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[9 Aug 2009 | No Comment | ]

When we share the gospel we must look at Jesus himself.  With the woman at the well we see some things that He did.  One of the main things He did was let her talk.  He let her say what was on her mind and then He responded to her.  We have a tendancy to just wanna preach to someone but we must also shut up some times and listen.  That’s what Jesus did.  He let the person He was talking to speak as well.  Sometimes I think in our …

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[4 Aug 2009 | No Comment | ]

Alot of my friends don’t know this but I have to praise God.  This past weekend as I was laying in a hospital bed they gave me the news that they had found something in my left lung.  They said it could be one of three things, pnemonia, a clot, or the big C.   I began to pray.  Lord if it’s your will to bring me home I’m ready.  I didn’t pray for healing, I prayed that His will be done.  If it was my time and that’s how I was to go so …

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[14 Jul 2009 | No Comment | ]

The Lord blessed our family with a vacation to the beach last week.  As I was standing in the ocean feeling the pull of the tide I couldn’t help but think that that’s the way sin in our life works.  There is a constant tug and pull to fall back in our sin and into the world.  As we grow in Christ there is always something that will happen that will try to pull us out to sea.  We have to fight it with the power that’s within us that …

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[3 Jul 2009 | No Comment | ]

What is happiness to you?  Is it getting new things or maybe it’s about how much money you make?  Maybe it’s about how many friends you have to hang out with or maybe about your latest thrill.  If your happiness is not based on God then are you truly happy or are you just looking for the next thing to control your life?  Contentment can only be found in Jesus Christ.  If you live for the ways of this world you will forever be searching and will forever be lost.  …

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[24 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]

One thing that I’ve come to be aware of are people who are out to make a buck off those in the ministry, not to mention those in the ministry lookin to make a buck off you.  My brother John Galloway has had a vision in his heart to help those in the ministry who would like a presence on the web but don’t have the funds to make it happen.  Check out http://www.inthestreet.org  My brother John is offering free sites to ministries that are looking to get on the …

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[12 May 2009 | No Comment | ]

I have this place in my yard where 8 times out of 10 when I weed eat around it there’s a snake in the brush.  I know this going in so I look and plan for it so I won’t be caught off guard.  We’ll imagine my surprise while concentrating and looking for a snake that might or might not be in the brush I start to feel a few stings on my back and wouldn’t you know it there was an underground yellowjackets nest and they weren’t too happy.:)  You …

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[9 May 2009 | No Comment | ]

Oh how easy it is to get sucked back into the ways of this world.  It starts out by missing a Sunday at church, then that’s followed by another.  Then pretty soon you’re not going at all.  Your prayer time starts to fade.  Your daily bible study becomes twice a week, then once a week, till finally not at all.  Then you start watching things and reading things that turn your attention back to the ways of the world.  People who were warriors for Christ with you try to contact you but you …

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[27 Apr 2009 | No Comment | ]

If you don’t mind I’d like to share some names with you…..
Tim, Jimmy, Josh, Joe, Nathan, Donnie, Irv, Cordell, Cheyanne, Raymond plus a family of three.  A father, mother and 3 sons.
These are people that God moved on in the shelter and as the shelter comes to a close this week until this winter I see the move of God on these people as I look back.  You see they all are now out of the shelter, holding jobs and living in their own homes now.  Some would be dead by now …

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[4 Apr 2009 | No Comment | ]

It amazes me at the churches who say “We need to send people out” but when it comes time to do it, no one goes.  I’ve seen churches profess to want to be apart of spreading the gospel and are fired up at first but after 60 days they no longer want to go out and a size of 20 dwindles down to one or two.  I’ve seen churches who run 300 people on a Sunday morning have 2 show up for an evangelism class on spreading the good news of …

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[16 Mar 2009 | No Comment | ]

Before we can tell people of the glorious good news which is the Gospel, we must first know what it is ourselves.  I see and hear so many people talking about the spreading the gospel is telling others what God is doing in their lives and how their lives have changed.  Yes, we must tell people this but this my friends is not the gospel.  So what is the gospel?  Paul tells us in 1st Corinthians 15:3-4
3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ …