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The purpose of America's Keswick is to model and teach Biblical victorious living in Christ Jesus, to provide an environment in which Biblical life transformation takes place and to foster active personal involvement in the local church.

Cross-Centered Love (Part 4)

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Cross-Centered Love (Part 4)

“This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. This is love; not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we ought to love one another.” 1 John 4:9-11

Some of you teach and know that one of the downsides of teaching is that God often works the stuff you are teaching into your own heart before you teach it or as you are teaching it. When I say “downside” — it really is the “upside.” Know that when I am sharing with you each day, this is the stuff that God is hammering out in my life — you just get to be part of the journey.

Here are more insights on “cross-centered” love that Dr. Paul David Tripp shares in his book,
BROKEN DOWN HOUSE — Living Productively in a World Gone Bad (Shepherd’s Press):

Cross-centered love ….

21. It means being willing to have [my] schedule and plans interrupted and altered

22. It means being willing to grant and ask forgiveness

23. It means paying attention to the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the people God puts in [my] path, and looking for ways to help them bear these burdens

24. It means believing that God will not call [me] to a task without giving [me] what [I] need to accomplish it

25. It means being willing to get up earlier and staying awake longer

26. It means learning the details about someone’s struggle so that [I] can love wisely, while at the same time guarding the reputation of the person you are loving

27. It means weeping with the one who weeps and rejoicing with the one who rejoices

28. It means being willing to endure tense and uncomfortable situations lovingly

29. It means allowing [myself] plausible excuses that seeming free [me] from love’s call

30. It means making a commitment to being a faithful friend

31. It means being willing to take on big things, even as [I] humbly admit [my] limits

32. It means keeping [my] promises and being faithful to [my] word

The bottom line is that apart from Christ loving THROUGH me, I will fail miserably in what I just shared. That is the beauty of the message of victorious Christian living — HE LOVES THROUGH ME! Wow! Let Him work these insights into your heart and life today. — Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s KESWICK

DIGGING DEEPER: Proverbs 29; Exodus 21-22; Matthew 19

DIG THIS QUOTE: Have we as a people been so dumbed down we can’t see it? Well, this is what happens, I’m afraid, in a postmodern culture where all values are equivalent and all truth is relative. One moment the President browbeats Congress to pass a trade bill with China. Forget Christians being persecuted. The same day the same President moments later angrily demands sanctions against Japan for hunting whales. There are no principles, just momentary preferences, and everything depends on what’s to be gained by those in positions of power….What’s good enough for whales ought to be good enough for persecuted Christians. Charles (Chuck) Colson

DETERMINED DIGGING: Level 1 — 2 Chronicles 7:14; Psalm 19

Cross-Centered Love (Part 3)

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Cross-Centered Love (Part 3)

“This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. This is love; not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we ought to love one another.” 1 John 4:9-11

This is powerful stuff … learning to love with cross-centered love. Here are ten more definitions on cross-centered love from Dr. Paul David Tripp’s book, BROKEN DOWN HOUSE (Shepherd Press):

11. I means being lovingly and humbly honest in moments of misunderstanding; more committed to reconciliation than to being right.

12. It means admitting that you are still learning to love as you have been loved

13. It means being willing to own up to your sin and admit your faults

14. It means not judging the success of your life by the size of your house or bank account, or by the quality of your car, but by the quality of your love for God and others

15. It means regularly examining the motivations, desires, and thoughts of your heart in the mirror of God’s Word

16. It means moving beyond simply surrounding yourself with people whom you find comfortable and likable

17. It means being a student of God’s WORD, a joyful participant in the means of grace, and a committed participant in the fellowship of the body of Christ, so that the love you offer others may be increasingly pure and mature

18. It means being willing to be misunderstood, mistreated, and misrepresented for the sake of incarnating Christ’s love

19. It means overcoming evil with good

20. It means not letting race, social class, gender, age, or ethnicity get in the way of a biblical call to Christ-like love

Brothers, has the Holy Spirit touched your heart today with one of these principles? If so, don’t just move on, stop and allow Him to work it into your heart and mind. — Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s KESWICK

