel Roman cross. This King has never lived in a mansion, an ornate temple in a magnificent city. He …
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Authority is at the heart of man's rebellion. When John the Baptist came preaching repentance and baptizing for the remission of sins, it was rooted in the authority of God is Jesus Christ who was coming, who could only be received if one repented of his own self-claimed authority. When you refuse to die to yourself Jesus can't live in you and thro…
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As one reads Paul's letter to the Galatians it becomes for definitive and succinct in declaring the law espoused by Judaism, as well as today's Messianic Judaism and the Hebrew Roots Movement as weak and beggarly and a place of bondage! For those in the Law of Moses, the die on that religious hill adherent crowd, this letter, in context, may make y…
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Love is powerful! Love is God and He is Spirit and works in us to bear love as the fruit of His workmanship in us. Paul writes in Romans 12 that we are to be kindly affectionate to one another. Man that is so cool. Greeting a brother of sister with a big hug, and hugging them goodbye, being kind to one another, helping one another is all the love b…
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TheCorinthian Church of Christ seemed to have some issues of order in the gathering of the children of God. It seems a lot of selfism, arrogance, sectarianism, and men and women not functioning in the God given roles that lifted them both up. One of the ways it was very evident was in the area of speaking in tongues. It seems that some fellowships …
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Speaking in tongues can be as much of a dividing line and hot topic as is Calvinism versus Arminianism or pre, mid, or post tribulation rapture. Tongues are a gift of the Spirit, but what is it's order to be for the believer? We may not have a clear understanding, or we may believe that we do. Either way, does what you believe, or what you do and y…
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I was in my early teens as the hippie love movement was riding high in the mid to late 60's. Born of that, or in answer to it was the Jesus movement, or Jesus revolution and the birth of bands writing and performing songs to God and about God. But the devil continues to promote hatred. But he is diabolical and packages it as love that appeals to ea…
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The Acts of the Holy Spirit chronicled in The Book of Acts are amazing supernatural events! We have the same Holy Spirit, who is God, who lives in we as believers, born again by Him! He is still desiring to do the supernatural and sometimes even what we might call mundane, in and through us. It's time to tear the walls of the box we've put ourselve…
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Brothers and sisters still in bondage to the Law in Hebrew Roots or whatever you choose to call it, it's time to wake up and return to Jesus alone! Galatians 3:19 tells us that the law was added UNTIL the Seed would come. Verse 16 is clear that the Seed is Christ! Therefore, the law was added until Jesus came. What does "until" mean? It means reach…
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The Apostles of Jesus in the Book of Acts, which chronicles the amazing workmanship of God the Spirit in and through them, drew a line in the sand. They made it clear in Acts Chapter Five that they were going to obey God and when man gave them a dictate under threat of violence or death, that was in opposition to what God said, that they would alwa…
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In Acts we see the amazing works of the Holy Spirit in the lives of believers in Jesus Christ. The story of standing for Jesus and the pure gospel, and the mighty deliverance of God in the face of the persecution, imprisonments and death at the hands of the religious establishment is important for us to know. God, who is the Holy Spirit is still wo…
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So, ya think you did your nine months, or 30 days, or many months in jail or years in prison, and you are good to go. Open the door and go free from the bars of prisons, jails, and blackouts and locked doors. But then you find yourself cut loose and suddenly you don't have those guardrails, fences, and structured life and so you struggle and then g…
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Peter told the lame man who was begging for money, at the temple gate to "In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!" No money changed hands, but belief in Jesus was a game changer, literally a life changer! So, to you and me, "In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk," being a vessel of Jesus Christ, God the Spirit…
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Pride is elevated to preferred status these days, and most professing Christians will be quick to point it out. But are we willing to address the Christian pride in our lives. Pride is pride and God resists the prideful, even the proud Christian! It is cut and dried. God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble, and we must have grace! This …
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Too often we do what we do to try and impress and please God. Yet God can only be pleased by faith. The arrogance of thinking we can get God's good attention from how well we keep the law, and how good a rule keeper we can be is a trap to us and to others. Instead of restoring relationships and community we point fingers and tear them down in isola…
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This world has gone nuts! People I love are dying, and relapsing, while looking to religion of man, or man's secular programs, thinking that freedom is from memorizing the written Word, or from knowledge or actions! The still small voice that speaks to us, who is God the Spirit, because of Jesus' finished work on the cross, is replaced by a bombast…
