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Friday Habit with Joel Guelzo
“The talent I have and I know I have is to get up and go do something. I don’t squander a moment; I just get it done.” @joelguelzo on the @thefridayhabitpodcast. I’ve known Joel for a while – we’ve worked together, we’ve collaborated on projects and he’s my nephew so we have to see each other on holidays…
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Job’s Dark Night
“Job demonstrates that God is after our honesty and not our perceived notion of holiness.” – Pastor Rich Villodas If I’m being totally transparent, I thought I was going to be watching a sermon that had some ties to WandaVision. I had already planned out how I was going to arrange the notes; what dynamic…
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The Right Way to Make Things Right
Here’s my sermon notes for Sunday morning at @thomasroad ! God bless you all out there!
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Past the Point of Being Offended
What’s going on – two posts in one day!? 🤯 @pastorroydockery put out a video today where he speaks to the Coca-Cola “Be less white” training that seems to have a lot of people upset. I’m not saying the training is good because I haven’t seen it but upon seeing the tips of what it takes…
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JD Greear at SBC
“Let me state this very clearly, as clearly as I can, critical race theory is an important discussion and I am all for, as I hope you would be, robust theological discussion about it. For something as important as what biblical justice looks like in the world today, we need careful, robust, Bibles open, on…
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Rahab
I heard a few sermons on Rahab in the last couple of weeks; if you don’t know about her I’d check out the book of Joshua! The harlot, the prostitute – whatever. She became the paragon of virtue and is listed in the lineage of Jesus. What an amazing God we serve. 🙌
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Not Feeling It Part 2: Depression
“If you are alive you are not done. You are still here because God has something for you to do!” Pastor Ron Frisch I headed over to New Jersey to check out Bridge Church and the “Not Feeling It” series they have right now is ON FIRE. 😳 I am 100% in favor of the…
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The Revolving Door of Righteousness
These are my notes from this last Sunday’s service of my home church at Thomas Road Baptist Church. Pastor Jonathan preaching from Judges and laying out how time and time again we mess up but true repentance is turning away from that thing that causes us to stumble. I’ve always loved how Erwin McManus describes…
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Alisa Childers Podcast #96
“As Bible students, we have to be careful that we don’t read into the text what we want it to say – we have to let the text speak for itself.” @allengparr The thing I really like about podcasts is the feeling that I get to hang out with a couple of interesting people as they…
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Joshua: The Whole Story
I’ve followed Pastor Dean Inserra on twitters for a while and I really have appreciated his perspective on certain things! I wondered over to City Church Tallahassee and caught the Sunday Service on Joshua and it’s awesome! I imagine most churches that are reading through the Bible (like ours) are probably at Joshua right now…
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Choosing Space for Hobbies
“Choosing Fun, making space for hobbies in your spiritual life is actually going to be a deposit in who you want to be in the long run.” @anniefdowns I’ve sketched a few episodes of the @preachersnsneakers podcast – he interviews some really interesting people and this one was no exception! I’ve got a pile of books to read…
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Psalm 144:4
Man is like a mere breath; His days are like a passing shadow. -Psalm 144:4 I’m constantly struck by how short life here really is. Whenever I think about holding back forgiveness, holding on to anger, or building up my pride I think about how little time I have here and how it shouldn’t be…
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Looking for Offense
“The more offense I was picking up, the more exhausted I became.” Jason Ewart I was starting the series “Trigger Happy” from @hopelakecountry and man did this quote pop out at me. It’s so true – both in the finding of offense and the exhaustion of picking it up. I’ll likely sketch out the whole thing but…
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Where the Healing Begins
This morning I headed over to New Beech Grove Baptist Church over in Newport News and watched guest speaker @revmikeadams deliver a great sermon about reaching around our boundaries and reaching for Jesus. Can’t argue with that! Some great quotes, I couldn’t get them all in here. Thanks for a great sermon Pastor Mike!
