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Hope for the Hopeless: Comforted
Yesterday we talked about being supremely blessed, blissful if you will, if you just so happened to be one of the billions of people who are poor in spirit. While knowing that you have an abundance of blessings if you are the under-dog, what you are going through at this very moment may need a [...]
Hope for the Hopeless: Blessed
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” – Matthew 5:3 Yesterday we started going over the Beatitudes, beginning with getting away and sitting at the feet of Jesus. I got to thinking last night and can you imagine what it must have been like to be the Son of [...]
Hope for the Hopeless: Getting Away
Haiti and Venezuela are still laying in the aftermath of the earthquakes, with planes circling for 3-4 hours before landing and only able to land if they have enough fuel to get back home (there is no time for refueling in Haiti), 4 out of 5 people living in poverty BEFORE the disaster struck, and [...]
Hope for the Hopeless – Haiti
With the recent episodes in Haiti, and now the breaking news of the 5.7 earthquake that just hit Venezuela, I feel like it is the right time to take a look a the Beatitudes. Yep, the Sermon on the Mount – straight from Matthew 5. First off, I would like to offer my sincerest soul-cry [...]
Lessons I’ve Learned
This is the intro post for a three-part series which I will write over the next month. As you may realize, I am the only man (for now anyway) that is posting on Rising Upward, for which I am extremely privileged to serve along side of these amazing women. With that being said… The three [...]
Don’t Pray Part II: How to be the answer
Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my [...]
Don’t Pray!
Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these… ~ [...]
Agree + Disagree = NOT Agree
Do two or more walk together unless they have agreed to do so? – Amos 3:3 “Let’s just agree to disagree,” my wife says as we pull the car into the pediatrician’s office. By this point in the…umm, intense fellowship (?), yea, that’s it – by this time in the intense fellowship we are both [...]