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Christmas 4 Christmas Begins the Process

Christmas 4 Christmas Begins the Process

If forgiveness is the starting point of salvation then what we do is accept the One who forgives, the Lord Jesus, and see what we do after that. When Peter preached to the crowd in Jerusalem about why Jesus was crucified they asked what they should do in response. Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on December 29, 2009 at 9:24am — No Comments

Christmas 3 How Christmas Continues

Christmas 3 How Christmas Continues

Jesus came “…to give his people the knowledge of salvation

through the forgiveness of their sins…(Lk.1:77)”

People had to know that salvation was available; that they had access to it and that there was someone who would provide it. That was the task of John the Baptist. Again, as we have said, that is our task as well. John is the model, the example of being a forerunner. We lay out the knowledge that salvation is possible, that… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on December 28, 2009 at 9:13am — No Comments

Christmas 2 Christmas is Just the Beginning

Christmas 2 Christmas is Just the Beginning

Christmas is not a season that begins with advertising at the end of summer and builds toward Dec.25 only to end on Christmas Day. Christmas morning with presents and the afternoon with its heavy meal are not climactic events. The benefit of Christmas celebration in some other countries is that it starts on Christmas Eve and continues for two weeks until Epiphany, which symbolizes the spread of what began on Christmas. It is in this period… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on December 26, 2009 at 10:26am — No Comments

Christmas 2009 Another Day Closer

Christmas 2009 Another Day Closer

We have just covered the Advent season as a time to tune up our minds, our hearts and our souls. Tuning up means to check out our spiritual condition as we near Jesus’ return. Are we believing spiritually, trusting spiritually and motivated by the Holy Spirit to faith?

When Jesus was born of a virgin it was to make very clear to the world that Jesus was already the Son of God who could enter the world only one way and that was by the pure,… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on December 24, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Advent 10 Tuning Up the Spirit

Advent 10 Tuning Up the Spirit

One of our vacations a few years ago found us driving from North Carolina across the border into a remote part of Tennessee. As we moved toward the border we saw an increase in hillsides that had been stripped of timber. Crossing into Tennessee it became worse. It must have once been strip-mined. We arrived in a small town with buildings that looked beaten down and people actually looking as beaten as the buildings. We drove slowly down the main street,… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on December 22, 2009 at 4:59pm — No Comments

Advent 9 Tuning Up the Heart

Advent 9 Tuning Up the Heart

“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? (Jer.17:9)”

In a passage that describes the devil’s heart, Isaiah 14:13-14 records, “How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!” Here you ask why would God declare such a fall? His answer is clear, “You said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven, I will raise my throne… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on December 22, 2009 at 8:51am — No Comments

Advent 8 Tuning Up the Mind 2

Advent 8 Tuning Up the Mind 2

Before we get into the tuning of the heart we need to look a bit more at the mind. We don’t want to underestimate the need for philosophical discourse since it would cut off dialogue with the intellectual who spends his life in search for truth, pure orderly thought. There are two words that describe an intellectual’s search for truth, worldview and wisdom. The first is a thinking package into which existence and experience can find an orderly pattern to… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on December 21, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Advent 7 Tuning Up the Mind

Advent 7 Tuning Up the Mind

“We use our powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God…(2Cor.10 The Message).”

The principles that set our thought, the logic we use, the basis for thinking--- outside of God they are philosophies. Whether it is the complicated conclusions of the Greeks, the meandering thoughts of Hume, the pyramidal conclusions of Hegel or the rantings of a psychotic like Nietzsche, it is the mind… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on December 20, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

Advent 6 Time for a Tune-Up

Advent 6 Time for a Tune-Up

“We use our powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ (2Cor.10:5 The Message).”

Regardless of where a person is in mind, heart and spirit there are strongholds that are used for self-protection. Self-protection arises out of the need to adjust to the world around us. From outside of us… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on December 19, 2009 at 9:38am — No Comments

Advent 5 How He Did It

Advent 5 How He Did It

“The world is unprincipled. It's dog-eat-dog out there! The world doesn't fight fair. But we don't live or fight our battles that way—never have and never will. The tools of our trade aren't for marketing or manipulation, but they are for demolishing that entire massively corrupt culture. We use our powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on December 18, 2009 at 7:47am — No Comments

Advent 4 War Along the Trail

Advent 4 War Along the Trail

We are still talking about the trail between hearts being the longest trail. It is a spiritual trail filled with obstacles to faith in God. Along that trail guerrilla warfare is the devil’s order of the day. It’s not open warfare but one fought defensively on the perimeter of the heart. The devil sends his spirits of fear, lust, greed, envy, jealousy and anger, to name a few, so that defensive walls are built around the heart. Remember he is the prince of… Continue

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

Advent 3 The Longest Trail Revisited

Advent 3 The Longest Trail Revisited

“Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning (Lk.12:35)”

If you really think about it the longest trail is between hearts. We can take a plane and in one day be in Asia. We can go by car and reach the West Coast in a comfortable five days. We can ‘Skype’ on the computer and in a matter of seconds see and communicate with people around the globe. Physical distance is no longer a barrier. But there is a distance that seems to… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on December 6, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Advent 2 The Longest Trail is Between Hearts

Advent 2 The Longest Trail is Between Hearts

In cross country skiing you have a forerunner, that is, someone who blazes a trail through new snow to make way for the next skiers. If you are a group of people you each take a turn blazing the trail since new snow takes more effort and energy. Each one may take a few hundred yards then the next does the same and so on. Each skier helps the one behind. They all know where they are headed and what has to be done along the… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on December 5, 2009 at 6:32am — No Comments

Advent 1 He's On His Way Back

Advent 1 He’s On His Way Back

Matt.12:6 Jesus said, “But I say unto you, that in this place is one greater than the temple (KJV).”

Which is really greater? Is it the building, the people, the leaders, the institutional forms and rules under which they operate, or the One for whom the building, the institution and the people exist? Another way of putting it, are the forms more important than the substance? Are the structures superior to the One who initiated… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on December 4, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

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