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October 24, 2016 in Learn by Jesse Horne 0 Comments

If Grace Is An Ocean.

I had a pretty awesome conversation with my wife the other day. She brought of this passage in Ephesians 2: 1-10: 1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following ...

October 20, 2016 in Learn by Jesse Horne 0 Comments

Partiality.

Lately I have been studying James…. again, LOL. It seems that I study this book a lot and EVERY TIME I am floored by the life in this letter. In Chapter 2 of James, we see him confront the sin of partiality. So what is partiality? This is how James describes it: James 2: 1-13 My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. 2 For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your ...

October 17, 2016 in Learn by Jesse Horne 0 Comments

The Widow Revealed.

Last lesson we talked about getting off the Axiom, stop being just a hearer and be a doer. At the end of Chapter 1 of James, we were given an example of a pure and undefiled religion before God, which was to visit orphans and widows. I want to follow up on that lesson to examine the large cultural problem, which I believe is still relevant today. In Mark 12, Jesus was being confronted by Pharisees and Herodians. The difference between these tw ...

October 13, 2016 in Learn by Jesse Horne 0 Comments

Get off the Axiom.

James 1:27 says this: Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. So all we have to do to have "pure and undefiled" religion before God is to visit orphans and widows? Is that what James is saying? Well, let's put this in the context of his complete thought. Just a few verses up, he asks us to be quick to hear, slow to speak an ...

October 4, 2016 in Learn by Jesse Horne 0 Comments

My Aching Head.

What does your spiritual walk look like on an "off" day? Do you know what I mean? I think everyone does... those days when you have a headache; those days when it's rainy and you just want to sleep; those days when the kids whine about EVERYTHING; those days when that one person in that one meeting just will not shut it! We have all been there, right? Be joyful always?? How?? My head hurts! My kids are nuts!! That guy is CHEWING WITH HIS MOUTH ...

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