Posted at 19:12h
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God
by Tim Hatch
A new study reveals Jesus was right about something we find the most difficult to do. Praying for your enemies calms anger and creates better behavior in the midst of hostility from those who provoke and insult us. So says new research from Ohio State...
Posted at 13:42h
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God
by Tim Hatch
Amos 7:8 Then the Lord said, “Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them; Amos sees a plumb line in a vision from God. If you have any carpentry or masonry experience...
Posted at 19:44h
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God,
Personal
by Tim Hatch
I found an interesting insight from Philip Yancey’s book on Prayer: “Be still and know that I am God”: the Latin imperative for “be still” is vacate. As Simon Tugwell explains, ‘God invites us to take a holiday [vacation], to stop being God for a...
In the parable of the talents Jesus uses very intentional language to draw a clear line of distinction between the first two servants who doubled their master’s money and the third servant who hid his one talent in the sand. Comparing the language of the...
Posted at 16:48h
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Church Life
by Tim Hatch
Help us have an awesome EASTER weekend! Waters will be expecting many people new and old to our Easter services. Please consider doing all of the following things that make you uncomfortable for the sake of those who need Christ. 1. Park in the farthest...
Posted at 15:14h
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Church Life
by Tim Hatch
People leave churches for good reasons and for bad. These are some of the worst reasons I’ve heard at our church with translation of what they really mean: 10. The Church is getting to big. [Translation] I’m not as important as I used to be....
Posted at 16:21h
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Leadership
by Tim Hatch
I was reading Psalm 103 last night. I LOVE this Psalm. This line really hit me from VERSES 2 and 3: Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases” Psalm 103:2–3 I was thinking...
Posted at 18:13h
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God
by Tim Hatch
Do you know who you are? Knowing could change your life, it could rearrange your thinking, it could mean millions of dollars. In 2002, Russell Christoff saw his image on a canister of coffee in a drug store. Evidently, he had modeled for the company...
Posted at 16:12h
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God
by Tim Hatch
What if we lived like we believed “God rewards those who earnestly seek Him?” (Hebrews 11:6). Sometimes I think we forget this: When we react to the day’s economic news just like our unbelieving neighbors, do we not forget that God rewards those who seek...
Posted at 16:32h
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Uncategorized
by Tim Hatch
Wednesday Nights at Waters have been spent digging into an unfamaliar book of the Bible. If you haven’t been to Wednesday Night Bible Study, you are really missing a great study on Amos. So far we’ve spent two weeks on the book and have flown...
