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July 2009 Blog Posts (22)

Pentecost 41 There Are a Heap of Stones Out There

Pentecost 41 There Are a Heap of Stones Out There

“We will leave no stone unturned…” is an expression that implies every effort will be made to accomplish a task. In light of the previous article that is exactly what our mission is all about. But let’s put it in a biblical context:

Ezekiel 36:26-28 (Message Bible), “I'll give you a new heart, put a new spirit in you. I'll remove the stone heart from your body and replace it with a heart that's God-willed, not self-willed.… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on July 31, 2009 at 9:23am — No Comments

Pentecost 40 Take Away the Stone (John 11)

Pentecost 40 Take Away the Stone (John 11)

“There’s no time like the present.” You’ve heard that expression many times. It may just be that today for someone you meet or have been meeting with the time to share your faith is now. There really is no time like the present. But this is not about you it is about the other person. What situation are they in? What is the circumstance they are facing? What problem lies before them? It means stepping out of our shoes and feeling the fit of… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on July 30, 2009 at 8:22am — 2 Comments

Pentecost 39 Does Your Mind Wander When You Pray?

Pentecost 39 Does Your Mind Wander When You Pray?

Recently someone said to me, “It’s funny, no it’s not funny, when I begin to pray my mind wanders. I start out with my list and before I get into it I’m off on something else. I get disconnected.” Ever experience that? Probably the first thing you find is guilt nagging at you. You feel depressed and a failure because you are not like those prayer warriors who spend hours in elegant prayer before the Lord. Let me just say there is hope… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on July 29, 2009 at 8:46am — No Comments

Pentecost 38 Focus, Focus, Focus

Pentecost 38 Focus, Focus, Focus

Working my way through college one of my jobs in the Summer was being a lifeguard. Most of the time you sit but your eyes are always scanning the water. You have to be alert, ready to act. If someone gets in trouble you don’t wait, sit and analyze the situation, make a decision and then act. You jump in and do all that on the way to the problem. That is what your training is all about. In the process you may encounter everything from gratitude to… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on July 27, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Pentecost 37 The Real Transformer

Pentecost 37 The Real Transformer

Jesus said, “No one comes to the Father except through me (John 14:6).”

Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12).

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well (1Jn.5:1).

For the mind, the heart and the spirit there is a definitive framework in which we can… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on July 26, 2009 at 9:29am — No Comments

Pentecost 36 Water Anyone?

Pentecost 36 Water Anyone?

Ezek.47:1-2 Now he brought me back to the entrance to the Temple. I saw water pouring out from under the Temple porch to the east (the Temple faced east). The water poured from the south side of the Temple, south of the altar. He then took me out through the north gate and led me around the outside to the gate complex on the east. The water was gushing from under the south front of the Temple.

3-5 He walked to the east with a measuring tape and… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on July 25, 2009 at 8:06am — No Comments

Pentecost 35 The Flavor to Savor When the Light is Right

Pentecost 35 The Flavor to Savor When the Light is Right

"Let me tell you why you are here. You're here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavors of this earth. If you lose your saltiness, how will people taste godliness? You've lost your usefulness and will end up in the garbage (Matt.5:13 The Message Bible).”

Last time we talked about Jesus telling us we are the light of the world. This time we are told we are the salt of the earth. God is not asking us to do… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on July 22, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Pentecost 34 Time to Turn the Lights On

Pentecost 34 Time to Turn on the Lights

Matt.5:14 You are the light of the world.

Last Sunday, here in Banner Elk, I heard a great sermon about Jesus healing the blind man. While it was wonderful, faithful and biblically nuanced and really had people saying many amen’s, it was not the content but the effect of the sermon that got me. Another light was turned on and it touched my heart. I love to be taught. I thirst for good teaching not so much for the different points but… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on July 21, 2009 at 10:25am — No Comments

Pentecost 33 The Fuel We Run On

Pentecost 33 The Fuel We Run On

One time we started back from the mountains and had filled up on the way. When we got to that point where I-26 meets I-95 the engine started sputtering so we pulled over. We prayed and a bit later the engine started. But a few miles on it started sputtering again. We were able to get to a small town named St.George. We got it to a station and it stopped completely. What the mechanic discovered was water in the gas but the interesting thing is that was… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on July 20, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Pentecost 32 The Cross, God's Heart For Us

Pentecost 32 The Cross, God's Heart For Us

1500 years before Jesus came, that’s when scholars believe Moses wrote Genesis. Genesis contains the roots of God’s plan to recover mankind. It logs us in to the origin of everything, the universe, mankind’s beginning, the fall of man from God and the seed stories of God’s plan for man’s recovery. One in particular sets the stage for the Cross of Christ, our redemption and salvation through it. It is that heart-moving story of God testing… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on July 18, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Pentecost 31 The Final Question