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I am doing this study particularly for those of whom I know are still in the trenches of the Hebrew Roots movement. Maybe you find yourself in a place of fear and doubt, or you have someone you know and love drawn into it and you've being progressively isolated from. That's what cults do. Galatians Chapter Three, in context with the entirety of the…
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My heart is heavy and I feel a defense of the pure and simple gospel is required. The faith within is what matters. We've lost loved ones lately, and many of us are facing grief, loss and hard times. Yet, we make this church life so unappealing, so unattainable, and ourselves so unapproachable by the our stupid religious doctrine! God doesn't care …
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They have said it'll be alright, the cavalry is coming. I say, it more than alright because CALVARY has come! Family, especially those of whom I'm close to in the recovery program - those still in it, and those who've graduated, and to those who have become a part of the family whom the Lord has brought together in unity in Kendallville, alongside …
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Sometimes you just need to go read the back of the book to see how it ends in order to make sense of the beginning and middle of it! Jesus, in The Revelation of Jesus Christ, tells us the amazing conclusion that is in reality everlasting and beyond words amazing life that has no conclusion awaiting you and I who choose to hang our hat on the promis…
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Do you struggle with selfishness, being kind, and gentle with your wife, husband or children? Does self-control seem to be something you can never achieve, as you find yourself back in the same muck and mire again and again? Do you want your life to look like a Christian's life should look? Join me as we look at Colossians Three supported by Galati…
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When I was at Messiah Fellowship, we jettisoned the tried and true practice of expositional study of the Scriptures, verse by verse and chapter by chapter. The result was lost context. We are nearly ready to move on into Galatians Chapter Three. First, however, the cross references to Paul's other letters is so valuable in seeing the context and ke…
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A servant who sticks closer than a brother, who loves us so much that He laid His life down for me and you! That's Jesus, and He is our example of being a bondservant of Jesus who is poured out for our faith. We are to follow Him in that example, by the power of the Spirit, who is God, working in us and through us, taht we are poured out in like ma…
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In Philippians Chapter One Paul talks about those who preach the gospel from selfish ambition. Much like the charlatans on TV and in the big hyped up revivals, who fly around on million dollar jets and have two or three mansions, the Gospel becomes a means of gratifying their flesh. Even so, for those with ears to hear, they will hear the Voice of …
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Jesus pronounced woe upon the scribes and the Pharisees of His day. They represented the excepted and established religion who believed they were a cut above. They knew so much more than the fishermen and the day laborers, let alone the one who may not even have a place to lay His head! The religious like their kingdom and will only pay lip service…
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The eyes of man are blindfolded by his religion and won't allow him to see Jesus as the True Messiah. Deeply held religion misses Jesus and because it begins and is led by a man and not the Spirit who is God. Even after Jesus was grown and had begun His ministry, with all the incredible miracles attesting to He was, the pious religion of Judaism, w…
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On today's episode - What is your motivator? Does pride motivate you to give your best, or does love motivate you? Is giving your best just a dutiful thing that you do, yet you are always comparing what you give to what another gives? With God, it isn't really about what you give. It is really about whether you simply want to please Him by believin…
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The hypocrisy of some in the profession Church of Jesus Christ is sad to see. In pompous arrogance people who have been living on the fringes, who bear the marks of a fallen world and the streets, and they reek of the sin they've been involved in are not welcomed in the church house! Most of the leadership in Pastor Chuck Smith's church were incens…
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If you are on the Hebrew Roots mindset, eventually, when you can no longer spin his letters to say that we still have to be under the law, and keep the law, you become cornered. It is then that a very serious choice must be made. If you believe what Paul writes you find your faith life and walk in Jesus Christ, apart from the law. If you determine …
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Hey everyone! We're taking a break from The Foundation Series to bring you this update on who I am, where I came from, and who I am and where I'm going now, as far as I know. It's also a chance to do, in a small way, another of my passions that I've been blessed to do in my career in music - be a DJ. Yeah, it's just doing song intros, but I loved d…