DIGGING DEEPER: Proverbs 28; Exodus 19-20; Matthew 18:21-35

DIG THIS QUOTE: When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead us to worship God, filling our inner being with a fullness we would never have thought possible. Awe prepares the way in us for the power of God to transform us and this transformation of our inner attitudes can only take place when awe leads us in turn to wonder, admiration, reverence, surrender, and obedience toward God. James Houston

DETERMINED DIGGING: Level 1 — 2 Chronicles 7:14; Psalm 19

A Cross-Centered Love (Part 2)

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A Cross-Centered Love (Part 2)

“This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. This is love; not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we ought to love one another.” 1 John 4:9-11
Yesterday I introduced the teaching of cross-centered love: a love that is “a willing self -sacrifice for the redemptive good on another.” Dr. Paul David Tripp illustrates what this love looks like in his book A BROKEN-DOWN HOUSE [– Living Productively in a World Gone Bad (Shepherd Press)
These are practical, but POWERFUL, and down-right convicting, brothers:
1. It means not keeping yourself so busy with YOU and YOURS that you have no practical time to love others.
2. It means being committed to knowing people, because you can minister only in a very limited ways to those whom you do not know.
3. It means being willing to have your life complicated by the needs and struggles of others.
4. It means being willing to share your physical resources with others.
5. It means being willing to live with an open home.
6. It means being perseverant and patient even when the love you give is not returned.
7. It means actively looking for places where you can function as one of God’s tools of love.
8. It means resisting the temptation to be judgmental, self-righteous, and critical.
9. It means overlooking minor offenses and fighting the temptation to become bitter or cynical.
10. It means making life decisions out of a recognition of this inescapable call to love.
DIGGING DEEPER: Proverbs 27; Exodus 16-18; Matthew 18:1-20
DIG THIS QUOTE: The one who falls into sin is a human; the one who grieves at sin is a saint; the one who boasts of sin is a fool.
DETERMINED DIGGING: Level 1 — 2 Chronicles 7:14; Level 2 — Psalm 19

A Cross-Centered Love

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A Cross-Centered Love

“This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. This is love; not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we ought to love one another.” 1 John 4:9-11

I want to share a powerful teach from Dr. Paul David Tripp’s book, A BROKEN DOWN HOUSE — Living Productively in a World Gone Bad (Shepherd Press) on loving the way that God would have us love others. It is one of those very convicting studies that I needed to hear.

I will share this teaching the next couple of days. Listen in on what God is teaching ME:

God’s love is not like my love. He gives us the biblical model: God’s love rescues me from SELF-LOVE so that I will be able to love others …

“God knows that we are sinners, our first inclination in not to love others, but to love ourselves. Sin turns us in on ourselves. Sin causes us to be selfish, self-absorbed, and self-focused. Sin causes us to be obsessed with what WE want, what WE feel, and what WE think WE need.

Sin causes us to want to exist at the center of our own universe, having OUR feelings addressed, OUR wants satisfied, and OUR needs met. Sin makes us demanding and expectant, rather than serving and giving. So God has to rescue us from US. He has to free us from bondage to ourselves so that we can live for Him and for others.

And as He does this, God is not taking our humanity from us. You see, we were designed to love HIM and to love others. In progressively freeing us from sin, he is increasingly enabling us to live as we were created to live. And this is itself the happiest and satisfying way to live.



We are called to love in a “Cross-centered” way … willing self-sacrifice for the redemptive good of another.