Pentecost 31 The Final Question

Two little boys are playing when one grabs a toy from the other. The one little boy hits the other and takes the toy back. His mother says, “Give the toy back and tell him you’re sorry. Go ahead, tell him.” The little boy is still mad. He curls up his lip and says defiantly he won’t. Again his mother says, “Tell him or you’ll get a spanking.” Half looking at the boy he hit, his lips curled in a snarl, he says very reluctantly, “I’m sorry.” What does… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on July 17, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Pentecost 30 The Atonement---Why Friday Was 'Good' and Not Bad

Pentecost 30 The Atonement---Why Friday Was ‘Good’ and Not Bad

Have you ever felt the need to atone for something you’ve done? What atone means is to make up for something that shouldn’t have been done, something that has brought with it a sense of guilt. We want to atone, make up, for past mistakes. This mistake prone nature we have is due to sin and its inevitable consequence, guilt, which we inherited from the initial act of disobedience Adam and Eve committed. It is not unusual… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on July 16, 2009 at 9:05am — No Comments

Pentecost 29 About Invitations

Pentecost 29 About Invitations

Message Bible---Rom.8:9-11 “ But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won't know what we're talking about. But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells—even though you still experience all the limitations of sin—you yourself experience life on God's terms. It stands to reason,… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on July 15, 2009 at 10:04am — No Comments

Pentecost 28 When Words Make a Difference

Pentecost 28 When Words Make a Difference

Psalm 29

3 The voice of the LORD is over the waters;

the God of glory thunders,

the LORD thunders over the mighty waters.

4 The voice of the LORD is powerful;

the voice of the LORD is majestic.

5 The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars;

the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

6 He makes Lebanon skip like a calf,

Sirion [b] like a young wild ox.

7 The voice of the LORD… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on July 13, 2009 at 11:18am — No Comments

Pentecost 27 Grace at Work Through the Holy Spirit

Pentecost 27 Grace at Work Through the Holy Spirit

If you’ll notice we have been riding under the banner of Pentecost. This is the 27th article minted in the Spirit in Pentecost. Paul states Jesus’ gifting beautifully, “And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on July 9, 2009 at 9:30pm — 1 Comment

Pentecost 26 Why Jesus Said, "Let the dead bury the dead."

Pentecost 26 Why Jesus Said, “Let the dead bury the dead (Mat.8:22).”

In the last two columns we spent the majority of the time lifting up the person of Jesus suggesting His perfection makes Him the sole proprietor of truth. If there is any one single process clarifying that fact it is the death and Resurrection of Jesus. When the Perfect One submitted to suffering and death on the Cross and then rose from the dead He proved that not only He but all who believed in Him would overcome… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on July 9, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Pentecost 25 When Truth Is What Matters

Pentecost 25 When Truth Is What Matters

Before we get into that brief saying of Jesus in Matt.8 more needs to be said about Him. When Jesus proclaimed He was the way, the truth and the life (John 14:6) He was saying He has everything to satisfy the deepest longings of the mind and heart. When Scripture notes that He grew in wisdom and stature with God and man it meant what He already was in perfection enabled Him to develop His humanity perfectly from infancy to manhood. That was the… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on July 8, 2009 at 1:31pm — No Comments

Pentecost 24 What the Spirit of Truth Reveals

Pentecost 24 What the Spirit of Truth Reveals

Matt.8:22 “Follow me, and let the dead bury the dead,” is one of a number of sayings Jesus gives as He passes along. They are brief and, if not seen in context, appear obscure, left to the reader’s personal interpretation. But they are not just random sayings to be pondered without connection. Jesus is not a guru who relishes ambiguity as a means of getting us to look within as though we are the source of our own personal truth. Jesus… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on July 7, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Pentecost 23 The Devil's Hand Has Scrawny Fingers

Pentecost 23 The Devil’s Hand Has Scrawny Fingers

We live in a world where each day we travel on a highway of anxiety. Every curve has the banked turn of fear and offers only question marks after the turn. Media exploit the atmosphere and purposefully increase the tension so profits do the same. Keep the public seemingly informed, divided and emotionally upset. Anxiety is the media’s ‘Aladdin’s lamp.’ A finger rubs the lamp.

Another finger strokes and politics categorizes… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on July 6, 2009 at 2:24pm — No Comments

Pentecost 22 Time for the Spirit of Prophecy and Return to God's Real Plan

Pentecost 22 Time for the Spirit of Prophecy and Return to God’s Real Plan

Jer.2:7-8 "I brought you to a garden land

where you could eat lush fruit.

But you barged in and polluted my land,

trashed and defiled my dear land.

The priests never thought to ask, 'Where's God?'

The religion experts knew nothing of me.

The rulers defied me.

The prophets preached god Baal

And chased empty god-dreams and silly god-schemes.”

I am willing to say… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on July 4, 2009 at 4:24pm — No Comments