Archive for "Apr 2008"

25.Apr.2008 Living life with bigness, capacity and passion

II Corinthians 6:11 – (the Message) – “I can’t tell you much I long for you to enter this wide open, spacious life. We didn’t fence you in. The smallness you feel comes from within you. Your lives aren’t small, but you’re living them in a small way. I am speaking as plainly as I [...]

18.Apr.2008 Jesus as the Gardner

John 15:1-6 – When we’re connected to the vine and growing from the vine we become round, plump, appealing and ready to pick. We should be the fruit that people want to take a big bite out of! Not the fruit that’s round, hard and stuck on the vine.
Being on the vine means that we’re [...]

16.Apr.2008 The Extent of Your Life is Determined by Your Vision

When we want God to move, we have to shift our minds off of the disaster and on to God. God will move on the disaster, but he is not the disaster. When we dwell on the pain and dwell on the negative, our minds go there. Half of the battle is in our minds. [...]

08.Apr.2008 Easter – Jesus Calls us by Name

John 20 – The story of Mary Magdelene discovering Jesus had resurrected.
There are several things about this event that are so powerful, that you have to look closely and read between the lines to find them.
The first is this: Mary Magdelene was a formerly troubled woman. Her mind had been “possessed by evil”. Once [...]