From Questions, Two Applications
It's Sunday morning, 10am, thirty minutes until the service begins. I still have six slides to complete for the power point, bulletins to print and cut, but I have no one to set them out in the pews...so I will have to make sure it gets done as well...my brain is foggy and body tired …
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Have you ever set aside that which was important to you for something greater? Time spent on you instead given to another. Fifty dollars that you needed was given to someone in need. Maybe it was more than setting aside, it was you willfully losing forever that precious part of your life? No one took …
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Have you ever suffered? I am not looking for anything rare or severe. Have you in your personal experience suffered? It may have been on or in your body. Maybe it was emotionally, financially, relationally, mentally, spiritually...the human experience is so vast it really is impossible to make an exhaustive list, yet I hope you …
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Jesus taught his disciples in Mark 9:35, "If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all." Before we look closer at that verse we need to realize a couple of things about its surroundings. This is the second explicit statement Jesus has made regarding discipleship. Earlier in 8:34 …
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The Reforming Raker 