We will unpack how this look over the next couple of days. Wow. I needed to hear this today. This exposes my heart and my need to love as Christ would have me love. That is only possible as Christ lives out HIS life through me. — Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s KESWICK

DIGGING DEEPER: Proverbs 26; Exodus 14-15; Matthew 17

DIG THIS QUOTE: The death of Jesus was a complete and full satisfaction of divine justice for all who trust in Him. At the cross there is no tension between justice and mercy; instead, they meet in full harmony. While mercy has full expression, justice has been honored and magnified. It has exacted its penalty and been completely satisfied. Therefore, as believers we can rejoice in the abundant mercy of God through Christ, while also fully honoring the inviolate nature of His holy justice. — Dr. Jerry Bridges

DETERMINED DIGGING: Level 1 — 2 Chronicles; Level 2 — Psalm 19

Ready, Willing, and Waiting

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Ready, Willing, and Waiting

” … and uphold me with a willing spirit.” Psalm 51:12

Yesterday we talked about revival and the fact that revival often starts in our own hearts. Over the past several months I have shared with you some insights gleaned from Dr. Paul Tripp’s book, WHITER THAN SNOW — Meditations on Psalm 51.

Today’s insight is a good follow-up to the topic of revival. Before we pray for the revival of our churches, or far greater, for America, I need to pray that God would revive MY heart … Dr. Tripps comments are powerful, convicting, but also daring:

Lord,
I think I can honestly say I am ready, willing, and waiting.
Ready, willing, and waiting to see MY sin as YOU see it.
Ready, willing, and waiting to acknowledge that I am my biggest problem.
Ready, willing, and waiting to run from wrong.
Ready, willing, and waiting to seek YOUR help.
Ready, willing, and waiting for my mind to be clear.
Ready, willing, and waiting for my heart to be clean.
Ready, willing, and waiting to acknowledge what YOU see.
Ready, willing, and waiting to rest in YOUR compassion.
Ready, willing, and waiting to hide in YOUR unfailing love.


I am ready, willing, and waiting to be washed by YOU.
Ready, willing, and waiting to admit that I acted against YOU.
Ready, willing, and waiting to prove that YOU are right and just.
Ready, willing, and waiting to confess MY problem is from birth.
Ready, willing, and waiting to examine within.

I am ready, willing, and waiting to be whiter than snow.
Ready, willing, and waiting to hear joy and gladness.
Ready, willing, and waiting for brokenness to give your way to joy.
Ready, willing, and waiting to have a steadfast heart.
Ready, willing, and waiting to celebrate Your life once more.

I am ready, willing, and waiting to teach others YOUR ways.
Ready, willing, and waiting to help them turn back to YOU.
Ready, willing, and waiting to have YOU save me from me.
Ready, willing, and waiting to sing songs of YOUR righteousness.

I am ready, willing, and waiting to declare YOUR praise.
Ready, willing, and waiting to bring the sacrifice of a broken heart.
Ready, willing, and waiting to see YOUR people prosper.
Ready, willing, and waiting to see YOU worshipped as is YOUR due.

But I am so ready, willing, and waiting to be protected by YOUR love.
Ready, willing, and waiting to be held by YOUR grace.
Ready, willing, and waiting to be hidden in YOUR mercy.
Ready, willing, and waiting to be defended by YOUR power.
Because I know that I won’t always be ready, willing, and waiting.

I ask myself the question, and you too … am I READY? WILLING? WAITING? to answer God’s call and to do His will? — Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s KESWICK

DIGGING DEEPER: Proverbs 25; Exodus 12-13; Matthew 15:21-39

DIG THIS QUOTE: Grace is God’s active favor bestowing the greatest gift upon those who have deserved the greatest punishment. – William Hendricksen

DETERMINED DIGGING: Level 1 — 2 Chronicles 7:14; Psalm 19

Revival Starts With You

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Revival Starts with You

“In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit.” Acts 2:17

Today is the Lord’s Day. My guess is that most of you will be gathering together to worship Him at your local church. So often we hear people pray that God will send forth revival. But what would we do if He did?

I love this old hymn that I learned as a kid at Second Mennonite Church in Philadelphia:

Lord, as of old at Pentecost you did Your power display,
With cleansing, purifying flame, Descend on us today!

Refrain
Lord, send the old-time power, the Pentecostal power!
Your floodgates of blessing on us throw open wide!
Lord, send the old-time power, the Pentecostal power,
That sinners be converted and Your name be glorified.


For mighty works for You, prepare and strengthen every heart.
Come, take possession of Your own, and nevermore depart.


