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Sanctified - Clean Hands Pure Heart

The Reunion Community

Aug 30, 2020
6 min

Sanctified - Clean Hands Pure Heart

We have learned the Holy Spirit calls us and draws us into the presence of God as His Sanctified people. Yet, King David wrote, “only those with clean hands and pure heart can enter.” We want to follow the Holy Spirit’s call to be set apart for the will and purpose of God. We want to be drawn in by the Spirit to God’s Sanctified presence. But we think, “my hands are not clean, and my heart is not pure.” How do we account for our condition? How do we atone for our transgressio

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Sanctified - Elevating Your Game

The Reunion Community

Aug 23, 2020
7 min

Sanctified - Elevating Your Game

Psalm 15:1-5 Who may worship in your sanctuary, LORD? Who may enter your presence on your holy hill? 2 Those who lead blameless lives and do what is right, speaking the truth from sincere hearts. 3 Those who refuse to gossip or harm their neighbors or speak evil of their friends. 4 Those who despise flagrant sinners, and honor the faithful followers of the LORD, and keep their promises even when it hurts. 5 Those who lend money without charging interest, and who cannot be bri

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Sanctified - The Holy Spirit as a Kinetic Force

The Reunion Community

Aug 16, 2020
7 min

Sanctified - The Holy Spirit as a Kinetic Force

Clearly the Holy Spirit is the kinetic force (purposeful-active-movement) of Sanctification. And clearly that is a process that leads us to those ever-important Sanctified moments and God-purposed events. How do we get there? To His followers Jesus said that He would to go to the Father, for the divine purpose of sending to us His ongoing and unending Presence. The Presence of God in Christ Jesus would now move and become active in us through the person of the Holy Spirit - t

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Sanctified - Starting the Process

The Reunion Community

Aug 9, 2020
10 min

Sanctified - Starting the Process

Biblical Text: 2 Kings 23, 24 Judges 13 John 15 Themes: Purging the Household of Faith - Reclaiming Covenant with God. Destroying and Rejecting all Man-Made and Profane Worship. Calling and Process of Setting Apart: Consecrating/Re-consecrating for the Purposes, Will, and Worship of God Alone. Profile Story #1: Josiah and Hilkiah 2 Chronicles 34:1-7 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. 2 And he did what was right in

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Sanctified: Set Apart for the Will and Purposes of God for Such a Time as This

The Reunion Community

Aug 4, 2020
13 min

Sanctified: Set Apart for the Will and Purposes of God for Such a Time as This

Introduction: The generic meaning of sanctification or to be sanctified is “the state of proper functioning.” I like that definition - it is a personal aspiration. But then I thought if I use that one, I might not ever be considered as sanctified. So, decided to dig deeper - thank God. Since we are going to dig, our first task is to clearly define the meaning of the term - Sanctified. And, from those biblical definitions and meanings we can then identify the biblical context

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Our God of Peace

The Reunion Community

Jul 26, 2020
15 min

Our God of Peace

INTRO: Violent. Racist. Afraid. Hateful. Divided. Tense. Hurt. Sick. Dangerous. Deceitful. Malicious. These are probably some of the most accurate words that describe our world today. These are the words that describe what we are feeling and experiencing in America today. In this setting we are losing or have already lost one of our most important aspects of life, and that is peace. Of course, I am not talking about the kind of peace that comes from the fact that everything

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E-34: The Righteous Rescue

The Reunion Community

Jul 5, 2020
8 min

E-34: The Righteous Rescue

E-34:17-24 And as for you, my flock, this is what the Sovereign LORD says to his people: I will judge between one animal of the flock and another, separating the sheep from the goats. 18 Isn’t it enough for you to keep the best of the pastures for yourselves? Must you also trample down the rest? Isn’t it enough for you to drink clear water for yourselves? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet? 19 Why must my flock eat what you have trampled down and drink water you have

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E-34: Template for the Righteous Shepherd

The Reunion Community

Jun 28, 2020
6 min

E-34: Template for the Righteous Shepherd

[Part 3 - Template for the Righteous Shepherd] E-34 Text [34:11-16] The word of God delivered through the voice and obedience of Ezekiel is the final word to the shepherds of the house of Israel and Judah. NEARLY FIVE CENTURIES of rebellious and unrighteous leadership from all but handful of kings and leaders. Leading and living by their own standard of what was right - abandoning God's template for righteous leadership of His people. There is quite a bit here to process. Her

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E-34: God's Heart for the Righteous Shepherd

The Reunion Community

Jun 21, 2020
7 min

E-34: God's Heart for the Righteous Shepherd

Today we are continuing E-34. As last week we are still using a pretty narrow biblical context to establish a broader personal application. Two things we can start with today. One - We know that Ezekiel (historically speaking) was not actually writing to us, or about us. Two - His prophetic words and visions finally got on to some form of parchment around 570 B.C. Here is why that is important. Because under the direction of God's Spirit, Ezekiel was writing directly FOR us.

