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Year C Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost Meditation

“Be Humble,” is an interesting command. Did you ever try to do it? Jesus says, “All who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.” If you faked your humbleness by sitting at the end of the table, would you be exalted?  Read more


Year C Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost Bottom Line Meditations

Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost: Romans 7:4 - You died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. Time spent in legalism is enough to make one believe in the grace of God! Think Legalism: To hear is rationally audible. Feel Grace: To hear is to feel consciously.  Read more


Year C Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost Meditation

Jesus didn’t have the right to heal this woman just because it was the right thing to do. It was not. It broke the law. The rabbi had the right and duty to quote the Law, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work. Why don’t you come back on a non Sabbath day and do your healing? Why pick on this sacred day to break the Fourth Commandment? Jesus had the right to heal on the Sabbath because He was because He was God. He had the authority to break this Commandment and any others He wished to break. As a matter of fact, He did not break any laws; He changed all of the Commandments and all the Laws and the Prophets.  Read more


Year C Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost Bottom Line Meditations

Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost: Romans 6:14 - For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace. The legalists are the cause of all of life's problems and they think they are the answer to all of life's problems! Think Legalism: One rejoices about what happens. Feel Grace: One rejoices about feeling the power that makes it happen.  Read more


Year C Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost Meditation

The question of biblical authority is ultimately a question of Christology. What we believe about Jesus will ultimately determine what we believe about the Bible. There are two ways of discerning what we believe about Jesus in Scripture. We can come in with our minds made up about the Bible being the Word of God, or we can believe Jesus is the Word of God. If we believe the Bible is the Word of God than Jesus must fit into our concept of who the Bible says He is. If we believe Jesus is the Word of God then the Bible must fit into what He says it is.  Read more


Year C Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost Bottom Line Meditations

Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost: Romans 4:16 - Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace. Legalism is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it! Think Legalism: Sees the outward results of destruction. Feel Grace: Feels the inward cause of destruction that comes when out of God’s Presence.  Read more


Year C Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost Meditation

In today’s Scripture, Jesus tells us not to “be afraid for God has given us His Kingdom”, which is His Presence within us. We are told to sell all our possessions. Literally, we think of selling the material things we possess. Let us get beyond the literal thinking of material things to the things we possess spiritually. They are much more significant.  Read more


Year C Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost Bottom Line Meditations

Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost: Romans 4:13 It was not through the law but through the righteousness that comes by faith. 99% of legalists give the rest a bad name! Think Legalism: Not to raise up is physical. Feel Grace: Not to raise up is spiritual.  Read more


Year C Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost Meditation

Today’s lesson is an excellent illustration of Jesus' way of grace. The teaching is to know the difference being in or out of His Presence can make. Here are two brothers who are out of the Presence. They have become angry, greedy and bitter. Why did Jesus not give fair judgment to the two brothers? The answer was to either change the inheritance or not change it. Regardless of which was chosen, one would be happy and the other would remain a bitter, angry victim the rest of their life. So why did he answer the way he did?  Read more


Year C Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost Bottom Line Meditations

Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost: Romans 4:13 It was not through the law but through the righteousness that comes by faith. 99% of legalists give the rest a bad name! Think Legalism: Not to raise up is physical. Feel Grace: Not to raise up is spiritual.  Read more


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