Family and Friends – The Father 4.0

Family and Friends – The Father 4.0

As we look more deeply into your relationship with Father God, I feel it is important to ask yourself this question: “What did The Father create (contextually) for me?” You, like everyone else has something you can do better than any other person. A person with talent is said to “have an apparently native ability for a specific pursuit,” and the definition connotes that this ability is, or has the potential to be, cultivated by the one possessing it, per…

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Family and Friends – The Father 3.0

Family and Friends – The Father 3.0

While we talked a little about this last year, I thought it might be good to drill down a bit on why we have this longing for spiritual fulfillment – that desire to know things beyond ourselves. That can only come when we can answer real questions about our origins – the real origin. So, what does it mean to be made “in The Father’s image”? The Hebrew word used for image in this verse from Genesis is tselem. Its…

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year

As I enter into 2017 I find myself more introspective than normal, perhaps. I am reminded that this is the year I will turn 70, my oldest child is rapidly approaching 50 and my 6th grandchild will be born in about 7 weeks. Whew, where has life gone? While I would like to think I am the same person I was decades ago, too many body parts remind me this is anything but true. I’ve come to accept that this…

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Watchnight Services

Watchnight Services

During my early teenage years our family attended an Independent Baptist Church. It was very fundamental in its approach and “straight lace” with rules like: No dancing, movies, “mixed bathing” in swimming pools, or dating without another couple. I’m not sure if it was just part of the era I lived in or a tradition of this type of church, but we always had “Watch Night Services” on New Year’s Eve. We gathered for three to four hours of sermons,…

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Family and Friends – The Father 2.0

Family and Friends – The Father 2.0

With the Father’s image as a foundation, (Colossians 1:15, 2Corinthians 4:4) Genesis 1:27 illustrates how the process works, explaining that “God created man in His own image, in the image of God, He created him; male and female He created them.” Now, let’s rephrase this verse in the context of what you have previously learned. We conclude, “The Divine Rulers and Judges fashioned an individual. They did this based on what was consistent with each Deity, regardless of whether they…

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Family and Friends – The Father 1.0

Family and Friends – The Father 1.0

As we prepare for the new year, I want to start with your relationship with Father God. With just Him individually. His role, your relationship, etc. I want you to see him as He is and befriend him in the way He wants you to so you can be like Enoch and Noah – Halak (walk) with Him. The Greek word for father patēr, does not simply translate into someone who, by his own will or passion, causes a child…

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