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The Way We Are Isn’t The Way We Were…
While it is true that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, and while it may seem that we have been wandering off the beaten path during some of our recent visits together, I feel certain that if we take a moment to do a brief recap of our journey together so far, we will find that we have been traveling along a remarkably straight road. In fact, we should be able to see an orderly, even progressive, pattern starting to develop—almost as if someone had planned it that way! I wish I could take credit for it but, in spite of the fact that I…
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Welcome to the Overcomer’s Club!
Hi, and welcome back! After our last visit and our previous discussion about some of the more depressing aspects of the Christian life, I wasn’t altogether sure that you would be back. But I am glad that you weren’t scared off because today, I want to talk to you about one of the most positive and exciting realities of our Christian experience. In fact, what I have to share today is so good that we may have to once again resort to the use of sound effects! Before we get to all of that, however, let’s take a moment to review what we talked about last time—which is, Jesus…