All self consume, all sin destroy! With earnest zeal endue
Each waiting heart to work for You. O Lord, our faith renew!


Speak, Lord; before Your throne we wait.
Your promise we believe,
And will not let You go until the blessing we receive!!!

Do we believe that God CAN answer the cry of our hearts for revival in our day? Do we have the expectancy each Lord’s day that HE could break into our services in HIS way and in HIS power to move in our hearts?

Well guess what — remember this — revival may start with YOUR heart and mine! Are you and I ready for HIM to revive OUR HEARTS? — Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s KESWICK

DIGGING DEEPER: Proverbs 24; Exodus 9-11; Matthew 15:21-39

DIG THIS QUOTE: If on the 1st Sunday of the month, sin was preached, on the 2nd Sunday, the holiness of God and on the 3rd Sunday repentence, you would see a revival on the 4th Sunday. — David Wilkerson

DETERMINED DIGGING: Level 1 — 2 Chronicles 7:14; Level 2 — Psalm 19

Do You Need a Media Fast?

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Do You Need A Media Fast?

“Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy — meditate on these things. – Philippians 4:8

Have you ever stopped to think how many electronic toys we now have in our collections? Have you ever stopped to think how dependent we have become on technology to survive in this world we live in? We have bigger and faster computers. We have cell phones that keep us connected to the Internet 24 hours a day, seven days a week. There’s email, Facebook, Twitter.

We are so connected that sometimes we find ourselves just plain overwhelmed with our connectedness. And heaven forbid that the Internet goes down. We all freak out!!!

How many times a day do you check your email? Facebook? Twitter? Do you find yourself text messaging people even during Sunday morning worship? At Keswick we laugh (not really) about how many cell phones go off during a worship service — even at a Pastor’s conference. My goodness, one Pastor’s phone didn’t just go off in the service … he actually answered it!

Have you ever considered a “media fast?” Some of you might be starting to get the shakes just thinking about it, but seriously, Chuck D. Pierce, in his book, The Rewards of Simplicity (Revell) suggests six things to consider when doing a media fast:

1. If you are feeling motivated, try eliminating everything for a week. Of course, when I say everything, I do not mean you cannot check your email or use the Internet for work and essential research. But is the TV necessary? Just try life without it. You might like it.

2. If you are not ready to tackle a full week, just try one day without electronic media of any kind.

3. Choose one form of electronic media at a time and eliminate it for a day, two days, or even a week.

4. Once you choose an option, use the time normally spent on electronic media doing something completely different. For example, if you normally spend two hours watching TV in the evening, use that two hours to take a walk, prayer-walk your neighborhood or pick up a long-abandoned hobby.

5. Keep track of the time you reclaim from electronic media during your fast. I am always amazed at my options when I choose not to watch TV for an hour. Sometimes it is refreshing just to bask in the quiet for a little while!

6. Even if you return to your old habits, choose one day a week to fast from one or all types of electronic media. Many people do the same thing with a food fast for their intestinal health. It could not hurt you to give our overloaded senses a rest from all that information once a week!

Tomorrow is the Sabbath, so it might be a good day to start your fast! Even the Lord’s Day has become a day of work and connectedness instead of a day of rest. Use HIS day as a day to connect with Him and your family. Try it — you might like it! — Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s KESWICK

DIGGING DEEPER: Proverbs 23; Exodus 7-8; Matthew 15:1-20

DIG THIS QUOTE: Give us faith that will not worry, whine, or wrangle; but watches, works, waits, and warbles. Kenneth Moyer

DETERMINED DIGGING: Level 1: Joshua 1:8; Psalm 15

Recall What God Remembers

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Recall What God Remembers

“Thus says the Lord, ‘I remember … the kindness of your youth.’ — Jeremiah 2:2

Good morning. Wow — Have I been beat up this morning (spiritually)! This was one of those amazing times when all of my devotional readings all ended up saying the same thing. When that happens, one can either ignore it, or say, “Obviously I need to hear this!”

