Month: December 2016

Genesis 15 – The Power of Believing

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In the Star Wars movie “The Empire Strikes Back,” the Jedi master Yoda raises Luke Skywalker’s ship out of the Dagobah swamp using nothing but the force. Stunned by the feat, Luke exclaims, “I don’t believe it!” To which Yoda responds, “That is why you fail.”
Yoda’s words are not only a rebuke to Luke Skywalker but to all who hear them. So often we fail to achieve because we fail to believe.
The importance of belief is key to Genesis chapter 15. In this chapter, God promises Abram generations of descendants and a land to call his own, but Abram was an elderly, childless vagabond with no land to his name. There was absolutely no visible reason to believe what God had told him.
Still, Abram chose to believe God over his circumstances. He chose to trust more in what God said than in what he (Abram) saw. Genesis 15:6 NLT says, “Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD counted him righteous because of his faith.”
Abram believed what God said, and it unleashed a power greater than any lightsaber. Nothing changed immediately, but everything changed completely.
How would your life be different if you really believed what God has told you? What freedom would you know and what power would be unleashed if you trusted God completely?
Bret Legg is the Teaching and Counseling Pastor at Warren Baptist Church in Augusta, GA.

A Quiet Christmas

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It’s Christmas morning 2016, and I’m up early. Not because there are children clambering to open presents, but because I received the gift of a sinus infection and my head couldn’t take being horizontal any longer.

Actually, the days of clambering and chaos on Christmas morning are gone for my wife and me. We are now moving into the quiet Christmas years.

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How to Remove That Fishy Smell in Marriage

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In my last Normal Marriage post, I talked about the fishy smell that occurs in marriage when you run away from something you know you need to do. In that post, we talked about how to avoid that fishy smell.

But what if you didn’t get the post in time and your marriage already smells fishy? How do you remove the smell?

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How to Avoid that Fishy Smell in Marriage

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Even if you’re not particularly religious, you’re probably familiar with the biblical story of Jonah.

Jonah was a guy who didn’t want to do what God wanted him to do. God wanted Jonah to go to the Ninevites (the ruthless and bloody enemy of his people) and encourage them to change their ways and turn to God. It would be like God asking you to go to ISIS to tell them, “God loves you and you need to convert to Christianity.”

Jonah didn’t want this suicide mission, because Jonah hated the Ninevites and didn’t want God to go easy on them. So Jonah ran.

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