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What My Mother Taught Me

loah — Sun, 13 May 2012 22:00:14 +0000

Our mothers taught us all some important things… Logic – if you fall off that swing and break you neck you can’t go to the store with me. Thinking Ahead – if you don’t pass that spelling test Tuesday you will never get a good job. How to become an adult – if you don’t eat you veggies you’ll never grow up. But our mothers also taught us other very important things. We should be thankful for what we learned from them.

Intercessory Prayer

loah — Sun, 06 May 2012 16:37:01 +0000

What is intercessory prayer? Is it just the name associated with the time we meet on Wednesday night for prayer? This week we take a look at a story from the Bible that illustrates the power of praying for someone else.

Little Things

loah — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:17:18 +0000

After Jesus had performed the miracle of feeding thousands of people he instructed the disciples to collect the food the remained uneaten. He told told them it was important none of the leftover scraps were wasted or lost. Jesus said he came to seek and to save the lost. We must remember that sometimes the little things are important – if not to us then they are to God. We must be faithful in the little things to prove our fiathfulness in the big.

It’s (Not) My Money

loah — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:11:08 +0000

We often think we own what we have. We work hard for it so it belongs to me. God reminds us that we are not owners, we are managers. As managers or stewards of God’s wealth and resources we have a great responsibility to do things God’s way – not our own.

Pastor Leroy Henson – Make Your Mark

loah — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:02:04 +0000

Usually when we say God gave someone a new heart we are speaking of a spiritual change that took place in a life. Brother Leroy was given a new heart in more ways than one. While serving as a pastor of a church he suffered a heart attack. The damage to his heart ultimately was so severe he would not survive without a heart transplant. God, who supplied all our needs, blessed Brother Leroy with a new heart so that doctors could transplant it into his body. In this podcast Brother Leroy shares his testimony and encourages us to leave our mark for Christ wherever we go.

Shake Off The Snakes

loah — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:56:06 +0000

Just when evrything the can go wrong has gone wrong… the snakes come crawling out of the fire. What do we do when we are attacked by Satan? Shake Off The Snake!

not a fan – 6 is Jesus enough?

loah — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:04:25 +0000

In John Chapter 6 we find Jesus at the height of his ministry. Thousands gathered to hear him teach and to watch the miracles he performed. Jesus took a boy’s lunch and fed the multitudes. The next day the people looked again to Jesus for what he could give them – free food, a good show, miracles, healings… Instead of performing another miracle, instead of multiplying a sack lunch to feed everyone, Jesus takes everything off the table except himself. In John 6:66 we lean the many turned and left – the followed Jesus no more. When the only thing on the menu was Jesus they weren’t interested anymore. Is Jesus enough for you?

not a fan – 5 more than rules

loah — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:19:23 +0000

Fans are very much caught up in an outward appearance. They think that somehow God is going to be impressed with their religious rule keeping or rituals or their traditions. There’s nothing wrong with those things, in and of themselves. The problem comes when we do those things and it’s not out of a pursuit of Jesus or a relationship with Him, but as a way to prove or measure our own spirituality.

not a fan – 4 the comfortable cross

loah — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:37:11 +0000

The idea of the cross bing an insturment of pain and suffering, of torture and deth, of shame and weakness has been replaced by the cross of decoration and fashion. We print crosses on our clothing, we wear gold ones around our neck, we hang beautiful works of art on our walls – but we forget the true meaning of the cross. Jesus said, “take up your cross daily and follow me.” To the first century Christ Follower the cross was not a beautiful thing. It wasn’t used as artwork or decoration. The true idea of the cross was almost unthinkable. Jesus wasn’t asking us to take up some comfortable, padded, easy to carry cross. He is asking us to die to ourselves, to be obedient even to the point to physical death. It is time for us to put down our comfortable crosses and become followers of Jesus.

not a fan – 3 choosing intimacy

loah — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:51:46 +0000

A mother knows her child in a way that is unlike anyone else. Not only does the mother know the child, the child knows the mother. This is a true picture of intimacy, of completely knowing and being completely known. This is how God desires to know us. Fans know about God, followers know God – and God knows them.