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'Change Begins in You' Tagged Posts (Page 28)

Change Begins in You (10-12-2022)

Are you a peace-breaker, peace-faker, or peace-maker? A peace-breaker always stirs up drama in everybody’s life. A peace-faker pretends they have peace but is actually just sweeping their problems under the rug, resolving nothing. But a peace-maker doesn’t look to create problems but definitely works to resolve them in a way that honors God when problems do come. So, which one do…

Changes Begins in You (10-11-2022)

We in the South love to say, “Well, bless your heart.” God does indeed want to bless your heart because your heart is the key to one day seeing God. But it takes a pure heart. Jesus said in Matthew 5:8, Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. But nobody’s born with a pure heart. We’re born sinners…

Change Begins in You (10-10-2022)

I absolutely love receiving mercy. Don’t you? Mercy is not receiving the bad thing you deserve. Like instead of getting a fired for missing that project deadline, your boss gives you an extension. That’s mercy. Or like the police officer giving you a warning instead of that ticket for speeding. That’s mercy. And I love receiving it. Everybody does. But do you…

Change Begins in You (10-07-2022)

As a father of five kids, I’ve heard the phrase “I’m hungry” or “I’m thirsty” innumerable times over the years. Sometimes it’s like, dude, we just got up from the table. You can’t be hungry. You can’t be thirsty. But if my children were actually hungry or thirsty, I’d do everything in my power to make sure they were filled with good…

Changes Begins in You (10-06-2022)

Have you ever heard that the meek shall inherit the earth? Jesus said that in Matthew 5:4. Now, to be meek doesn’t mean you are weak or wimpy. Meekness is choosing to bring your strength under self-control so that you can be gentle to others. Now when the world hears that, they say, “Are you crazy? The meek will be torn to…

Change Begins in You (10-05-2022)

As a pastor, I’ve done a lot of funerals and have witnessed some of the saddest moments you can imagine. Like the mom whose adult son had been run over by a train. In a moment of grief at the funeral, she literally tried to climb into the casket with her son. She was just broken with grief. But what if we…

Change Begins in You (10-04-2022)

I’ve met tons of people over the course of my life, and they all have at least one thing in common:  they want to be blessed. Whether they recognize God or not, they want to experience happiness, contentment, and goodness. Don’t you want to be blessed? Well, true blessing only comes from God. Jesus tells us in Matthew 5:3 that God blesses…

Change Begins in You (10-03-2022)

Do you ever look around Meridian and surrounding communities and wish that things were different? Do you long for something to change for the better? Yes, we live in brokenness, but there is hope in God because He has promised in Revelation 21:5, “Behold, I am making all things new.” In other words, all of this brokenness is about to be fixed.…

Free to Observe or Not Observe

Now that Halloween has passed, we are now running full steam ahead into the Thanksgiving season. We do still have a Thanksgiving season, don’t we? Or has the Christmas season gobbled it up? I love every single one of these seasons and gladly celebrate them all. The cultural ones, the patriotic ones, and especially the…