Partners
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May 2019 – Partner Update
Dear Partners, Through your gifts you and I together are loving people to life. Thank you for the outpouring of your love in your letters cards and gifts to help at this time of many expenses. I had planned to respond to each one of you but more and more kept coming and I think it would take many weeks to answer each one individually as I intended, but let me say to all of you THANK YOU! I have felt the arms of your prayers and blessings surrounding and upholding me through these weeks. My message this week turns our attention to the...
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Dear Partners, Through your gifts you and I together are loving people to life. As I am sure most of you have heard, my wife Nancy passed into the presence of the Lord on Resurrection Sunday morning. At the time of preparing this partner letter and message I am unable to express my feelings – I am still in shock and feeling the vast emptiness of life going on without her. She was not only my wife but best friend and co-laborer together in this ministry, living unconditional love as she watched over all of the running and planning of the...
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Dear Partners, Through your gifts you and I together are loving people to life. I have revisited a text that has blessed us in the past for this month’s message, the fact that we are His workmanship. The fascinating truth is that He is the artist, the maker, the one who fashions and sculpts our lives. He makes us according to the pattern who is Jesus. I believe that this message will activate desires of the Spirit in you to live to the fullest as Christ in this world. April is a very full month for me and for all the staff who are involved...
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Dear Partners, Through your gifts you and I together are loving people to life. I have been fascinated in the last days with 1 John 4:19 – where we are assured that He is always first in love – we do not have to awaken Him or activate Him by doing something we believe will impress Him! His love simply is and therefore always first initiating His desire and determination to have us in real and functional fellowship with Himself. This means that there is no anxiety in our relationship with Him; we never are plagued by wondering if we have...
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Dear Partners, Through your gifts you and I together are loving people to life. May the blessing of the Lord be rich in your lives as we move into this year! My first message to you this year is to emphasize the heart of this message that we understand as the Gospel – the love of God our life, nourishment, empowerment to live – has come to us and into us from the Father in Jesus through the Holy Spirit dwelling in us. This is the mystery of the divine love walking our streets and workplaces in us today. But my emphasis is on our...
read moreNovember/December 2018 – Partner Update
Dear Partners, Through your gifts you and I together are loving people to life. We have just returned from the retreat in Kerrville, TX where we had one of the best retreats in memory. Half of the retreaters were introduced to the love of God in the last six months! They came desperate for more of God, sitting like open-mouthed baby birds to receive all the Spirit had for them. Those who have been in this way of life for some time found ample opportunity to share and pray with them. And speaking of prayer, we had some who experienced healing...
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Dear Partners, Through your gifts you and I together are loving people to life. Hello Partners, Fall is upon us! Here in Texas we were washed into Fall with storms and torrential rain that has given us the wettest September in the history of San Antonio! We thank the Lord that the flooding on the ranch was minimal although flooded roads had us close our Sunday service. It did not interfere with our Bible school module 6. It is the module that draws the entire course together and this one will stand out as the weekend that really did change...
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Dear Partners, Through your gifts you and I together are loving people to life. Hello Partners, One of the most well-known words of Jesus – “I am the vine… you are the branches” contains the heart of the life transforming message of the good news. In this month’s message I explain and apply the truth of these words. I want you to hear this message as the word of truth concerning who you are. Our identity is not in our feelings that change from moment to moment or in what I may be presently doing but in the word from God in...
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Dear Partners, Through your gifts you and I together are loving people to life. The revelation that changed my life and set the course of this ministry decades ago was that God is love and He is the God of grace – love and grace are the words we use to describe who God is and is the reason the message is called Gospel or good news – the most wonderful news you have ever heard. I am asking the question in this month’s message “What is grace?” Many who enjoy the grace would find it difficult to define and explain what they mean by...
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Dear Partners, Through your gifts you and I together are loving people to life. I am sharing this month from one of the most well-known texts in the Scripture – John 3:16. It is one of the texts that gave the revelation of God’s love that fashioned this ministry to the world. The love of God is not the latest version of human love! Nor is it human love on steroids! God’s love is completely other than human love and originates in the heart of God coming into the human situation in and through Jesus. The wonder of our salvation is that we...
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