11 Tuesday Jul 2017
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I like to think I can do it all myself and that I don’t need any help.
I need to change my mind (repent) because that has me missing God’s goal for my life (sin).
I can’t succeed without the help of Jesus, the Messiah. That is reality and I need to get on board with that. It is all about Jesus and nothing about me. Continue reading
15 Monday May 2017
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John paved the way for Jesus. He set the stage. It is all about life-change. I need to change my mind (repent) about the kind of life I can live.
I know I have missed the goal that God is mind for me. I need to make it clear that I understand that.
Being baptized with Jesus into death and resurrection gives me a changed life. It is His new plan for me. I can reach God’s goal for myself.
I don’t have to live a life that misses that. He is in an amazing mood and gives me this gift simply because He loves me.
Now how great is that?
John the Baptizer appeared in the wild, preaching a baptism of life-change that leads to forgiveness of missing God’s goal for us. People thronged to him from Judea and Jerusalem and, as they confessed their knowledge of missing God’s goal, were baptized by him in the Jordan River into a changed life. John wore a camel-hair habit, tied at the waist with a leather belt. He ate locusts and wild field honey. Mark 1:4-6
16 Thursday Mar 2017
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Jesus challenges us to change our minds (repent).
There is the promise that by seeing the world the way Jesus does, we will never be the same again.
One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
09 Thursday Feb 2017
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Jesus challenges us to change our minds, to think differently. That is the essence of repenting.
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” ~~Eleanor Roosevelt
17 Saturday Sep 2016
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I get to make a choice. While it isn’t either/or my attitude is my choice.
Jesus challenges me to change my mind (repent).
Now would be a good day to do that.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” ~~Zig Ziglar
16 Thursday Jun 2016
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A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you won’t get very far unless you change it!
My attitude about Jesus and who is in charge makes a huge difference. Jesus challenges me to change my mind (repent). It all starts there. It doesn’t end there though.
Every day is a new day, a new opportunity to love. May I change my attitude.
12 Saturday Mar 2016
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Time
Do I have enough time? Jesus demands that I understand that time is up. Now is the time.
I can’t delay understanding who is in charge. I need to change my mind. I must believe.
God’s world (Kingdom) is one where He is in total control. This requires that I change how I think and how I live.
Do I live like God is in charge or like I am in charge?
Do I ask God what he wants to do or do I tell God what I want to do and ask him to bless it?
Time is up. It is clearly up. Jesus has been put in charge of God’s world and I must change my mind.
After John was arrested, Jesus went to Galilee preaching the Message of God: “Time’s up! God’s kingdom is here. Change your life and believe the Message.”
13 Wednesday Jan 2016
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Jesus Messiah
It is clear. There is no room for doubt. We have to accept the facts.
Jesus is Master. Jesus died, was buried, was raised from the dead, ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God, completely in control. Jesus is in charge of God’s government.
Jesus is the Messiah, the one anointed from God to be in charge. Jesus is King and our high Priest.
There is no room for doubt. It is clear. The facts are in.
So what should we do?
“All Israel, then, know this: There’s no longer room for doubt—God made him Master and Messiah, this Jesus whom you killed on a cross.”
Cut to the quick, those who were there listening asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers! Brothers! So now what do we do?”
Peter said, “Change your mind and life. Turn to God and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus the Messiah, so your missing God’s goal (sins) are forgiven. Receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise is targeted to you and your children, but also to all who are far away—whomever, in fact, our Master God invites.” Acts 2:36-39
10 Sunday Jan 2016
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Jesus challenges us to change our minds (repent) about who is in control. Jesus is in charge of God’s country and government. Jesus is our Master. I can make no progress without starting there.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
~~George Bernard Shaw
04 Monday Jan 2016
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Forgiveness
Forgiveness is not about how we feel. Forgiveness is about what we say, what we think and what we do. We need to change how we think about forgiveness. God chooses to forgive us in spite of how we act. God chose to send his son Jesus show us how forgiveness and love work. God is in a good mood.
Jesus challenges us to know that “there is a connection between what God does and what you do. You can’t get forgiveness from God, for instance, without also forgiving others. If you refuse to do your part, you cut yourself off from God’s part.” (Matthew 6:15)
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
~Corrie Ten Boom
27 Sunday Dec 2015
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Jesus challenges us to repent (change our minds) and live in God’s government (Kingdom). God is in control.
Changing our thinking, knowing who is in control and why they are in charge changes our world.
Change your thoughts and you change your world. ~Norman Vincent Peale
13 Tuesday Oct 2015
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Changing our minds (Repent)
John, the Baptizer, came to pave the way for his cousin Jesus, the Messiah and our Master. John was very focused. He lived a simple life. He had an essential message.
John, like Jesus after him, challenges us to change our mind. In traditional translations the word used is repent. I think that has lost its meaning. Changing your mind is the literal meaning in the Greek word. I think that captures the challenge of John and Jesus.
John, couples the need to change our minds with the fact that God’s Kingdom is here. We don’t live in kingdom any longer. We are a republic with elected officials. Jesus has been crowned King by God, his Father. Jesus is in complete control. There is this world and God’s world. In God’s world, Jesus is completely and absolutely in charge of everything. What he wants, at any given moment, is all that matters. We need to change our mind about who is in control. It is not us. It is Jesus.
The way we are thinking misses God’s goal for our life. To understand God’s plan, we need to change the way we think. Here are some key ideas:
While Jesus was living in the Galilean hills, John, called “the Baptizer,” was preaching in the desert country of Judea. His message was simple and austere, like his desert surroundings: “Change your mind (Repent). God’s kingdom is here.”
John and his message were authorized by Isaiah’s prophecy:
Thunder in the desert!
Prepare for God’s arrival!
Make the road smooth and straight!Matthew 3:1-3
02 Friday May 2014
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Tyre and Sidon – Repent and ask for mercy
What if Jesus said this to Dallas? What if he said this to New York City? I can imagine it. Jesus is in our midst. He is performing great and mighty acts of God right now. Do we see it? Do we change our minds and ask for mercy?
We should. Jesus us to do so. God is God. We may not fully understand His ways but we must understand in our heart and act accordingly. He is merciful. He has forgiven us.
“If Tyre and Sidon had been given half the chances given you, they’d have been on their knees long ago, changing their mind (repent) and crying for mercy.” ~Jesus Luke 10:13-14
