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Your Mother Surpasses Them All!

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Happy Son-Day and Happy Mothers' Day First Bass Your Mother Surpasses Them All! Isaiah 66:13  As a mother comforts her child, I will comfort you.   I must confess my sin.  I am jealous of the love, adoration, care, and attention mothers get on their day.  Not because they're undeserving and lavished with gifts and pampering all day.  It's because Father's Day is not the same. And it should not be.  Other than the gender, there is a stark difference in the love a mother gives a child as opposed to what father gives.  Viva la difference.  Notice in the opening scripture above the prophet Isaiah did not reference a comforting father.  I am not saying a man cannot provide comfort, but we have to work at.   Sadly, the people we are trying to comfort can tell our effort is not as organic as from a mother. A mother's comfort is welcomed warmth that soothes to the bone.  All the pain and stiffness from the cold harsh reality melts...
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Is It Football Season Yet - Loving Yourself with a Little Self-Indulgence

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Happy Son-Day!   Feliz Cinco De Mayo A Host of Fun Is It Football Season Yet - Loving Yourself  with a Little Self-Indulgence  The base scripture:  love your neighbor as you  love yourself  (Matthew 22:39) .   This series of messages is about loving the many facets of yourself so that you can love others better than yourself. Philippians 2:3-4 3: Don't be jealous or proud; be humble and consider others more important than yourselves. 4 Care about them as much as you care about yourselves . Caring about yourself is permissible.  This can get lost when in our love for others.  We can love so hard that our tank storing your selfless ability runs low.  To resupply it, sometimes you need to do for yourself.  Indulge yourself. Doing for yourself does not need to be expensive.  It means reading a good book, watching a movie, listening to tunes, napping, gaming, traveling, hiking, and working on your hobbies.  ...
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Conditioning through Weight Lifting

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Happy Son-Day,  The start of something special for you Nothing but the Good News is posted here. An Anie-mazing Time Conditioning through Weight Lifting My emphasis during the Easter season was about . . . Love your neighbor as you love yourself (Matthew 22:39) .  For the Pentecost season, which runs through Sunday, June 8th, the focus will be on loving yourself.  I have a saying about the well-being of others: "A healthy you translates to a healthy us." If life's weights encumber us and impede our ability to love others effectively, as Christ directs us, we must shed those weights.  Don't admire it. Don't wallow in it. Hebrews 12:1 Let us l ay aside every weigh t that hinders and the sin that so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. The directive is clear.  We must be in good standing with ourselves. God knows all of your issues . . .   Psalm 56:8 God keeps a record of your sorrow and tears. God ...
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What Really Matters

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 Happy Son-Day, Happy Easter!! Good News Always Served Here The Day Jo and I Tried Korean Pot AKA K-Pot What Really Matters I wish you all a Happy Easter today.  This is my favorite holiday of the year.  The thought of the Resurrection always invigorates and inspires me about my most cherished relationship.  This lump of coal is being formed and polished every day.   It also makes me remember the other relationships I cherish, namely YOU .  Such a privilege! I recount this Pauline thanksgiving passage of divine and earthly relationships.  It points to the joy, renewal, fellowship, friendship, and deep change.   Do me a solid.  Below, insert your NAME where the word "you" or "your" is highlighted .   Philippians 1:3-11 3 Every time I think of you , I give thanks to my God. 4 Whenever I pray, I make my requests for all of you with joy, 5 for you have been my partners in spreading the Good News about Christ from the time you ...
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Vigil of Hope for Maurice

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 Happy Son-Day - Holy Week is here Always Good News served here. This week's blog devoted to Maurice Marable's vigil of hope.  Below is highlights from yesterday.  Continue to keep hope afloat.  You guys are an inspirational family!  Thank you. Vigil of Hope for Maurice
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Accentuate the Christ Love

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Happy Son-Day!!! 55 degrees. Shorts Weather Nothing But Good News here. Interesting Eats! Accentuate the Christ Love Recently, I was commuting with a friend on a western a twin city county road.    We were discussing a taboo topic, politics. You know how that goes.  Sometimes a good discussion and oftentimes it's not.  We both agreed helping people in this country seems now seems to be frown on by many. He said the reduction in helping people is being done by Christians (with an emphasis on the last word in the sentence).  Yikes! Some people get breaks and many don't.  The tone now by society is to grab your bootstraps and start hoisting, otherwise, "tough luck". Now, I am not a bleeding-heart liberal.  I firmly believe in  2 Thessalonians 3:10   We gave you a rule. We said, “A nyone who won’t work shouldn’t be allowed to eat.”   Proverbs 14:23 All hard work pays off .  But if all you do is talk, you will be poor.   Proverbs 10...
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Love for the Least

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Good Son-Day!!!  Rockin' Robins are Singing Outside Our Bedroom Window! A Spring Burst of Color  Love for the Least Last week, the topic covered giving and volunteering.  They are attributes cherished by God.  Before I move forward, I just want to mention as men of God we sometimes miss the mark.  What has gone viral on the Net in recent days is Marvin Sapp's directive to church ushers to close sanctuary exits to parishioners during the offering to collect $40K.  The optics of this entire video of the event were not good. He has rightfully received plenty of backlash.  Actions like this reflect terribly on pastors who are doing right by God.  More importantly, it can cause a person to fall.  Something no pastor in their right faith would want to see happen.  Last week, I referenced the scripture.   Matthew 10:8:  "Freely you have received;  freely give ." The passage fully speaks for itself.  "Nuff said!" Now, th...
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