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The Power of Certainty
Luke (1-2)
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Why Am I Here?
“I know I came in here for a reason…”
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Trust and Temptation
In preparing for this message I was amazed at how tightly trust and temptation are tied together. And then I was astounded to see that God has a purpose in temptations that is beyond anything I’d ever considered. And here is the full list of diagnostic questions we saw in the Lord’s Prayer of the…
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Words That Burn
Sometimes keeping quiet just isn’t an option.
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Praying the Lord’s Prayer Proactively
I was working on a book about spiritual development, looking for ways to be more proactive in diagnosing where I need the most improvement. And I noticed something in the Lord’s Prayer. If I break that prayer into phrases, each one points me to an important question to ask myself. Over the past few weeks,…
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Becoming Blessed
Blessed is an important word–and it’s important to know exactly what it is God blesses. #2MinuteJumpstart
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Heavy-Duty Food for Thought
A New Kind of Prosperity Gospel “In 2017, Forbes reported that one in four millennials would quit their jobs to become famous. Thirty percent would rather become famous than a doctor or lawyer. One in 10 would choose fame over a college degree. If you ask most middle schoolers what they want to be, their…
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God’s Smoothie Maker
I broke the two-minute barrier pretty hard, but I liked this clip from Sunday on God’s Smoothie Maker too much not to make it a *Three*-Minute Jumpstart.
For years, I’ve produced brief devotional videos called Jumpstarts that I published in various outlets. (You can find them here, as well as the odd podcast.) The root of those videos was daily Bible journals I’ve been doing for decades.
I recently decided to take a hiatus from the videos, and instead publish excerpts from those journals here.
As you’ll soon see, they tend to be brief, normally consisting of just one main idea. They may also be a little rough. I’m not going to do much editing. You’ll get them just the way they came out of my brain, years, days, or months ago.
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