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THE ONE THING THAT MATTERS THE MOST: Fullness of Life … Forever

August 3, 2025 by Eddie Leave a Comment

After working hard on a project or an investment proposal, and you’re competing with others for funding, and after having worked so hard, and put in so much time and energy and all your resources into this final bid, confident that you have THE winning solution … imagine hearing these words: ‘You’ve done well … but you forgot the one thing that matters most. So sorry for you.’”

How would you react? All that effort wasted. Sayang. If you only knew THAT ONE THING that mattered, you would have considered and prioritized that in your proposal, right? Or, worse. What if you knew about it, but you didn’t think it was a big deal.

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JESUS DIDN’T COME TO JUDGE — But Are You Judging Him?

July 4, 2025 by Eddie Leave a Comment

You’ve probably heard it said that Jesus didn’t come to judge us. But have you ever considered that we might be the ones judging Him?”

In Matthew 9:9-13, Jesus calls a tax collector named Matthew. Now, tax collectors worked for the Romans, back then. They weren’t just disliked — they were hated by everyone, and considered traitors and thieves. But Jesus doesn’t hesitate. He says, “Follow me.” And Matthew does.

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SEVERELY SHORT-SIGHTED — That’s Why We Need A Shepherd

June 27, 2025 by Eddie Leave a Comment

What if you couldn’t see more than 10 feet in front of you, and that everything beyond that is totally blurry? That would be very hard to do anything useful on your own, right? Fortunately, God has gifted us with eyesight that can see, at best, up to 250 feet clearly.

But sheep aren’t so lucky. They literally are short-sighted, and cannot see beyond 10 to 15 feet in front of them. They have very wide vision, like a super-wide-angle lens; and this is because their eyes are on opposite sides of their head. But still, they cannot see far. They’re easily distracted, but they hardly have any idea where they are or where they’re going. That is why sheep have a notorious reputation for going astray, and just wandering around and often getting lost. And Jesus had several parables about sheep getting lost, like for example in Luke 15:3-7, where He talks about a shepherd going after the one lost sheep.

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DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU’RE GOING TO?

June 12, 2025 by Eddie Leave a Comment

You know, if you ask me, I don’t think the Pharisees were bad people. I think they meant well. But they just didn’t get it right, even though they seemed pretty convinced that they were on the right track and that they were doing the right things. That’s what I think. Maybe it got to their head, and they felt superior, and they didn’t expect anybody to know better than them. But can you blame them? I mean they studied scripture, they followed tradition, they had strict code of conduct and rules, and they were careful to observe them. Scrupulous, even. Right?

But it took Jesus to point them out to everyone and said, on so many occasions, “Don’t be like the Pharisees.” One of those occasions, we find in the opening of Matt 5:20-26, where Jesus says, “Unless your righteousness surpasses those of the Pharisees you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.” And after saying that, Jesus started giving examples after examples of the things that changed the way people viewed about what it takes to enter the kingdom of heaven.

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HAVE COURAGE — Serving Jesus Means Going to War

May 26, 2025 by Eddie Leave a Comment

There’s something striking about the way Jesus invites people to serve Him. You’d think He would try to make it sound attractive — easy, comfortable, maybe even rewarding in material ways. But He doesn’t. He doesn’t sugarcoat it. He doesn’t promise smooth sailing.

In John 16:1–4, Jesus is giving instructions about what He expects His disciples to do after He leaves. He expects that they will continue to promote the kingdom of God, but He warns them and says: “They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.” And then He says: “I have told you this so that you will not fall away.”

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