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November 2009 Blog Posts (14)

Pentecost 101 Watch Out for the "A" Word

Pentecost 101 Watch Out for the ‘A’ Word

“You scheme catastrophe; your tongue cuts razor-sharp, artisan in lies. You love evil more than good, you call black white. You love malicious gossip, you foul-mouth (Ps.52:2-4).”

In a recent pro football game the newly hired young coach of a Western team unleashed an intensely angry tirade at his offensive line. It was filled with a stream of filthy language. It was heard by millions on TV. I heard it. When understandable reactions… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on November 30, 2009 at 11:46am — No Comments

Pentecost 100 'Seeing is Believing? No, Believing is Seeing!

Pentecost 100 ‘Seeing is Believing?’ No, Believing is Seeing!

In a speech to Cambridge University students on Dec.4, 1857 Dr.David Livingstone, the famous missionary physician said, “People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay?…Say rather, it is a privilege…”

God had given him a vision, to see, perceive… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on November 27, 2009 at 6:21pm — No Comments

Pentecost 99 The Eye of the Spirit

Pentecost 99 The Eye of the Spirit

In 1952 the Mathews Bridge was built connecting Arlington to down town Jacksonville. Just before it officially opened I drove the first bus across. It was a JJC bus (now JU). I drove the Glee Club to a concert downtown. Just before it was built there were only two bridges, the Old Bridge (Acosta) and the New Bridge (Main Street). There were only two roads to the beach, the Old Beach Rd. (Atlantic Blvd.) and the New Beach Rd. (Beach Blvd.). Those… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on November 25, 2009 at 1:46pm — No Comments

Pentecost 98 The Eye of the Mind

Pentecost 98 The Eye of the Mind

If we perceive something, say an attitude, can we trust the conclusions we make about it? That is, are we reading that attitude accurately? We have to remember that our sinful nature tends to work for safety out of fear and pride. We may have a correct assumption but it will still be processed to put us in control not only of how we think about it but also how we react to it. How do we really see it in our ‘mind’s eye?’

This is precisely… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on November 23, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Pentecost 97 The Eye of the Heart

Pentecost 97 The Eye of the Heart

'Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.'

(Matt.13:14, Jesus quoting Is.6:9)

What we hear and see, do we understand with our mind and perceive in our heart?

When you meet someone for the first time, hear what he or she has to say and see how he or she says it; just what is your first impression? That question opens up the issue of perception. What do you perceive? I keep hearing this… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on November 22, 2009 at 7:52am — No Comments

The Great Western Heresy? Given Me a Break!

The Great Western Heresy? Give Me a Break!

You are the reader in Jesus’ following prophecy. He said, "The prophet Daniel spoke about 'the hated thing that destroys [the abomination that causes desolation-NIV] Someday you will see it standing in the holy place. The reader should understand this (Matt.24:15 NIRV).”

What should you the reader understand? First, a bishop, a pastor, a denominational leader stands in a holy place, a successor to the Apostles, a proclaimer and… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on November 20, 2009 at 9:27am — No Comments

Pentecost 96 Living the High Life

Pentecost 96 Living the High Life

In the 1949 movie, Knock On Any Door, a gang member philosophically sums up his frustration of living in a dead-end New York City environment when he says, “Live fast, die young and have a good looking corpse.” In many ways it categorizes much of the secular world’s philosophy, which tells us to get what we can while we can, no matter what you have to do to get it.

I remember sensing the lostness and futility other kids felt while living… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on November 18, 2009 at 1:21pm — No Comments

Pentecost 95 There's Bad News and Good News

Pentecost 95 There’s Bad News and Good News

A saddened and frustrated architect looks at a collapsed building he had designed, goes back to his drawing board, surveys every detail of his blueprints and, in anger, sweeps his arm across the tables scattering the blueprints across the floor. What went wrong? Where are the flaws? Was it his design? No one is perfect but he had checked every drawing and had his subordinates recheck them. He begins to survey every step of the construction… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on November 16, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Pentecost 94 Getting It Right

Pentecost 94 Getting It Right

There is so much that can be said about judgment. The heart of judgment is the heart out of which it comes. It is the condition of the heart that determines the nature of judgment, the experience of judgment and the result of judgment.

Let’s look first at the nature of judgment. Judgment is built into each of us. No matter what we do, every situation demands a choice. We ponder it with our mind, process it attitudinally in our hearts and then… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on November 13, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Pentecost 93 Judgment, It Should Have Been Us

Pentecost 93 Judgment, It Should Have Been Us.

“You better watch out you better not cry, you better not pout, I’m telling you why, Santa Claus is coming to town. He’s making a list and counting it twice, he’s looking for those who are naughty or nice, Santa Claus is coming to town. He knows when you’ve been sleeping, he knows when you’re awake, he knows when you’ve been good or bad so be good for goodness sake….” Remember that song around Christmas time? As cute as the song is it’s… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on November 12, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments

Pentecost 92 Judgment

Pentecost 92 Judgment Romans 1:18-3:20

In this very long passage Paul has been inspired to hold nothing back. The opening of his letter is a blanket statement of the truth of the Gospel of God in Jesus the Christ, its inclusiveness of all humanity and the Roman Christians’ part in it. But there is an urgency in his message. They and all others who will receive this letter must understand the plight of the world, as they know it. It is doomed to destruction by the deliberate sin and… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on November 11, 2009 at 7:24am — No Comments

Pentecost 91 Judgment Day; Dread or Joy?

Pentecost 91 Judgment Day; Dread or Joy?

On the heels of the Word’s revelation of God’s wrath comes judgment, the final universal Day of Judgment. God has concluded and stated ahead of time, for our sake, there will be a day of judgment (Matt.12:36) when He will judge men’s secrets (1Cor.2:16). Jesus makes this very clear in Matt.25:31-46 where He uses the Parable of the Sheep and Goats to picture the event.

Four things will happen at the judgment:

First, all humanity… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on November 6, 2009 at 8:26am — No Comments

Pentecost 90 Letting God Get His Mind Around Us.

Pentecost 90 Letting God Get His Mind Around Us

Just as there is a difference between God’s wrath and man’s wrath there is also a difference between God’s judgment and man’s judgment. But first we need to revisit the whole issue of wrath. After that we will look at judgment.

God’s wrath is born out of His Holiness and perfection. It is not a planned wrath but rather the reaction of His sheer power of perfection and holiness that cannot but reject sin and evil. It is His… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on November 5, 2009 at 4:14pm — No Comments

Pentecost 89 Something You'll Want to Do

Pentecost 89 Something You’ll Want to Do

Years ago Roy Acuff was known as the ‘King of Country Music.” He sang a song called “ I Saw the Light.” One verse of the song says “I was alone, my life filled with sin. I wouldn’t let my dear Savior in. Then like the blind man God gave back my sight, praise the Lord, I saw the light.” We all want to see not only with our eyes but also with our minds and hearts. How we think spiritually determines how we move safely through unseen… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on November 4, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments