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Consider This: Which Voice Has Your Attention?

  You can listen to the voices around you that say, “Compare. Compete. Try harder. Do more. Have more. Look like this. Be like that. Show off and brag about how great your life is, or at least pretend your life is better than it is so that others will be impressed”. You can do that, but it will bury you! You cannot win that game! Someone will always have more, look better, be smarter, or have been to more places. It is difficult to enjoy your life when you are focused on comparing and competing.   You can listen to the voice of discouragement and negativity. It is not hard to find things to complain about. It is easy to point out the failings of the person who tried. Unfortunately, the voices of discouragement seem to carry more weight and are louder than any other voice. You can receive a thousand compliments, but you will remember the criticism. There is always something to be thankful for, but most people do not bother to look for it. It is easier to be neg...
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Avoiding the Detours: Sin, Pride, and Finding Our Way Home (Luke 18)

 Three big themes that are worth some thought.   https://youtu.be/6P2pE6WSUJE  
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Hearing Voices (Luke 19:1-10)

 The loudest voices are not always the most important ones.  https://youtu.be/uXQVHbzz0sQ  
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Resurrection Life (John 20)

 How focusing on the next life helps us live this one better   https://youtu.be/cydHc8alzOw  
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Consider This: What Generosity Says about Us

  When my granddaughter was young, she would hold out some of her snack, and I would say, “Oooh… is that for grandpa??”  Then she would take it back, eat it and laugh!  It was the funniest thing to her.  Lately, that has changed.  At a recent Bruins game, she sat down beside me and said, “Grandpa, this popcorn is for both of us”, and happily shared it with me.  Generosity is a sign of growing up. Occasionally, God’s people were mature enough to really understand the value of giving. In the earliest days, when God’s people first started worshipping him, they gave so much that Moses had to tell them to stop bringing their gifts (Exodus 36:1-7).  Later, when King Hezekiah reopened the temple, they gave so many gifts that they were piled in heaps around the courtyard (2 Chronicles 31).  Generosity was one of the most prominent qualities of the New Testament church ...
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Shaped by the Word (Isaiah 55)

 If we see the word of God as just a bunch of rules and things for us to do, we see it incorrectly. The word has power to change and shape us in ways that we do not see or understand https://youtu.be/_ykQut1RztI  
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Consider This: The Case for Kindness

  In 2021, after years of hard work and dedication, Polish javelin thrower Marie Andrejczyk realized a dream by winning a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics. While this accomplishment was worth celebrating and remembering, what she did next was even more impressive.   Andrejczyk heard about an 8-month-old boy who needed heart surgery, so she decided to auction off her medal and donate the money to the family. A Polish convenience store named Zabka purchased the medal for $125 000. The family of the little boy received the money, and the surgery was completed. However, the story does not end there.   After winning the auction, Zabka contacted Andrejczyk and informed her that they were returning the medal to her. In the end, the store received some good publicity, a baby received the medical care he needed, and Maria was able to keep the medal she had worked so hard to win. That is what happens when we lead with kindness.   Unfortunately, kindness is not a word t...
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