“Yet Hates…”
Yet hates … (1 John 2:9) I can remember the day I was sitting on our sofa at home, study Bible in my lap and coming to 1 John 2:9. I just couldn’t breeze on over to verse 10 because of these two words that stopped me right there –…
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Love Keeps No List of Wrongs
“Love keeps no record of wrongs.” Some Bible translations says, “Love thinks no evil.” The word literally “thinks no evil” is the Greek word logizomai. And that word is an accountant’s word; it literally means “to keep a mathematical calculation.” It is the word that is used in a ledger…
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All On a Torn Piece of Paper
First, I want to apologize for not having posted on this website in so long. As many of our SUBSCRIBERS know, I have other web-based platforms. For example, on one of them last month, we took the entire month of June to daily study the theology of Joy. Every day…
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Week 10 – 1 John Bible Study (1 John 4:7-21)
HERE IS THE LINK TO Week 10 Bible study – and attached is the listening guide. 1 John Week 10 Love Is What does the “love from God” look like when it is occupying and operating in and through our life? Does the Bible tell us specifically what love…
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Week 8 – 1 John Bible Study (1 John 3:1-24)
“Children of God Love One Another” is the title to Apostle John’s letter found in the third chapter of First John. He already addressed this one distinguishing mark of love concerning a true child of God in the second chapter, but now in chapter three he takes the quality of…
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Week 2 – 1 John Bible Study
Hi friend, What a wonderful night of listening and gathering more insights from the Word we had this past Wednesday night! I knew it was going to take the full time together to cover such a volume of material, but it’s so necessary that we understand who John was as he…
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300,000 Miles
300,000 miles – Rip hit that today in his Avalanche truck that he bought in 2004, and he sent me a photo of it as soon as he did because, for me … That 300,000 miles happened because of so many selfless and humble reasons. Rip puts our 5 kids…
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A Home at Rest – Relational R.E.S.T. – Video 6
Hi friends! Well, we made it already to Video #6 and it is one that is so so so incredibly important IF we are going to live, truly live, in biblical rest. This is the biggy, because we are going to see how our vertical relationship with God is in…
Read More"The Better Way" Giveaway
One thing my mother used to always tell me is something her grandmother would often say to her: “Start off like you want to end up.” In the most practical sense, that little phrase can be applied to our life in so many ways. You want to end up 10…
Read MoreI Just Soon Choose To Love
When your 20 year old daughter comes to visit and brings in the new year with you, it’s a huge gift from the Lord that this overly elated mother savored every. single. milla-second of! As she left to go back to Franklin, TN, yesterday morning, I called Rip while I…
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