Jesus Rant

A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. That's why it's so important for your eye to be singular! What you see is what you be. And you see clearly when the light of the world (the light of God's love) shines on you, and in you, and through you!

We are God's love letter to the world. Everything He wants to say, He says in us, and through us, and as us!

When we look into the mirror, we see Jesus. Because Jesus lives in us. But you have to look with an unveiled face. And that means the old is passed away.

Building up instead of tearing down. Telling people what's right with them instead of what's wrong with them. Training up a child in the way he SHOULD go. This is what it means to edify.

As He (Jesus) is, so are we in this world. Which begs the question, how is He? And where is He? Because only in knowing that can we know who we are, how we are, and where we are!

We are the salt and the light. That means that Jesus works through us. But what does it mean if the salt loses it's saltiness? What does it mean if the light doesn't shine?

God's Word (which is Jesus, which is love) is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path. Let's look at that in depth.

God is happy because the cry of His heart--to be our God and for us to be His people--was accomplished on the cross. In this episode we look at what it means for US that He is happy!

I believe God is a happy God. Why? Because He got the desire of His heart. And because the desire of His heart was the best thing ever. For Him... and for us! In part 1 of this 2 part series we look at how God got happy. Next week, in part 2, we will look at what it means for us that He IS happy!

It seems logical to think that entering into rest means finishing the work. But Jesus already finished the work 2,000 years ago on the cross. So our part MUST be something else. Find out what our part is right here!

If you want to live your best life (and who doesn't?), you need to understand what your best life is. Spoiler alert: It's a life of service. A life of giving what you've got rather than trying to get something you think you haven't got!

What does it mean to guard and keep your heart? It doesn't mean shutting it down or hardening it. It means keeping your heart open... to love!

There are a lot of instances in the Bible of people having their names changed. In this episode we look at three of them. Abram to Abraham, Jacob to Israel, and Saul to Paul. When you understand that your name is your nature, you will understand that you are not what people call you, but you are what you answer to!

We have been given a new nature. Jesus' nature. The love nature. But that begs the question... what is the nature of love?

What does it truly mean to repent? Find out here!

Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. We've looked at the Way and the Truth. Now it is time to look at the Life. The Life of the Father. The abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of God that is a life of love!

Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Last week we looked at the Way. This week we look at the Truth. And we see that Jesus is the truth about the Father, and that the Truth has set you free and made you free... but it is the truth you KNOW that equips and empowers you to experience that freedom!

Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." These three things are so important. The Way to the Father. The Truth about the Father. The Life of the Father. In part 1, we look at the Way.

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. But what does it mean to be sheep? And to follow only the Good Shepherd?

A transformation took place on the cross. We've talked about it some in the idea of being saved by grace and transforming from sinner to saint. In this episode we look at it another way--we have been transformed from slave to Son!

Jesus gave His disciples The Great Commission. If we know who we are--His disciples--and what it means to BE His disciples, then we can also know and understand what we are to do; Go out and love people!

To err is human. To forgive is divine. That means that we can only forgive (ourselves and others) because we have been divinely forgiven!

Abraham is the father of faith. So let's look at some of his instances of faith. See what he was told to do and what he actually did. Because faith, more than anything, is a trust issue. If you trust God, you'll do what He says. And, most importantly, watch as Abraham's faith GROWS!

If death and hell were thrown into the lake of fire (and they were) then hell can't BE the lake of fire, right? We look at what the fire actually is--spoiler alert, God is a consuming fire--and what it means to be totally consumed with love!

What did Jesus REALLY say and believe about an afterlife? Heaven...? Hell...? Was that His concern? Or did He, perhaps, come that we might have LIFE and have LIFE more abundantly? The days of heaven ON EARTH...