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Life Lessons

“Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls.” Matthew 11:29 Learn – Do you have a degree in Jesus’ teaching?  That’s not the same as a theological education.  What’s the difference?  The Greek verb manthano implies “an intellectual…
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Freedom on Purpose

“Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls.” Matthew 11:29 Yoke – We think that it is paradoxical that God’s view of freedom is always in the context of being bound to Him.  The image of the yoke…
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Falling Down

“These things I have spoken to you that you may be kept from stumbling” John 16:1 Stumbling – But we did stumble, didn’t we?  That’s the story of our lives.  We are no different than those men and women who heard these words in person.  They listened but did not understand.  Jesus poured out a…
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The Secret Of Community

“No longer do I call you slaves; for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends,” John 15:15 Friend – “What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sin and grief to bear”.  That single verse from the old hymn is frighteningly powerful.  Do we really…
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A Mental Mistake

“Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:3 Theirs – Yesterday we discovered that Hebrew has no direct equivalent for our Greek-based idea of possession.  In Hebrew thinking, we are tenants in the house the Lord built.  We are stewards, servants and caretakers.  Never owners. If this is…
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