Tag: Obedience
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Discipline and Depth
Lots of people are looking for the ESOTERIC in God, meaning that you want Daniel and John the Revelator encounters. You want the secret things. Let me be clear: THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. As God trusts you, God will show you things. The price is high, though. It costs the crushing, the beating, […]
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Dreams Don’t Have Deadlines: A Kind of Testimony
At the library fumble-writing this chapter 2 of my capstone while also trying to figure out just how GOOD God is. I look back over my life these past few months…God not only took care of me without full time employment, but He also handed me back things I thought were long buried. He is […]
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What That Mouth Do, Part 3
Part 3: You’re Listening for the SOUND Let’s continue on. First thing’s first: Jesus spoke what God said. “The Father Who has sent Me commanded Me what to say, and how to say it.” Whew CHILLLLLLLLLEEEEEE. I’m trying to be all grammatical but this little snippet here is a sniper that landed 3 direct death […]
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Jesus Saves. We Serve.
Thought: Converting someone is grossly different than sharing fruit and relating on similarities between faiths. The ideology of saving someone or converting them – deeply arrogant ideology. FD Muhammad So I was scrolling through my Facebook page per my usual and my favorite Muslim Facebook friend Fariduddin dropped this quote. My Western Christianity flared up […]
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Irregardless, we still sum headbussas… for the LORD.
It always went like this: “Tell Mr. Jackson I said Hello.”“Red, Kisha said hello, Mr. Jackson.” And I’d hear in the background, “Passa.” If you knew how I recoiled from that one word, that one little dig. Listen. I knew he was being funny and fun—tongue-in-cheek, literarily speaking…and also. He was quietly insistent. Like, all […]
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A COVID-19 Rant about God’s Sufficient Grace
I don’t understand why Covid-19 has become a political hill to die on nor do I understand why SOOOOOO many people are so selfish about how they interact with others when it comes to vaccines, masks, shelter in place, quarantining when sick or the like. It chaps my hide in ways I can’t really express—not […]
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Consequences are consequences
“Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.” Proverbs 22:8 So this kid acted an ENTIRE fool one day when escorted into my lunch detention setting. As he ranted and raved, I quietly explained to him that everyone gets ONE WARNING; after that, I’d add on extra days for […]
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Make RIGHT NOW Be “Your Year“
You know what I’ve noticed? Around this time every year, folks start to post about how this year has been tough, but [next year here] is gone be their year! That this year (like the one before it and the one before that) taught them about relationships and family and friends and enemies, and that […]