Author: Scott

Matthew 13:44 The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. What would you give to live rightly and be free from your defects?  What would you give to be…
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Matthew 13:31,32 The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree… Jesus here, provides me with a painful but much…
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Matthew 13:15 For this people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them. I don’t have a problem! Almost everyone who…
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Matthew 13:3,7,22 A sower went out to sow… Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them… this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. There are times when I must search to…
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Matthew 12:48-50 “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” …And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.” My parents came to visit last night.  As we had…
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Matthew 12:38,39 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign but no sign will be given…” When I was young, I prayed many times for God to prove himself to me. …
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Matthew 12:33-35 …the tree is known by its fruit… The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. A friend recently asked me how I found time to process the blog every day.  What popped into my head was, You have no…
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I am excited to announce an upcoming men’s retreat at Living Hope Church in Willmar, Minnesota on Saturday, January 28th.  This retreat is designed to explore our condition as Christians who still struggle with our human (flesh) nature.  We all have some defect with which we wrestle and which causes some destruction in our lives. …
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Matthew 12:31,32 …Every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven… whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven… Have you, like me, ever feared that you are, in the end, unforgivable?  Whether it is a painfully public failure or deep dark secrets locked…
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Matthew 12:7  I desire mercy, and not sacrifice… How do I know if someone is a Christian?  What does that look like?  I have mistakenly thought that what set me apart as a Christian was all the stuff I did not do.  I could point to a list of things I refrained from, which I…
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