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Sunday Scripture

This morning I preached a sermon titled “Wisdom & Temptation”. Here are my highlights:

  • You’re gonna need God’s wisdom to make many of life’s decisions.
  • When you ask God for guidance, for direction, for wisdom, for a way forward – do not waver. Listen to the Lord. Trust in the Lord.
  • Admit that you need God. Say it out loud, “I NEED YOU GOD !”
  • God hates pride. It’s 1 of the 7 deadly sins, but it may be the worst of them all, as it causes all other sins.
  • God loves humility. Humility cures pride. Humility crushes egos. Humility opens hearts. Humility invites wisdom.
  • Wisdom is seeing life from God’s point-of-view.
  • God loves to give us wisdom. God is pleased when we are thankful. He loves to see His children showing trust and faith in Him. That’s how we worship God.
  • God’s trials will help you grow in faith. His trials make our faith stronger.
  • The devil’s temptations will cause you to sin. Sin separates us from God.
  • God is not responsible at all for the hate and evil in the world.
  • God is perfect in every way on every day. The devil is not. All evil comes from Satan.
  • Temptation is the work of the devil – and his dirty deeds – done dirt cheap.
  • The devil uses desire – which leads to deception – which causes disobedience – which leads to death.
  • The devil is real. The devil is a liar. The devil steals and kills and destroys.

Read James 1:2-8, 12-15; Proverbs 8:13, 11:2, 2:6, 9:11-12; Colossians 2:8; Hebrews 11:6; Deuteronomy 32:4; 1 Corinthians 10:13

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Christian God Music Radio

The Major’s Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2008

  1. Friend Like That – Hawk Nelson
  2. Southern Weather – The Almost
  3. I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead – The Wedding
  4. Medicine – The Fold
  5. Casting Off – This Beautiful Republic

These were my Top 5 hits exactly 10 years ago this weekend – Sunday March 02ND 2008.

I loved The Wedding as a baby Christian a decade ago. Their hits “Morning Air” (# 2 in 2007), “Say Your Prayers” (# 2 in 2007), “Staring At The Light” (# 1 in 2007), “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead” (# 3 in 2008), “Receive” (# 20 in 2008), and “Return” (#3 in 2009) rocked my face off back then with their fusion of pop, punk, and rock celebrating God’s Glory.

Next Friday night I’ll take RETRO back another 10 years to March of 1998 – back when I had no clue about God.

I’m preaching a full sermon to my church family this Sunday. I’ve got the sermon written. I just need to spend tonight and much of tomorrow editing, enhancing, and rehearsing it. I’ll share some of it with you this Sunday here on my blog.

To all of my new readers and followers worldwide I thank you so much for spending some of your time reading about my fantastic journey. My life changed forever during the 3RD week of August of 2006, and I wish to testify and preach about it for the rest of my days here on Earth.

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The Major’s Top 10 Hits – Week 54

  1. “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha Cobbs Leonard [# 1 last week / 11TH week on chart]
  2. “Bleed The Same” – Mandisa Ft. TobyMac [2 / 12TH]
  3. “No One Like Our God” – Lincoln Brewster [3 / 7TH]
  4. “Come To The Table” – Sidewalk Prophets [5 / 4TH]
  5. “Resurrection Power” – Chris Tomlin [6 / 3RD]
  6. “When We Pray” – Tauren Wells [8 / 3RD]
  7. “Fear Is A Liar” – Zach Williams [7 / 3RD]
  8. “Miracle” – Unspoken [4 / 10TH]
  9. “Witness” – Jordan Feliz [9 / 5TH]
  10. “Masterpiece” – Danny Gokey [10 / 7TH]

No new entries this week, and it’s a slow chart week with 6 non-movers.

So I discovered Christian music on the radio back during the Summer of 2006. It’s what God used to rescue and save me. My salvation began the moment I switched over my car radio to The Call FM (91.7) here in South Florida – not knowing that it was a Christian pop, rock, and hip hop radio station. At that time I didn’t even know what salvation was.

Prior to my rebirthing 11½ years ago I was a secular TOP 40 music zealot. That era pretty much spanned over 35 years – going back to my early childhood. For a couple of years during the early-2000s I got in to the electronic dance music scene, and my weekly personal hit music chart morphed in to a pure dance music chart – saturated with trance and techno hits from around the world. That was fun – for a season.

Nowadays God is in control of my life, and my favorite music is of The Truth.

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Bible Christian God Scripture

Sunday Scripture

Starting with this edition I’d like to start something new on Sundays. I’d like to share Scripture with you that I shared with my church family earlier in the day.

Every Sunday I open our service with Scripture and Prayer, and I close our service the same way. I also bring forward and pray over our Tithes & Offerings. I lead Communion every first Sunday of the month. About once per month (usually on the first Sunday of the month) I preach full sermons. I’m currently working on a new sermon that I’ll be preaching probably next Sunday. It’s the 2ND sermon of an evolving message series I’m working on out of the Book Of James. It’s tentatively titled “Wisdom & Temptation”.

This week I preached this from Psalm 145:1-3 (NLT):

I will exalt You – my God and King – and I will praise Your name forever and ever. I will praise You every day. Yes – I will praise You forever. Great is the LORD !  He is most worthy of praise !  No one can measure His greatness.