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E-34: The Right Shepherd

The Reunion Community

Jun 14, 2020
9 min

E-34: The Right Shepherd

Introduction We are beginning a new series entitled E-34: The Right Shepherd - The Righteous Shepherd. The foundation for this teaching is taken from the bible's Old Testament section, from the book of the prophet Ezekiel. Ezekiel's historical context is this. He was the son of a second-generation priest taken captive and exiled in 597 BC, when the armies of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, captured the entirety Jerusalem, during a brief siege. Also taken captive and exiled f

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It's Just Time Part 8: Fulfillment and Finish - Calling and Mission

The Reunion Community

Jun 7, 2020
9 min

It's Just Time Part 8: Fulfillment and Finish - Calling and Mission

Ezekiel Historical Context Ezekiel was the son of a second-generation priest named Buzi - cool name. He was taken captive in 597 BC, when the armies of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, captured Jerusalem during a brief siege. Also taken captive were Israel's young King Jehoiachin, his entire court, personal military guard, ten thousand Jews, and all the craftsmen and skilled workers. This captivity was the beginning of a judgment and consequence for their rebellious sin and d

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Part 7: Fulfillment and Finish - Calling and Mission

The Reunion Community

May 30, 2020
8 min

Part 7: Fulfillment and Finish - Calling and Mission

Our teaching template has been built the last six-weeks from the revealing response of Jesus to the Pharisees in Luke 13:32-33. From that response of Jesus, we embraced the threefold "It's Just Time" message. One: Discernment and Engagement Over Demonic Forces and Evil Opposition Two: Healing and Hope For Our Sick and Suffering Three: Fulfillment and Finish of Our Calling and Mission As we open our final conversation of the "It's Just Time" series, we look to the third and fi

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Part 6: Hope That Brings Us Healing

The Reunion Community

May 24, 2020
9 min

Part 6: Hope That Brings Us Healing

I finished last Sunday, with three talking points that I need to use to continue the conversation regarding “a healing that brings hope and a hope that brings healing.” This week I want us to narrow our conversation to just include the biblical truth of Hope that Brings us Healing. One Because of the continued advance of modern medicine and medical breakthroughs in digital transplant technology, internal medicine, surgical procedures and prosthetics, and advanced physical and

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It’s Just Time: Healing and Hope - For the Sick and Suffering

The Reunion Community

May 17, 2020
10 min

It’s Just Time: Healing and Hope - For the Sick and Suffering

As Reunion continues to react and respond to the call of “It’s Just Time”, we see there is more to be done here than dragon-slaying and delivering the world from all evil. Because it is clearly in the job description, the efforts and the mission of righteous resistance does not end or go away until both us and this world passes away! And that truly is all good – so we will continue to fight the good fight of faith against demonic forces and evil opposition. But knowing that i

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It’s Just, Time - Part 4

The Reunion Community

May 10, 2020
9 min

It’s Just, Time - Part 4

We cannot engage demonic forces and evil opposition until we have first discerned the nature and intention of what has come against us – what stands at our door. Discernment is given by God, through His Holy Spirit. It is received through the insights of a mind that has been renewed by God’s word. Discerning believers will seek to grow in their understanding and knowledge of God’s truth – they will not hide or run from it. Here is biblical definition for discernment we can us

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It’s Just, Time - Part 3

The Reunion Community

May 3, 2020
9 min

It’s Just, Time - Part 3

Today’s Teaching Target is… Time for Discernment and Engagement - Over Demonic Forces and Evil Opposition Last week I laid a strong biblical foundation for the unquestionable goodness of God’s Creation and creative purpose. We can’t move forward in discernment and engagement of demonic and evil forces without acknowledging that God did not create good only to be overtaken by evil. Within the goodness of God there is no evil. There is good and there is evil… But, what God Hims

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It’s Just, Time - Part 2

The Reunion Community

Apr 27, 2020
10 min

It’s Just, Time - Part 2

Luke 13:31-33 At that time some Pharisees said to him, “Get away from here if you want to live! Herod wants to kill you!” 32 Jesus replied, “Go tell that fox that I will keep on casting out demons and healing people today and tomorrow; and the third day I will accomplish my purpose. 33 Yes, today, tomorrow, and the next day I must proceed on my way. For it wouldn’t do for a prophet of God to be killed anywhere but in Jerusalem! Today’s Target and Teaching is… Time for Discern

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It’s Just, Time

The Reunion Community

Apr 19, 2020
6 min

It’s Just, Time

Luke 13:31-35 At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.” 32 And he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I finish my course. 33 Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.’ 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and

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3 - Resurrected Savior

The Reunion Community

Apr 12, 2020
4 min

3 - Resurrected Savior

Reading: Isaiah 6, 52, Ephesians 1:19-20, John 20:1-17 Content: When the writers of the 1st and 2nd century Church talked about the power of God; their conversations were always about the resurrection. Even though thousands of Christians during that time period faced great persecution for their belief and public witness of that very resurrection. As the ones who had witnessed the Resurrected Jesus or ones were discipled by ones who had, there would never be anything as powerf

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3 - Morning After

The Reunion Community

Apr 11, 2020
3 min

3 - Morning After

Reading: Isaiah 60:1-15, 61:1-9, Mathew 27:62-66 Content: The concept of the “morning after” is an interesting one. Let’s use it in the context of someone having done something for us way beyond what was expected or deserved. In the light of the morning after, it is always humbling and almost embarrassing when someone we love sacrifices for us. Or, when someone goes to great measures to do something extraordinary and exceptional to show how much they love us. We usually think

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