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	<description>2 Timothy 2:2 Disciples of Jesus Christ</description>
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		<title>Fearing Man</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Hershey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Bible has much to say about fearing God. In fact, the command to fear God is mentioned over 100 times throughout Scripture. But what does the Bible say about fearing man?

“And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:28).

In 1 Samuel 15, we see an example of what happens when we fear man instead of God. In the beginning of the chapter, God gives King Saul clear instructions to “strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have” (v3). Saul was not to spare anyone or anything - no person, no animal. Saul and the army of Israel do in fact defeat Amalek, but they took King Agag alive rather than killing him and they took the best of the sheep, oxen, fattened calves, and lambs.

In v. 11, God speaks to Samuel and says that he regrets making Saul king because “he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments.” When Samuel confronts Saul the next day, Saul speaks first and says that he has performed the commandment of the Lord. When Samuel questions him, Saul defends his actions by saying that it was so they could offer sacrifices to God. Samuel reiterates the clear command that God gave to Saul - destroy everything. Once again, Saul then defends his actions as to why he did not obey God’s instructions.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Two Lives</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Gustafson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life “(John 6:63).

God has structured our existence with two lives:  1) the one that finds our hope in what we see, feel and experience in this lifetime and 2) the life of the Spirit, one characterized by a hope in the unseen. 

The first is a temporary hope because all that is seen eventually vanishes or rots away.  As a result, it is a hope that cannot be fulfilled.  Ironically, it is embraced and encouraged by the world and claims to reward those that seek it.  

It has an end.  It is dead (spiritually).  It leads to death (physically).  It is used by Satan to entice us and to deceive us.  It seems right but does not satisfy—It leaves us always wanting more.

 “There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death” (Proverbs 14:12).

In the end, this temporal life disappoints.  It is empty, void of any legitimate hope and meaningful purpose.   Ecclesiastes describes it as vanity, it is like a wasteland.  It promises much, but delivers only enough to keep you pursuing. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Humility and Gentleness</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Ramey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Walk in a manner worthy of the calling” is the call to believers out of Ephesians 4:1-8. We have a duty to uphold, being adopted sons of God and imitators of Christ.

Humility is freedom from pride and arrogance. However, it is not thinking poorly of ourselves. Instead, humility is the recognition that everything we have comes from God, that we are sinners saved by grace, that we are not superior to others, and that God is the ultimate authority—not us. Humility must be learned, because our natural instinct is often to exalt ourselves.

Philippians 2:3–8 gives a clear example of this humility in Christ. Paul tells believers to do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but to regard others as more important than themselves.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cease Striving</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Craig McAndrews]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For most of my adult life, I have been a striver. I wanted to excel at work. In leadership. In health. In every measurable category available to me. If there was a scoreboard, I wanted to be winning. Success was tangible. It could be tracked. And over time, I accumulated some wins. But with each win came reinforcement of a definition of success shaped more by the world than by Scripture.  I believed the gospel. I believed salvation was by grace.

Yet I often lived as though approval—God’s and everyone else’s—still depended on my performance. Paul’s question to the Galatians challenges me: “Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?” (Galatians 3:3).

Much of my striving wasn’t ambition. It was fear. Fear of failure. Fear of letting people down. Fear that if I stopped producing, I might matter less. Striving feels noble when people depend on you. As men, we are called to work, to lead, to take responsibility. Those are good and biblical callings.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Insincerity and Lying (by Walt Henrichsen)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[MIMADMIN]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work today in my vineyard. He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, 'The first." Matthew 21:28-31

In the closing days of our Lord's ministry, prior to His crucifixion, Matthew records this parable given to the Jewish religious establishment. The Savior follows the parable with the following application: "Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you. that the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it. repented not afterward that ye might believe him"(1)

As you can see, the application centers on the response of the second son. He said he would obey his father. but did not. Was this son insincere, or was he lying?]]></description>
		
		
		
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