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Crappy Christian Podcast Episode: 98
“If Jesus is agreeing with you on all the issues and beliefs you hold then it’s possible you aren’t following Jesus but a glorified version of yourself. Jesus isn’t supposed to look like us, there is something about Him and what He invites us to that makes us uncomfortable. If you’re not uncomfortable you might…
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Hebrew 4:12
“For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12 Self-help books are fine.Leadership books are fine.Instruction books are fine.Bible study books are fine.Devotional books are fine. But only…
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Come Back to God’s Word
“What are those area’s in your life where you may have conformed to the culture?” I’ve wanted to sketch a sermon from @rhythmchrch for a while and somehow I clicked on a link that I thought was the latest service and it was the service from June! But you know what, when it comes to seeking to…
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Where is God when life is hard?
I’ve been a huge fan of @aussiedave here on instagram for a bit – amazing photography, timely messages, but most importantly just an earnest heart for the Lord. His accounts is one of those that I routinely think “I should totally draw that.” He appears in a series of videos for @FirmIsraelU and they are amazing! There’s only a…
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What if the Manger that held Jesus could talk?
This may be a distinctly Christmas message but you know what; it’s always the right time of year to talk about Jesus. I watched the the Christmas Eve service from Palmcroft Church in Anthem, AZ and really enjoyed Pastor Randy’s sermon about what the manger that held Jesus would say if it could talk. For…
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The Notorious KSP
“We Christians are going to have so many new kinds of opportunities to model Christ to the world in coming days. I don’t know what form this should take in each situation, but God has called us to this task in this time. Brothers and sisters, let’s do this.” @karenswallowprior aka the Notorious KSP Yes 100%…
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The Bible Changed My Mind on Alcohol
“You have one person who never drinks wine at the command of God (John the Baptist) and someone else who does (Jesus) and there’s no sin in that what-so-ever. And this describes some of the church doesn’t it? Some of you have a conviction, you won’t touch the stuff and good for you but don’t…
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MLK
In reading about MLK today I was really struck by what he had to endure in his relatively short time as a civil rights leader. The speeches are amazing and the quotes are great but the grit he displayed and conviction he modeled is truly something else. I don’t know if it’s appropriate to highlight…
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Not Forsaking Our Baptism
“The average Christian spends an hour or 2 a week under the teaching of their local church but as many as 13 hours a day consuming other forms of media: listening to podcasts scrolling through twitter watching cable news.” There was a lot to this sermon. I tried to capture what I could but there…
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Armor of God
Here’s my version of the Armor of God from Ephesians 6:10. Sometimes before I start drawing I hit up google images to see what already exists and what I found is very few women depicted as putting on the Armor of God. I assume they too are wanting to prepare for the schemes of the…
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Beth Moore on Twitter
@bethmoorelpm on Twitter is pretty awesome. Here’s the whole thread: As long as what’s Right or Left is more important to professing Christians than what is right or wrong in light of Jesus, we are doomed to present a caricature of him to the world. Christ is neither left nor right nor is He centrist. God…
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People-Pleasing
“Only God’s love can fill the hunger in our soul.” @derwinlgray at @transformationchurch This was a good one; as one who has “people-pleasing” tendencies this is the message I needed to hear. The people pleasing is a futile act. Like Dr. Gray states: “No amount of human approval will be enough.” The verses he quotes here are powerful…
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Jason Mayfield!
“Anytime you simplify down to a derogatory phrase you strip it of all theology.” @thejasonmayfield I totally get the irony here as I’ve summarized a hour-long YouTube video into a single quote but still – so true. This is the series that when it comes up in my YouTube feed I stop whatever I’m doing and…
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Nimrod!
UPDATE: After publishing this I learned that Nimrod was not a very aspirational character. 😬 “Cush was also the ancestor of Nimrod, who was the first heroic warrior on earth.” Genesis 10:8 At my church we’re doing a read-through of the Bible in the first 6 months of 2021. I’m always struck by how many…
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The Seven Prophetesses of the Old Testament
If you count there’s actually 8 women there – I included Jael because of her involvement with Deborah’s judgement. 🤷♂️ This has been quite the series for me – I’ve known of some of these women through cursory Bible readings but this series has illustrated the richness of the Bible for me. There are people…
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Forgetting the Past with a Heart for the Future
“The God that breathed these words thousands of years ago is the same God of today and tomorrow!” Pastor Jonathan Falwell Sunday morning at @thomasroad At the beginning of 2020 I set one goal – to sketch note every sermon of my home church of Thomas Road. This last sketch finishes that goal! Phew! It’s hard…