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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…

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Added by HKHaugan on June 10, 2015 at 11:42am — No Comments

In the Cross of Christ We Glory

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…

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Added by HKHaugan on June 7, 2015 at 7:16am — No Comments

75+ Shades of Glory

75 Shades of Glory

What really makes the human Jesus different from the rest of us that we should follow Him? If He is God the Son how was that revealed in Him? What is there about Him that makes Him a perfect human being in every detail? When He claims to be one with His Father what does that really…

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Added by HKHaugan on June 6, 2015 at 8:34am — No Comments

75+ Shades of Glory

What really makes the human Jesus different from the rest of us that we should follow Him? If He is God the Son how was that revealed in Him? What is there about Him that makes Him a perfect human being in every detail? When He claims to be one with His Father what does that really mean? Just what are some of the indicators that point to His perfection? Is He really holy? Perhaps the following will be a start in answering…

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Added by HKHaugan on June 5, 2015 at 8:47am — No Comments

The Real Wrestling Match

Eph.6:12 “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”

Years ago there was a movie called “The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” It was about seedpods that traveled across the universe arriving on earth. Each pod carried the copy of an existing earth person. When that person fell asleep, an alien force absorbed and replaced it. The…

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Added by HKHaugan on June 4, 2015 at 8:54am — No Comments

One Body Everywhere for Everyone

If I went to an auto parts store and got all the parts to an automobile, got a garage to put them in and the tools to put the parts together I would still be at a loss as to how to build it. I would need three things, a picture of the car, the plans to put the parts together and the expertise for its assembly. First, I would need to know the concept of what a car is, what it looks like, what it is designed for and the plans to build it. Second, I would need to organize, arrange for and…

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Added by HKHaugan on May 28, 2015 at 2:02pm — No Comments

Oh, Now I See!

What does it take to solve a math problem? I remember when I was first taking algebra and the teacher would write equations on the board. I would sit there and wonder what in the world it was about and how to follow the steps he was giving me. One in particular, plus or minus b-squared, times the square root of so and so, got me. I’d ask classmates how they did it. I’d do the steps taught and it worked but I really didn’t get it regardless of how many times I worked it. It took about three…

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Added by HKHaugan on May 27, 2015 at 10:13am — No Comments

Pentecost Starts Right Now

Reluctance, indifference, apathy, guilt, pride, shame, withdrawal and denial; the spiritual droppings of fear that inhabit the heart's withdrawal from its created design to be consciously spiritual, personal and relational. They are the symptoms making up part of the fig leaf obsession covering our individual aloneness. They are buttressed by the invented conclusions we make about how we can best deal with our life in the world around us. Those conclusions come from our experience of…

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Added by HKHaugan on May 24, 2015 at 7:38am — No Comments

Getting Our Act Together (So to speak)!

If I went to an auto parts store and got all the parts to an automobile, got a garage to put them in and the tools to put the parts together I would still be at a loss as to how to build it. I would need three things, a picture of the car, the plans to put the parts together and the expertise for its assembly.

First, I would need to know the concept of what a car is, what it looks like, what it is designed for and the plans to build it.

Second, I would need to organize, arrange…

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Added by HKHaugan on May 23, 2015 at 9:30am — No Comments

In the Cross of Christ We Glory

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 Abraham, Chapter 22. Let’s look at it. After you read…

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Added by HKHaugan on May 20, 2015 at 7:16am — No Comments

To Control or Not Control, That is the Question!

Who's really in control? That is one of the big issues in our lives as we go from moment to moment. One of the major goals of the devil's spirit, sin, is to get us to be constantly concerned about being in control. That is, control of how we look to the rest of the world around us, how we respond in unexpected moments, how we set up our lives in a way that gives us the least problems and the most security. Relational control involves knowing how to…

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Added by HKHaugan on May 18, 2015 at 8:17am — No Comments

It's Not Complicated, It's Personal

When God Gets Personal

Jesus tells us in John 16 what the Holy Spirit will do, “8When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: 9in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me; 10in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.”

