LIFE IN THE SON
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Paul in Acts 24:16
“Herein I also practice *always* having a conscience void of offense toward God and men”
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Jesus in John 17
20 Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
22 The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one; 23 I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me. 24 Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
25 Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me. 26 I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
“To continue in atheism, I would need to believe that nothing produces everything, non-life produces life, randomness produces fine-tuning, chaos produces information, unconsciousness produces consciousness, and non-reason produces reason. I simply didn’t have that much faith.”
– Lee Strobel writes on Twitter, 12/24/17
“Someone has said that modern preachers have been able to do what the church has not been able to do for 2,000 years — make Christ appear dull.”
– Leonard Ravenhill
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.”
– Jesus in John 15:12-14
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
– George Orwell
“If we are not CHANGED BY GRACE, then we are not SAVED by grace.”
– A. W. Tozer
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“We must not allow other people’s *limited perceptions* to define us.”
– Virginia Satir
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The most beautiful oration I’ve seen yet on forgiving.
In this video, Jesse has a heart of gold, and lays out to a not-yet-a-believer exactly what happens if we’re hurt and stay angry — and then how freedom and the power to overcome happens when we forgive — and why. God sets us free!
When one chooses the path of Truth it often leads to a lonely place. The Truthteller, scorned, and derided as ‘extremist,’ even ‘insane’ must March Forward to the Certain, Clarion call that echos from the heart.
The more decadent the day, the more lonely the walk for Ambassadors of Truth.
However in the end all that will endure is Truth. And those who dare speak it become the legacies of their family lineage, their communities, and yes, even to their Nations.
Do not condescend to the Scoffers, rather ASCEND BOLDLY with your sure words of enduring Truth.
Eternity is kind to Truthtellers, and your Children will be your Truth’s Beneficiary.
– author unknown
“I have spoken these things to you, that MY JOY may remain IN YOU, and THAT YOUR JOY MAY BE MADE FULL!” – Jesus in John 15:11
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“We must not return evil for evil, but we must overcome evil with good.” – Rick Joyner
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When You Say “Oh My God” You’re Using The Name Of The Lord In Vain, Wrongly. Repent Today, & Begin To Use Someone Else’s Name. – Marc Roy
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Let’s all overcome together!!!
Forgive and be FREE!
Life in the Son 
Determine today to be free!
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“Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him. – James 1:12 (KJV)
The question is NOT “Why would a loving God send anyone to hell.” The question is “Why would anyone choose hell over a loving God?”
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Being the best we can be, instead of trying to one-up others.
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“The world says: ‘love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart.’ Jesus says: ‘deny yourself, grab your cross and follow Me.'”
– Francis Chan
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“Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness; the nourishment of mind with his truth; the purifying of imagination by his beauty; the opening of the heart to his love; the surrender of will to his purpose–all this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable.”
– William Temple
Forgiveness is:
taking the knife out of your own back
and not using it
to hurt anyone else
no matter how
they hurt you.
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“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.”
– Robert Muller
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LIFE in the SON — taking up our cross and following Him!
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. – Rom. 8:14
“Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord.”
“There is therefore now *no condemnation* to those who are IN CHRIST Jesus, who don’t WALK according to the flesh, but ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT” – Rom. 8:1
“Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet… (Isaiah 3:16 KJV).
[In modern language: The LORD says, “The women of Zion are haughty, walking along with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, strutting along with swaying hips, with ornaments jingling on their ankles… (NIV).]
The women have lost, in Jerusalem, they’ve lost that character of true femininity. They’ve created a false femininity. They’ve made themselves cheap, and have made themselves the object of carnal desires. Our country, today, is eaten up with the sexual objectification of women.”
“Even in our churches….”
“The strength of women is in their femininity. The strength of women is in their modesty. The strength of women is in their true character and nature as a woman.
The thing that makes them different from men, and the thing that gives them honor and character and decency, these are the things that are true womanhood principles.”
– Chuck Baldwin from God’s Judgement On Israel And America @49:30
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
“We cannot afford to let down our Christian standards just to hold the interest of people who want to go to hell and still belong to a church.”
-A.W. Tozer
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“There is therefore now *no condemnation* to those who are IN CHRIST Jesus, who don’t WALK according to the flesh, but ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT” – Romans 8:1.
PAUL: “Herein I also practice ALWAYS having a *conscience void of offense* toward God and men” (Acts 24:16).
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“Beware of every wind of doctrine!”
– Dick Benjamin,
founder of Abbott Loop Christian Center
Ephesians 4:11-16
He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ; from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
Related:
Kevin Conner on the Believer’s CONDITIONAL Security: “OBEDIENCE IS the very law of SECURITY for all created beings. There can be NO SUCH THING as UNCONDITIONAL security.” — WARNINGS against backsliding SHOW that the security of the believer is conditional upon obedience and faith • What God has provided in Christ man must receive and apply • Divine SOVEREIGNTY *and* human RESPONSIBILITY meet together in the great redemptive plan • Christ is “the author of eternal salvation unto all them that OBEY him”(Hebrews 5:9) • Upon HEARING and FOLLOWING the Shepherd they receive eternal life and will never perish • AS HE OBEYS the Word of the Lord his SECURITY against backsliding and apostacy is FULLY GUARANTEED
Women’s Ministry: A Critique of Jack Hayford’s “A Woman’s Place in Christ” by Jeff Fenske — How deception passes as truth
Kevin Conner: Doctrine Determines the Health of the Church
(photo) Abbott Loop CC Cross: We MUST Die In Order To Live!!!
Update: I’ve been told that this cross did not survive the March-2012 roof collapse.
It had been moved from front and center to the west wall, which took the biggest hit.
Someone should resurrect this theme.
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Jesus:
Most certainly I tell you,
unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies,
it remains by itself alone.
But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
12/2/09
On Abbott Loop Community Church’s west wall
It used to be front and center
“What happened?”
ALCC’s cross and wheat logo
The idea comes from what Jesus said in John 12:
24 Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. 25 He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life. 26 If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
Paul taught (and Frank taught in Bible school) Jesus is The Pattern in Php 2:
1 If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, 2 make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; 3 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; 4 each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others. 5 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross. 9 Therefore God also highly exalted him….