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• Video of Abby 2008 – Opportunity to Have Faith In God During Tough Times

  In Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  I had the blessing of getting to share with our church family this morning about the many blessings God has showered on us during 2008.As I get older, as I write more, teach more, and hear from you more, I realize that very often God’s greatest blessings come during our times of greatest hardship. I had a few minutes allotted to convey this to our Christian family, and since a picture is worth a thousand words, I thought a video might be worth a million. So I spent a couple of hours putting one together. I hope you’ll take a few minutes to view it, send me an email (brent@brentriggs.com) with your questions, advice or other feedback. PS: WHAT ARE YOUR QUESTIONS FOR ME? Ask [...]

   

• Jesus – The Gold Medalist

  In Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  A reader wrote this kind note to me: You are quite amazing with the faith you demonstrate when things are out of your control. You make them seem (to some degree) as if they are in control: the control of the Almighty God. You should be in contention for a medal in life’s Olympics. – – – – – – – – – I certainly appreciate those kinds words, although I hardly live up to them. I feel I have very little faith. What appears to be faith is to me just a realization of God’s faithfulness. God has never failed me, so it’s easy to trust Him when things get tough. I’m not sure if that means I have faith or not, I just [...]

   

• New Years Resolution: No Harm – Part 4

  In Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  (Click here to search for all the posts in this series…) Joel 2:12 “Now, therefore,” says the Lord, “Turn to Me with all your heart…” (NKJV) Turning your whole heart toward God. A great New Year’s resolution; an even better daily resolution.We’ve looked at how turning to God with your whole heart involves a true and unfettered tearing up of your heart over the sin in your own life, and what sin does to all of our lives. It is not an external religious act, nor even a particular emotional response but a true response of the heart; an evaluation of what keeps us from God, a completely honest admission of everything in our life that is turned away from God instead of towards Him. [...]

   

• New Years Resolution: Don’t Tear Your Clothes – Part 3

  In Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  (Click here to search for all the posts in this series…) Joel 2:12 “Now, therefore,” says the Lord, “Turn to Me with all your heart…” (NKJV) Turning your whole heart toward God. A great New Year’s resolution; an even better daily resolution.That’s sounds good doesn’t it? A pretty good rah-rah devotional to start the year out. The only problem is, that rah-rah pep talks and emotional-willpower driven resolutions almost always end up as this year’s first failure and guilt trip. Or, if you’re like me, you’ve started and failed so many times, that the most you can conjure up anymore is a heavy sigh, an “oh well” and return to business as usual. Better luck next year.So let’s forget the pep rallies and cliches and [...]

   

• New Years Resolution: Turning Daily – Part 2

  In Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  (Click here to search for all the posts in this series…) Joel 2:12 “Now, therefore,” says the Lord, “Turn to Me with all your heart…” (NKJV) Yo-yo dieting. Broken resolve. Backsliding. Besetting sin. Falling away. Here we go again. Every person who gives even fleeting thought to what is important in life experiences the roller coaster of getting off track, and turning back towards what they know is better or right. Each person has a predisposition towards certain sins, specific tendencies and particular weaknesses that bring us to the point of needing to “turn” to some degree over and over throughout our life.For the Christian, this “turning” is obviously a need to turn away from what we’ve messed up or strayed into, and turn towards [...]

   

• New Years Resolution: Turn to God – Part 1

  In Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  (Click here to search for all the posts in this series…) Joel 2:12 “Now, therefore,” says the Lord, “Turn to Me with all your heart…” (NKJV) Every New Year brings endless resolutions, and a couple weeks later – endless broken resolutions. I think a big reason why is because the resolutions are often about temporal things, and not about what matters eternally. Or, if they are about God, the resolutions are made in haste, without understanding, or without counting the cost. Within a month, or even a week – sometimes by sunrise the next day – it’s back to business as usual.I’ve been thinking all day about what kind of New Year’s resolution would be meaningful and worthy of being kept. What would be a [...]