Freedom to Forgive Others
Carson Sutton 3.11.20 I used to think clinched fists would help me fight better, but now I know they make me weaker.—Bob Goff ‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your…
Freedom from Guilt
Carson Sutton 2.12.20 The Old Testament contains 613 laws, most of which seem pretty foreign and strange to us today.If an ox gores a man or woman to death, the ox must be stoned, and its flesh may not be eaten. —Exodus 21:28 But we are familiar with The Ten Commandments. These are seemingly easy…
Freedom from Sin, Slaves of Righteousness
Hayden Parrish 1.29.20 Growing up, one of my youth group’s favorite songs was Pierce My Ear. You may have already started humming the tune, or maybe you have never heard it before. Either way, here are the words: Pierce my ear, O Lord, my God.Take me to Your door this day.I will serve no other…
Freedom from the Yoke of Slavery
Hayden Parrish 1.22.20 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.Galatians 5:1 In Jesus’ day, Jewish Rabbis referred to keeping God’s commands as “yoke of the law’. This phrase would make listeners recall something like the image…
Made Free
Hayden Parrish 1.15.20 Daddy, could you be Kristoff? After hearing this phrase several hundred times over the last month, I am beginning to catch on to what it means. My Frozen-obsessed two-year-old, Lucy, wants me to lay in the floor, hold her Kristoff doll, and nothing else. If I happen to rotate Kristoff’s head, wave…
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