Have you ever noticed that we tend to remember what we should forget, and forget what we should remember? Well here are some questions and thoughts from the pen of Oswald Chambers (MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST) that are worth our consideration today:

1. Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me?

2.Does everything in my life fill His heart with gladness, or do I constantly complain because things don’t seem to be going my way? A person who has forgotten what God treasures will not be filled with joy. It is wonderful to remember that Jesus Christ has needs which we can meet— “Give Me a drink” (John 4:7).

3.How much kindness have I shown Him in the past week?

4. Has my life been a good reflection on His reputation?

God is saying to His people, “You are not in love with Me now, but I remember a time when you were.” He says, “I remember . . . the love of your betrothal . . .” (Jeremiah 2:2).

5.Am I as filled to overflowing with love for Jesus Christ as I was in the beginning, when I went out of my way to prove my devotion to Him?

6.Does He ever find me pondering the time when I cared only for Him?

7.Is that where I am now, or have I chosen man’s wisdom over true love for Him?

8.Am I so in love with Him that I take no thought for where He might lead me?

9.Or am I watching to see how much respect I get as I measure how much service I should give Him?

As I recall what God remembers about me, I may also begin to realize that He is not what He used to be to me. When this happens, I should allow the shame and humiliation it creates in my life, because it will bring godly sorrow, and “godly sorrow produces repentance . . .” (2 Corinthians 7:10).

Take some time to work through these questions today. Recall today what GOD remembers. — Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s KESWICK

DIGGING DEEPER: Proverbs 22; Exodus 4-6; Matthew 14:22-36

DIG THIS QUOTE: It would be easier, I sometimes think, if God had given us a set of ideas to mull over and kick around and decide whether to accept or reject. He did not. His gave us Himself in the form of a Person. Philip Yancey

DETERMINED DIGGING: Level 1: Joshua 1:8; Level 2: Psalm 15

God By Your Bed

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God By Your Bed
“Test me, O Lord, and try me, examine my heart and my mind … See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Psalm 26:2; 139:24)
When you read a verse like this and turn it into the prayer of your heart, do you expect that God will take you at your word? Do you believe that God is this intimately acquainted with YOU and EVERYTHING you think, say or do?
Here’s a good reminder from the pen of the famed preacher, John Wesley. It is powerful:
If you believe that God is by your bed as well as by your work place and that He observes all your actions, then take care not to do the least thing, not to speak the least word, not to indulge the least thought, that you think would offend Him.
Suppose an angel were now standing right next to you. Wouldn’t you take care to abstain from every word or action that you knew would offend him? Or suppose that a very godly man were to be watching you. Wouldn’t you be extremely cautious how you conducted yourself, both in word and action?
How much more cautious ought you to be when you know that not a godly man, not an angel of God, but GOD HIMSELF, the Holy One “who inhabits eternity,” is every moment inspecting your heart, your tongue, your hands! He Himself will surely bring you into judgment for all you think and speak and act.
Since there is not a word on your tongue nor a syllable you speak but HE “knows it COMPLETELY,” how careful you should be in setting a guard over your mouth and in keeping watch over the door of your lips! (Psalm 141:3) You should be cautious in all your conversations, for you have forwarned by your judge that “by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” (Matthew 12:37)
If God always sees our hearts as well as our hands; if He understands our thoughts long before they are clothed with words — then how earnestly we should echo the petition: “Test me, O Lord, and try me, examine my heart and mind; … see if there is ANY offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” (Psalm 26:2; 139:24) — from HOW GREAT THOU ART — Steve Halliday and William Travis (Multnomah)
Good reminder, brothers. He is the God who knows it all! That should impact the way we live our lives today! — Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s KESWICK

DIGGING DEEPER: Proverbs 21; Exodus 1-3; Matthew 14:1-21

DIG THIS QUOTE: We ought to so live our lives that we would not be afraid to sell the family parrot to the town gossip! — Chuck Swindoll

DETERMINED DIGGING: Level 1: Joshua 1:8; Level 2 — Psalm 15

Straight Outta Camden

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Straight Outta Camden!

