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Tune Into the Heart of God
Mark 9:14-29 v.14And when He came to the disciples, He saw a great multitude around them, and scribes [Torah teachers] disputing with them. While Jesus, Peter, James, and John were away, a crowd gathered around the other nine disciples. The scribes … Continue reading
Daily Commitment is Important
It’s November! For most people it means getting out the Christmas decorations, planning road trips, and stuffing turkeys. For me it means I have to write. A LOT! November is the National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. It’s a crazy … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Life Application
Tagged Challenge, Consequences, daily, ESV, excuses, Fasting, Galatians, Galatians 5, Hebrews, Hebrews 4, NaNoWriMo, Psalm, Psalm 119, Ravi Zacharias, Romans, Romans 15, routine, sacrifice, sin, temptation, truth, Writing, Zacharias
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Not Good Enough to Talk to God
Have you ever felt like you couldn’t pray or help someone out spiritually because you’re not living as spiritually as you think you should? I recently overheard a conversation where one person confessed that he doesn’t pray anymore because He … Continue reading
Posted in Dealing with Sin, Life Application
Tagged Casting Crowns, Christian, Ephesians, Ephesians 1, ETM, Fasting, holy, humble, Isaiah, Isaiah 64, Lyrics, obedience, pray, pride, Proverbs, Proverbs 29, righteous, righteousness, Romans, Romans 3, sin, sinner, temptation
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The Silliness of Hiding from God
A few months ago, I started something new in my family: budgeting. I know, the dreaded “B” word, one that I tried for so long to avoid. Assigning every dollar a job and keeping track of every dollar spent has been … Continue reading
Posted in Life Application
Tagged Adam, Christian, fellowship, Genesis, Genesis 3, hypocrisy, love, Matthew, Matthew 23, Matthew 9, mercy, money, pharisees, repent, repentance, righteous, shame, sin, sinner
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Is Christianity a blind faith?
Many non-Christians love to point out how Christianity is nothing but a “blind faith”. They say that because God cannot be seen, heard, or touched, we cannot ever know for sure that He exists. Since there is a lack of physical evidence of … Continue reading
Posted in Life Application, Personal, Who is God?
Tagged 1 john, 1 John 2, 2 Corinthians, 2 corinthians 5, angels, Blind Faith, Christian, Ephesians, Ephesians 2, faith, God, heaven, porn, pornography, temptation, temptations, the Holy Spirit, truth
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My Apology to you, lessons from Jonah
Over the past several months God has put a lot of messages on my heart to write about and share on ETM. But sadly, I have been too busy or distracted to write them. I mean, it’s not really a big … Continue reading
Posted in Dealing with Sin, Life Application, Personal, Putting God First
Tagged Calvary Chapel of Oxnard, Church, conviction, edification, ESV, ETM, excuses, God, Jon Zenor, Jonah, Jonah 1, Lance Ralston, obedience, podcast, sin
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Would we do more, if following Jesus wasn’t so easy?
This morning while reading the Bible I came across the story of Naaman, a commander of an army who also had leprosy. He does what any of us would probably do when facing such a severe disease, he turned to … Continue reading
The Discipline of Discipleship
Last night at church we had a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) demonstration followed by some teaching. It was a great time. I got some great notes from the speakers. The first speaker was Carlos Machado who is friends with Chuck … Continue reading
Posted in Life Application, Putting God First
Tagged 1 Corinthians, 1 Corinthians 9, Carlos Machado, Chuck Norris, disciple, discipline, Ephesians, Ephesians 2, faith, Hebrews, Hebrews 12, holy, Leonard Ravenhill, Martial Arts, Matthew, Matthew 16, military, MMA, olympics, pray, prayer, race, Romans, Romans 10, Romans 8, self-discipline, Victor Marx
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Fanning the Flames of Passion for God
The previous article in this series on Neglecting our Mission Field talked about how we are ignoring our mission field and focusing on entertaining ourselves and living a life of comfort due to the fact that we do not have … Continue reading
Posted in Life Application, Putting God First
Tagged 1 Thessalonians, 1 Thessalonians 5, bible, Church, Ephesians, Ephesians 3, fellowship, fire, Galatians, Galatians 5, holy, John, John 15, love, selfish, sermons, sin
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When we do not love God
In the past few articles I talked about how we have neglected our primary mission field because we have turned our mission field into a comfortable home that we do not want to risk loosing or downgrading. And I mentioned that instead … Continue reading
Posted in Life Application, Putting God First
Tagged accountability, American Idol, Christian, Ephesians, Ephesians 3, eternity, Family Guy, love, Missions, selfish, sick, sin, tithe, tv, volunteer
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