We get to give. Not we give to get. Giving is more than just money. Generosity plus stewardship equals blessings. God won't give to the wasteful. God invented giving to break the hold of selfishness. We were born selfish. We were born again generous.
Robert Morris
Sunday, February 24, 2019
Monday, February 18, 2019
The Trouble with Trouble
Temptation doesn't just knock
on the door, but leans on the doorbell. You don't have to go looking for
trouble. Trouble will find you.
Mike Haman
Hold on tight
If you can faithfully steward
another man's dream, God will give you a dream of your own. Hold to stuff loosely, but
cling to Jesus tightly.
Mike Haman
Borrowed Dreams
When God gives you a dream, it
doesn't belong to you. It belongs to God. Everything that we have is
borrowed. All is from Him, and it is to be used to serve Him.
Mike Haman
Every test is open book. I
don't know what your current test is. Get away from Facebook and put your
face in the book.
Basic
Instructions
Before
Leaving
Earth
Mike Haman
The purpose of tests
A good teacher will never test
you on something that has not been covered.
The answer to your test is
already in you. Testing is God's method of promotion. Tests will get
you from the 1st grade to the 2nd.
Mike Haman
Drama
You can't avoid drama, but
don't invite it. People who like drama are emotionally expensive.
Mike Haman
Integrity
Reputation is who I am in front of everybody. Integrity is who I am before God. Integrity takes years to build but moments to destroy.
Mike Haman
Mike Haman
My Choice to Bless
You are invoking a blessing on
yourself when you give. The key to being blessed is how much you give.
Thinking about others who have less than you cheers you up. Thinking only about yourself brings discouragement, and is a bondage.
Receiving puts me at the mercy of someone else giving to me and isn’t a universally promised experience—unless we are givers. Me giving is my problem.
Jimmy Evans
Sunday, February 17, 2019
How to change my thoughts
You change the way that you think by changing the way you
speak.
Buddy Owens
Change
Change doesn’t begin with your behavior, but change starts
with the way you think.
Rick Warren
A healthy you!
If you try to build intimacy
with another person before you have gotten whole on your own, all your
relationships become an attempt to complete yourself.
You are setting yourself up for
heartache. Get yourself healthy before you get yourself married.
If you want a better
relationship, it begins with you. Your relationships can only be as healthy as
you are.
Les Parrott
Sunday, February 10, 2019
Pursuit
Pursue her with affection. Pursue him with affirmation. You can't shame a man into action.
Chris Hodges
Chris Hodges
Divorce
Divorcing your spouse because the love is gone is like getting rid of your car because the gas is gone.
Chris Hodges
Chris Hodges
Promises
Promises aren't based upon a feeling in the moment. We make a promise for when the feelings change.
Chris Hodges
Chris Hodges
Marriage
Things that destroy many marriages aren't bad things. They are good things that are not prioritized correctly.
Chris Hodges
Chris Hodges
Friday, February 8, 2019
The Application of God's Word
The distance between the truth you know and the truth you live equals the pain you experience.
Chris Hodges
Chris Hodges
Intimacy
If you try to build intimacy with
another person before you have done the work of getting whole on your own, all
your relationships become an attempt to complete yourself.
Dr. Les Parrott
Thursday, February 7, 2019
Inward transformation
Jesus wants inward transformation which is manifested for God's external glorification.
Darryl Craft
Darryl Craft
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
When Success is Not Success
Your
life is not about here, but it's about beyond here.
Jeremy Foster
Monday, February 4, 2019
How to bear fruit
1. Roots - which are grounded in a personal relationship with Jesus. (Colossians 2:7)
2. Rain - which symbolizes God's presence when we worship.
3. Relationships- with other believers in a small group (Colossians 1:3-6).
Dino Rizzo
2. Rain - which symbolizes God's presence when we worship.
3. Relationships- with other believers in a small group (Colossians 1:3-6).
Dino Rizzo
God has a standard.
Jesus died for the violation of it. The Bible illuminates our life in
it. The Holy Spirit empowers us to live in it.
Chris Hodges
Expectations
Obedience will put you in position for God's
favor. The favor on you is not just for you, but for others.
Mike Haman
Desperate?