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You've probably heard the old saying that "What you don't know can't hurt you." I've always questioned that as far as what happens in our lives. But for Adam and Eve, everything was fine when they didn't know good and evil. But isn't knowing good and evil a desirable thing? Adam and Eve thought so. But it was not! When their eyes were opened, they …
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Before Adam and Eve knew good and evil, they ran around naked in front of God and the world, and weren't aware of it! They weren't ashamed! They thought nothing of it. But once they knew good and evil, they then knew and they tried to cover themselves and to hide their nakedness. Join me in this 4th edition of The Foundation Series on the Saddle Up…
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Paul writes there is no other foundation other than that which is already laid, and the Foundation is Jesus. Where to do you find the Foundation? When you begin to build a house the very first part of the construction is the foundation that you will build upon. You may make a mess as you build on it, but if you are building on the good foundation, …
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Mankind's problem is pride in accumulated knowledge. Man thinks he knows but he really doesn't. It' not new! Beginning in Genesis Chapter One we are looking for the foundation of everything, including where this inherent heart problem we all have began. The reminder in Exodus 20 that we are to "remember the Sabbath Day," is critical to consider wha…
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Just because we are no longer under the law, but in grace, doesn't mean we can do what we want to do. God is the Spirit and He is Love. He loved us enough to send Jesus to die a cruel death on the cross in our place. He rose again, ascended to the Father and sent God the Spirit to live in us. We are weak in the flesh, but made strong in the Spirit …
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Life is short! When I was younger it didn't really cross my mind. But now, at 69, seeing people I've known for years passing away, including our oldest daughter, the realization of just how short life is in unavoidable. Life is short and then we die! Then what? While we see the world we live in getting worse, the best is still to come! AND those wh…
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Possessed by the Spirit of the Living God, we are the body of Jesus Christ, His church and we are the manifestation of Jesus to a lost and dying world! In The Spirit, who is God, we are no longer the same man or woman. We're no longer a fornicator, a drug addict, alcoholic, swindler, liar, cheat, murderer. We are new creation and free! Whowouldathu…
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Those in the Hebrew Roots Movement, of the many sectarian versions of Messianic Judaism have the same problem that the Pharisees and Scribes of Judaism had when Jesus first came, born of a woman. They said they believed Moses, but, though they knew and easily quote what he wrote, they didn't believe Him. They put their trust in and bestowed honor u…
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We are sight driven and huge man-made structures tend to make us feel secure. The Kingdom of God and His Temple is not made of man's hands, however. And we struggle with that. We, in the flesh, struggle with a Kingdom that is within a temple that we can't see with our human sight, in comparison to our view of a temple made of brick, mortar, marble,…
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Jesus warned His disciples to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. He said the leaven in hypocrisy. Hypocrites, by definition, are pretenders, like actors on a stage pretending to be someone they're not. They act the part, look the part, sound like the part in man's religion, but they have no power because they don't have the Spirit! They are sim…
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We will do what we think about. Sin begins in the mind, and the more we think about it the stronger it gets and then we do it. Even if we're looking at it for way not to do it any longer! But if we keep our mind on Jesus, focused Him. the Author and Finisher of our faith, He will ALWAYS deliver us from this body of death that is bent on sin. Join m…
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Paul said we are to die daily! How does that work? It is a choice we make to die to our wants and desires, and the way we want our life to be, in order to allow Jesus to live through us. It won't be all sunshine and roses, but it will be exciting. We will likely be persecuted as He was around 2,000 years ago, but we have the promise that we will li…
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Jesus tells us in Luke Chapter 8:18 to "take heed how we hear." How can you hear without a preacher? Jesus came as a preacher of the Kingdom of God. The established religionist of Judaism, though they knew the Scriptures of the OT better than anyone alive, didn't hear what was written. They didn't mix it with faith. They didn't believe. Their focus…
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Jesus' brother, James, writes, in 1:21, "receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls." As the precious bride of Christ, we receive from Him the implanted Word, which is God. As a man unites with a women, and she conceives and bears a human child, we unite with Jesus, receive the Word and bear fruit to the Father. We b…
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Habakkuk writes that, "The just shall live by faith." The many verses supply the witness that we are justified by faith. But the word makes it clear in Habakkuk that those who are justified then live by the same faith that they are justified by and in. We begin looking at various verses to see the full context of the glorious truth that we are free…
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