“For the grace of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all people. And we are instructed to turn from godless living and sinful pleasures. We should live in this evil world with wisdom, righteousness, and devotion to God, while we look forward with hope to that wonderful day when the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, will be revealed. He gave His life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us his very own people, totally committed to doing good deeds.” Titus 2:11-14 (NLT)

STOP!!! Before you read this any further stop and say a pray for the “Addictions Victorious” ministry… Go ahead…I’ll wait……………..Amen!!

This past Saturday morning a good brother in Christ and myself went to a seminar hosted by “The Calvary Assembly of God” in Pennsauken, NJ. I had been looking forward to going to the “Addictions Victorious” seminar titled “Helping Others Change” but after getting lost in Camden (as it was waking up) and having to call my wife and ask her to use our Google Map program on the home computer to get me out of where I was (please don’t ask) all I wanted was a safe haven. This church was most definitely all that and then some. Pastor Glenn Marshall of the Park Avenue Community Church in Somerdale, NJ was the main speaker and Pastor Dan Astuto of the hosting church had closing remarks. I would like to borrow some of what they spoke on and give you my take on it.

“We are eager to wear an Eagles/Phillies jersey, so why is it hard to wear the character of Christ” OUCH!! I’m a fan of both teams but I proclaim Christ. And in that it is easy to indentify as an Eagle/Phillies fan but do I declare my identity in Christ? Here’s something I ponder…when these teams do not win the big games I am an irate fan. Am I this way when I ask Christ to show up for what I think is the big game and He has other plans? Here’s the bottom line: If you are going to serve Christ you must serve in His character, you must know the Way!! We should have suffering in common with Christ? Remember The Cross? OUCH!!!

Masterpiece in the Greek means “A product or creation with a designated purpose.” and in the NLT version of Ephesians this word is used in chapter 2:10. So if you have been made anew in Christ Jesus you can do the good things He planned for you long ago. If you’re one of the insecure, God can use you. When Moses doubted Moses (Exod. 4:10) God said “I’ll give you the words to say.” If you’re one of the unlikely, God can use you. When the obvious was in doubt (1 Sam. 16:6-7) God anointed a shepherd boy. If you are thinking you are a failure, God can use you.

Peter will always be known for two things. The first is taking his eyes off of the Savior when Jesus said “Come.” (Matt 14:28-29)And the second will be his denial of knowing Jesus after it was predicted (Luke 22:34, 60-62). This failure was used and turned around by God. Peter was restored by Jesus at the Sea of Galilee (John 21:17) “Feed my sheep.” And Peter went on after that to preach on the Day of Pentecost. “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know”(Acts 2:22)

I got lost in Camden and wasn’t too comfortable with it but had I not stepped out of the boat I would have never been blessed by these two Pastor’s. So Pastor Dan if you’re reading these, your right, “You have to step out to find out!!” SANTO!! — Chris Hughes is a graduate of the Colony of Mercy and a contributor to Freedom Fighter. Addiction Victorious is a ministry that America’s KESWICK loves and respects. Their Executive Director, Dan Gavin, is a graduate of the Colony of Mercy.

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DIGGING DEEPER: Proverbs 20; Genesis 49-50; Matthew 13:31-58

DIG THIS QUOTE: “Consider for a moment what we know about the early, apostolic model for the church. Take a look at the disciples Jesus chose. What a motley crew they were! Dirty, smelly fishermen. A tax collector. Not the kind of people we’d put in charge of the church. They had no formal education, no degrees, no credentials. They had only one claim for their authority—they’d been with Jesus. Their relationship with Jesus changed their lives. It gave them character. On this foundation, the church began. These weren’t perfect men. The women who surrounded Jesus weren’t perfect either. Far from it! But being with Him changed then forever. Oh, that we’d pray for and realize the same for our own lives.” “Reclaiming God’s Original Intent for the Church”
Wes Roberts and Glenn Marshall

DETERMINED DIGGING: Level 1 — Joshua 1:8 Level 2 — Psalm 15

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