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November 12, 2006

Exercise Alone Can't Cure a Heart Defect: The Ninth and Tenth Commandments

The Lord is waiting for permission to replace your heart with a pure one. This is because right thinking and useful living cannot overcome selfishness and greed on their own. We are all born with sick hearts, and no amount of exercise will save us. Spiritually healthy living is important, but without a spiritual heart transplant, we're still doomed.

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October 29, 2006

How Praising the Lord Frees Your Spirit

When you take credit for the good you do, you are stealing from the Lord and buying into the first and biggest of all lies: that you—and not the Lord—are the source of all life. Doing this leads to fear, anguish and suffering, because you also end up stealing the Lord's responsibility for all future good, which you cannot possibly hope to manage without disaster. If instead you learn to praise the Lord for every good thing, then you will find you are able to enjoy all the Lord's loving gifts with a new sense of freedom.

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October 22, 2006

Strengthen Your Relationships with Forgiveness

Beyond just warning us against physically adulterous relationships, the Lord commands us not to adulterate the truths from His Word. Put simply, He wants us to stop hurting each other with the truth. If you think about it, you will realize that most of the conflicts in your marriage, and in your other relationships, come from at least one person unforgivingly pursuing the need to be right. Don't put being right ahead of being merciful. Truth is a sword given to us for the sake of liberating ourselves and those around us; when we use it instead to attack people, we are whoring the Lord's Word. Repent of spiritual adultery and pray to the Lord for a forgiving heart.

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October 15, 2006

Love Your Neighbor by Shunning Evil in Your Heart

Murder is more than the malicious killing of a person's physical body. In the sermon on the mount, the Lord teaches us that there are degrees of murder. On the natural level, we first become angry, then contemptuous, and finally hateful, before we get around to physically murdering a person. Speaking spiritually, we also go through these stages with regard to a person's soul. At the deepest level, the same can be said for our relationship with the Lord. So that we do not walk down the path of spiritual murder, the Lord has given us not only an explanation of its degrees, but also a solution. We are to examine ourselves, looking to our motivations, and then ask the Lord to take the early seeds of murder from our hearts. Then we are to go out and do good in the world, for His sake and for the sake of our brothers and sisters.

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October 8, 2006

Thank the Lord and Your Neighbors, and Your Life Will Become Better

Honor your father and your mother. We are born helpless. The people who then raise us provide us with all we need, in ways we cannot at the time comprehend, and without any sort of repayment. In our spiritual lives, the Lord and His Church do the same. The fourth Commandment is a reminder to honor our natural and spiritual parents with gratitude and love. Do this, and you will be happier.

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September 24, 2006

How to Call Upon the Name of the Lord

The Lord wants you to pray. Why? Because in life there are evil things that get a grip on your heart and mind that you are powerless to break free from. The second of ten Rise Above It sermons on the Ten Commandments.

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September 20, 2006

Message to Charlotte and Raleigh

(This started as a message written for the upcoming North Carolina New Church Newsletter, but it can apply to anyone, really.) "Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God, Jehovah is one! You shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart,...

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September 18, 2006

Special Delivery: Rise Above It Sermon Feed

We're going to try something new, here at TheoBlog.com: a "special delivery" series of podcasts. If this works out, maybe we'll do another one down the road, some time. This first one will be focused on the multi-congregational Rise Above...

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September 1, 2006

Rise Above It

As the summer has been winding down, I’ve been getting more and more excited about the upcoming Rise Above It campaign. As you know by now, we will be kicking it off September 17th and will continue with our focus on the Ten Commandments through November 19th. This is an opportunity to come together as a congregation and reach out to our community. It has three core elements: 1) Sunday worship centered on a theme; 2) discussion group participation and 3) daily reading.

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