Monthly Archives: July 2024

Thank God For Broccoli

Posted on July 31, 2024 by pastorjeffsneighborhood

Our freedom in Christ may lead to differing convictions on some issues. These should not be a source of disunity in the body of Christ. Flaunting our freedom before someone with differing convictions would also be wrong. Continue reading →

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Starting and Finishing Well

Posted on July 30, 2024 by pastorjeffsneighborhood

Lofty thoughts of God led to his success. Lofty thoughts about himself led to his downfall. Continue reading →

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Medium Rare or Well Done?

Posted on July 29, 2024 by pastorjeffsneighborhood

Open your heart to Jesus today, give yourself fully to him—all of you—don’t hold anything back.  Then someday you’ll hear those words we all want to hear: “Well done.” Continue reading →

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I Stand in Awe

Posted on July 28, 2024 by pastorjeffsneighborhood

God’s plan is sometimes difficult to understand. Especially when we try to figure out how he’s “working all things together for good.” There’s a lot of mystery there. Some things are beyond our knowing.. Continue reading →

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What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do

Posted on July 27, 2024 by pastorjeffsneighborhood

They stood and waited. They listened. They prayed. They stood firm in faith. They praised. Sing loud and see the deliverance God brings! Continue reading →

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The Agony and the Ecstasy

Posted on July 26, 2024 by pastorjeffsneighborhood

Intercession is both agony and ecstasy—both deep struggle and “joy unspeakable and full of glory” (1 Peter 1:8). Open your heart to Jesus, feel the burdens of his heart and allow him to teach you to pray. He has much to teach you. The ecstasy makes all the agony worthwhile. Continue reading →

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Time After Time

Posted on July 25, 2024 by pastorjeffsneighborhood

We are forgetful people and our forgetfulness keeps us from trusting God fully. Is he not faithful, even when we are faithless? Is he not powerful, even when we are powerless? Is he not loving and gracious? Is he not good? He has demonstrated these qualities in our lives over and over again. Yet we so quickly forget. Continue reading →

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Nothing Can Separate Us From His Love!

Posted on July 24, 2024 by pastorjeffsneighborhood

Because God loves me, I can endure the present sufferings knowing, that they “are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.” Continue reading →

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Revival: Do We Really Want It?

Posted on July 23, 2024 by pastorjeffsneighborhood

In the abstract, everyone seems to want revival. Who wouldn’t want the church to be growing, exciting and alive? Who doesn’t want to see lives transformed by powerful encounters with the manifest presence of God? But when you get specific, few seem willing to pay the price. Revival would be wonderful, but it is costly. Continue reading →

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No Condemnation

Posted on July 22, 2024 by pastorjeffsneighborhood

“No Condemnation” (8:1)! Yet many of us carry around a load of shame, guilt and condemnation. Continue reading →

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