So, all we have to do is think about the cross and we should run to forgive our spouse.  All we have to do is think about the cross and we should, if we have violated our spouse, say those phrases that are so dynamic indeed: “I’m sorry.  I was wrong.  Will you forgive me?  [...]

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Romans 12:19.  “Do not take revenge my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath.  For it is written, it is mine to avenge, I will repay says the Lord.”  Now when I take revenge, I do it myself.  But when I do the avenge thing and allow God room, God will take it up.  God [...]

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Well, according to Ed Young, the presidential election is less than one year away and the candidates are already hot on the campaign trail.  I love to sit back and watch the different strategies that the contenders use as they try to win the number one office in the nation.  Some use the pit bull [...]

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Yes, we are commanded to corporately worship God, but true life change takes place in a small group.  We want to grow smaller while we grow larger.  “Well, Ed, they might ask me a question about the Bible.  I don’t know that much about the Bible.  They might put me on the spot.”  No, they [...]

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Number two.  Secure some symbols of significance that point you to express your love to God.  I brought some from my office which do that in my life.  These are replicas of the nails that were used to fasten Christ’s body to the cross.  They were given to me by one of our founding members [...]

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Front page of the Egyptian times…the man murdered and a picture of Moses.  They’re going after him now.  The Hebrews turn their back on him.  The Egyptians want to kill him.  He’s fearful; he’s afraid and he turns and he does the Carl Lewis thing…he’s running.  The bible says he goes to a place called [...]

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He gets scared.  Look down in verse 14.  Verse 14 says, “then Moses was afraid and thought, what I did must have become known.” Here’s a situation, Moses kills the Egyptian.  He buries him in a shallow grave and he walks out the next day thinking, “hey, I’m above all.  No one can get me,” [...]

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She thought I looked the part, which I sort of did, but she made a mistake.  Just because I looked a certain way didn’t mean I could actually do all the events.  At the end of the session, I was carrying around the skateboard in this Africa hot weather.  We never saw Tony Hawk or [...]

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That’s why he recruited me. I was a calming force.  I could pray before every game, and lead the team in prayer.  It was awesome.  In high school I was the star player. I scored pretty much when I wanted to. But Florida State was a different world.  The two guys that played in front [...]

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Some people who call themselves Christians produce plastic fruit.  Fake fruit.  You know those hypocrites; they will say one thing and do another.  You look at them and think they must be producing real fruit, but when you look at the fruit you find out that it is plastic. Others that go by the label [...]

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