Now is when Jesus really gets personal. He knows exactly what the…

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Added by HKHaugan on May 16, 2015 at 9:43am — No Comments

Pentecost, The Holy Spirit

As we have already indicated, a spiritual heart is a heart sensitive to the spiritual dimension wherein our relationship with Jesus guides us with His Word. He is the light that reveals its contents and the bread that sustains us within it. He brings us into His Kingdom, the Kingdom of the hearts, the Kingdom of God. He is the gate through which we walk each day and the shepherd who protects us along the way. He sends His Spirit who makes us one with Him and gives us His eyes to see and His…

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Added by HKHaugan on May 14, 2015 at 7:00am — No Comments

Pentecost, The Holy Spirit

As we have already indicated, a spiritual heart is a heart sensitive to the spiritual dimension wherein our relationship with Jesus guides us with His Word. He is the light that reveals its contents and the bread that sustains us within it. He brings us into His Kingdom, the Kingdom of the hearts, the Kingdom of God. He is the gate through which we walk each day and the shepherd who protects us along the way. He sends His Spirit who makes us one with Him and gives us His eyes to see and His…

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Added by HKHaugan on May 14, 2015 at 7:00am — No Comments

Growing in the Spirit

Growing in the Spirit

Based on the last posting consider these three things again:

First, you are conscious of living in a spiritual dimension that governs the physical dimension. You begin viewing everything from a spiritual perspective. There is a whole spiritual reality behind everything you see.

Second, you were directly connected to God by being born again spiritually. You have found your real identity as an image of God and a disciple of Jesus. Jesus becomes the…

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Added by HKHaugan on May 12, 2015 at 6:54pm — No Comments

Getting Our Spiritual Bearings

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will…

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Added by HKHaugan on May 8, 2015 at 8:30am — No Comments

Our One Sufficient Spirit

Pentecost 4 The One Sufficient Spirit

Before Pentecost the world simply accepted a variety of gods, religions and the multiplicity of all kinds of spirits. Guesswork at best, philosophers searching and a general resignation to whatever seemed to satisfy for the moment.

But with Pentecost came the revelation, recognition and realization of the Holy Spirit as the singular Spirit of the One God. First, the revelation that God is a Father, second, the recognition that the Son is…

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Added by HKHaugan on May 7, 2015 at 8:57am — No Comments

Pentecost, The Shift to the Spirit

The single most important event after the coming of the Lord Jesus is His sending the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. This is where the shift to true reality begins. It is the Holy Spirit who brings our minds, our hearts and our spirits into spiritual reality. Because of this fact we are going to spend the next few pages visiting the event itself.

Acts 2:1-4 “When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.  Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from…

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Added by HKHaugan on May 3, 2015 at 7:09am — No Comments

The Isaiah Prophecy

Post Script Isaiah 52:13-53:12

So let's jump in and work through the intensely personal description Isaiah is given about this suffering servant who bears, carries, takes on the sins of a world of hearts, each having fallen in spiritual disrepair.

Is.52:13: “See, my servant will act wisely...” Wisdom, this is the key to this passage. Wisdom sets the stage for the personal description that follows. If we talk about the gift of wisdom it is a spiritual gift, the flagship gift of…

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Added by HKHaugan on April 28, 2015 at 7:05am — No Comments

The Big Picture

Post Script Isaiah 52:13-53:12

It might be good to start with what prophecy is all about. The whole issue of prophecy is God looking out for us so that we can look forward. By identifying sin and evil, He frees us from love of the world to His love. He restores our humanity to what He designed it for, loving Him and loving others. Our conscious moments, our lives, connected to Him make us real. So as we look at this particular passage from Isaiah think of every next moment in terms of…

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Added by HKHaugan on April 24, 2015 at 7:00am — No Comments

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