Posted at 08:53h
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by Tim Hatch
Job 36:13-14 (NLT) For the godless are full of resentment. Even when he punishes them, they refuse to cry out to him for help. 14 They die when they are young, after wasting their lives in immoral living. It has to be one of my...
Posted at 11:06h
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by Tim Hatch
Today I am thinking of a great quote from Francis Chan’s book “Crazy Love”: Would my life look any different if tomorrow I stopped believing in God? A difficult question to ask, but one we must. Paul told us to “test yourselves to see that...
Posted at 09:02h
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by Tim Hatch
Reading from George Barna today I learned that faith in Christ among the African American community is growing in America and they are the most solidly Christian sub culture in our Country. Awesome. It reminds me of something Jesus said in Matthew 13 about the...
Posted at 09:26h
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by Tim Hatch
One of the things that gets me extremely annoyed is when we turn Jesus into something other than who He is. And let’s be honest, many times we’ve wrongly cast Jesus in the image of a wimp. You’ve seen the pictures of “Renaissance Jesus.” Long...
Posted at 12:10h
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Church Life
by Tim Hatch
Paul told the Philippians to honor an exceptional servant named Epaphroditus and others who serve the church like him. Philippians 2:29-30 (NLT) Welcome him with Christian love and with great joy, and give him the honor that people like him deserve. It’s a good thing,...
Posted at 06:33h
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Church Life,
God
by Tim Hatch
David was a great warrior. David was a great worshipper. I believe what made David a great warrior for God was that he understood how to be a great worshipper. He ran to fight Goliath with worship on his lips. Worship exalts God and belittles...
Michael Jackson. What came to mind when you heard that name in: 1975? 1984? 1993? 2005? I can imagine the words would shift dramatically from one date to the other. A lot of recollecting has happened the last few days of what Michael was to...
Posted at 08:27h
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God,
Personal
by Tim Hatch
Speaking about Moses yesterday gave me an opportunity to talk about a stage in life many Christians refer to as the “Wilderness.” Right in the middle of Moses’ prominence in Egypt and delivering the Hebrews from slavery were 40 years of wandering with borrowed sheep...
Posted at 08:23h
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Culture,
God
by Tim Hatch
I’m a proud Facebook and Twitter user. I can appreciate Don’s decision for his household not to use social networking, but I can’t help it . . . I love it and want to use it! Heck, I’m a tweeting, blogging, facebooking Jesus-loving kind of...
Posted at 05:55h
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Culture,
God
by Tim Hatch
I love it when the first verse you read in your daily Bible reading is this awesome. In case you are wondering, this year I’m following the Youversion.com yearly Bible reading plan. It takes you through Old and New together and you end up reading...