Do you want to see the supernatural in your
life? Then, get out there in an area that you're desperate. If you’re
not desperate, you don't need God.
Mike Haman
Afraid to Fail?
What if I try and fail? We all fail.
Then, why are we afraid of it. I'd rather try and fail rather than fail
because I never tried.
If we hold on to comfort, we will never embrace
God's best. 20 years from now we will regret the opportunities to risk
rather than the risks we took, but failed.
Let's not pray for safety, but for opportunities. If we knew how much God loved us, we would fear less but risk more.
Mike Haman
Embrace Risk
God is saying to us to give me a chance.
Our emblem is a cross which is a dangerous place. We must not retreat to
areas of comfort. If we embrace God, we
also embrace risks.
Mike Haman
The Power of Darkness
The Bible has authority to speak to every issue
the culture brings up. Darkness is not a force, but occupies the space
that light retreats from.
Mike Haman
God's Favor
If you can do it all by yourself, your dream is
too small. When you step into the impossible, that when God shows up. For
that's where God gets glory. God loves to stack the odds against Himself, so that He can get the glory.
Mike Haman
Sunday, February 3, 2019
Is your neighbor God?
You make your neighbor God
when you buy something when your neighbor does. Don't let someone
spend your money. Let God tell you how to spend His money.
Robert Morris
How God wired us
God wired us to hope. God wired us to wait for things, so that when we get things
it fills us with joy. Depression is a symptom of losing hope. God provides supernaturally
when we decide to do things His ways.
Robert Morris
Budget is not a Bad Word
If you're not living on a
budget, you are killing yourself. We plan to fail if we fail to
plan. If you don't have a goal, you'll probably reach it. A budget helps you to make
financial decisions without the emotions. A budget is like a map. If
you're financially lost, you're not using your map.
Robert Morris
Is your God Money?
We honor our parents because
from them is where we learn about God and money. You can't serve God and be enslaved to money. If you honor money
over God,you are training your children to despise God.
Robert Morris
God's 90 My 100
Believe that God can do more
in six days than we can do in seven days. Tithing is believing that God
can do more with 90% than we can do with 100%.
Robert Morris
Higher Heights
We aren't satisfied with where we are. Give us a year of your life. Take you next step.
Chris Hodges
Chris Hodges
1 Peter 1:17(ESV)
Matthew 10:32-33 (ESV)
32 So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, 33 but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.
Water baptism is a public expression of a private decision.
The Great Comission.
We are on a co-mission together. We don't exist for ourselves, but for others. We do it for lost people.
Chris Hodges
Chris Hodges
Mark 16:15 (ESV)
15 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.Acts 1:8 (ESV)
8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”Hebrews 13:16 (ESV)
16 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.Delight not Duty
John 14:15 (ESV)
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
We've got to fall in love with Jesus. If you focus on loving Jesus, you will obey Him. We serve God out of delight not duty.
Chris Hodges
Friday, February 1, 2019
Idolatry
Idolatry is anything
we allow to sit on the throne of our hearts other than God. We are a
slave to whatever is on the throne of our hearts.
Chris Hodges
The Full Life
If you haven't given your life to God fully, then you haven't given your life to God.
Chris Hodges
Chris Hodges
A stronghold
A stronghold is anything that exalts itself in our minds, pretending to be bigger than our God.
Chris Hodges
Chris Hodges
The Source of Misery
Pride has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
God's Purpose in my Pain
Your pain can serve a purpose if you can see the purpose in your pain (Romans 5:2-4).
Chris Hodges
Chris Hodges
We get to give
We make a living by what what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Truth sets us free
Without truth, we are corrupt.
Without grace, we are condemned.
Without truth, we are worldly.
Without grace, we become judgmental.
Truth without grace is mean.
Grace without truth is meaningless.
Grace invites us to be free.
Truth sets us free.
Chris Hodges
John 8:32 (NKJV)
32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
Jesus Christ
Relational Bridges
We are living to build relational bridges to cross to tell others about Jesus.
Darryl Craft
Darryl Craft
God's love
God loves you right where you are. Nothing you do disqualifies you from God's love.
Mark Pettis
Mark Pettis
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