Shhhhh! Listen
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- Nov, 23, 2014
- Richard
- Today's Musings
How many times have you heard…..God does not talk to me. Or, I can’t hear God. Or, God must have gone somewhere since I am getting no answers. Perhaps, just perhaps this is because our MOUTH is open and our spiritual ears are closed. Perhaps, just perhaps HIS still small voice is there but our […]
Read MoreWho do you believe?
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- Nov, 22, 2014
- Richard
- Today's Musings
In the world today there are many so called preachers, teachers and theologians who are presenting the Word as they see it. They give their impression of what God has said and back it up with verses or parts of verses out of context. How is the normal ordinary person to know if what they […]
Read MoreStart Seeking God
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- Nov, 22, 2014
- Richard
- Today's Musings
This morning in our Word time we were impressed with the idea that if we give God the time to speak to us, HE will. The catch is we have to shut up and listen. We read Ps 91 and just let God talk to us. Then I read this post from Chuck Swindoll and […]
Read MoreHaving Fun
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- Nov, 21, 2014
- Richard
- Today's Musings
As Thanksgiving and Christmas approach I see a serious change in people’s attitude. We went shopping for our food needs for the Thanksgiving holiday and there was an obvious ominous cloud hanging over the heads of the majority of the people we saw also doing shopping. The joy of the season of giving was lost […]
Read MoreYou are no accident.
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- Nov, 19, 2014
- Richard
- Today's Musings
I am your Creator. You were in my care even before you were born (Isaiah 44:2a – CEV). You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by […]
Read MoreJust as the lost don't understand the Gospel, the saved rarely understand grace.
There are few activities more exhausting and less rewarding than Christians attempting to please the people around them by maintaining impossible legalistic demands. What a tragic trap, and thousands are caught in it. When will we ever learn?
Grace has set us free!
That message streamed often through the sermons and personal testimonies of the apostle Paul.
The lost need to hear how they can go from the island of debris, filled with misery and guilt, to the land of peace and forgiveness, flowing with mercy and grace. Those bridges are built when we lovingly and patiently communicate the Gospel. You don't have to have a seminary degree. You don't have to know a lot of the religious vocabulary. In your own authentic, honest, and unguarded manner, share with people what Christ has done for you. Who knows? It may not be long before you will know the joy of leading a lost sinner from the darkness of death's dungeon across the bridge to the liberating hope of new life in Christ. Once they've arrived, release them. Release them into the magnificent freedom that grace provides. Don't smother them with a bunch of rules and regulations that put them on probation and keep them in that holding tank until they "get their lives straightened out."; Making us holy is the Spirit's work. Be faithful to dispense the Gospel to the lost and Grace to the saved. Then leave the results in the Lord's hands.