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The Journey Beyond

19/10/30 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

November 3, 2019

The Lord makes a journey prosperous. We can track temptation on short cut roads to eventual regret. But for the seeker of Heaven the trail of truth is not only more important; it is ultimately more rewarding.

Sin will offer you stopping points. Seductive settlements. Enthralling encampments. Rebellion residences. But nothing in this world compares to the glory that shall be revealed when Christ returns for the called, the chosen, and the faithful.

But we have to continue. We have to keep going with doctrine and scriptural instruction. We must push ahead when the journey seems pointless and too wearisome. Listen now…

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There is more Where that came From

19/10/23 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

October 27, 2019

The amazed disciples repeatedly received the miracle bread from Jesus’ hand. It kept coming. How could he get that much from five loaves and two fish? Jesus was reaching into a supernatural inventory. Be blessed it. He broke it. And he gave it to the disciples who gave to the crowd. Piece by piece it multiplied. And when they thought it might run out, there was more where that came from. Grace provisions far exceed earthly supplies. Human resources usually come to an end, spent and exhausted. We see this when fuel costs go up because of oil and gas shortages. We see this in the supermarket when certain items are marked up because the supply is diminished by storms or freezes or failed crops. We see this in the stock market because company performances wane or product development is slowed by regulations or terrorism in certain parts of the world enhance market fears. But on that sunlit afternoon with thousands huddled for dinner, an assembly line of bread and fish made it down to the last hungry mouth. My friend, if you think the God of that bread multiplying moment is retired, well, there is more where that came from…listen now.

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The Two Fortunes of the Promised Land

19/10/16 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

October 20, 2019

Seekers of fertile lands. Hope seekers of a peaceful home. 12 spies canvass the ordained territory. They are renowned. They are chosen. They are discernibly determined to bring back a thorough report. They will see the land promised to them.

Fallen limbs crunch beneath their methodical steps. They are camouflaged by green brush and wilderness growth. They are not sent to attack, but to attain. They will bring back a report. The wind howls among the distant rock formations of Abraham’s property, mountain ranges majestically inviting these explorers. They will hike twisting trails, sip from refreshing waterfalls, taste of grapes wildly grown in the delicious vale of Eschol. And it will be too irresistible not to take some samples back to their anxious brethren. Grape stains dot their sweaty clothes. They sport milk-staches. They laugh and ooh and aah at their surroundings.

But what looms on the horizon? What grows from the soil of impossibility, stretching toward the heavens with intimidating size? Gates. Iron fences. They gasp at the sight of them. These are barricades of hell before them. And if the gates have to be that large, who guards them, and what of their stature? How could they ever take these mountain folk; and then they get a view of the citizens. Armored guards stand like giants statues at the entrance of the gates; they are monstrous. These men had never seen such human beings? Could they be human? Legends abounded throughout the land of giants, but now the legends were visible, instantly haunting realities. Men with shoulders broader than any three Hebrew warriors, carrying swords apparently confiscated from angels; large and sharp, able to behead several opposing soldiers at once. When they step in the soft earth they leave pit like footprints. When they lean their weight against a tree it appears the aching trunk may snap like a twig. Maybe then one of the spies observed a nearby frog darting his tongue out to snatch up a helpless grasshopper, and a thought thunders in his imagination. Listen now…

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Not for Applause but for a Cause

19/10/02 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

October 6, 2019

Jesus walked onto the world stage. There was a curtain drawn before the foundation of the world. Those curtains unfurled across grueling ages of laws and prophets, of judges and kings, of good and evil. And when the Son of God was finally born, his lines too had been well scripted. For Jesus stated on several occasions, “What I do I do not of myself, but they are from my Father in Heaven.”

When he healed a sore riddled leper and solved the puzzled expression of the blind by giving them sight, he did it not for applause, but for a cause…listen now.

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