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III. We Have Faith:
A. You have faith.
a. Romans 12:1-3 1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual[a] act of worship. 2Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. 3For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.
1. Offer Your Bodies as Living Sacrifice
2. Don’t Conform-The Missing Key
3. Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought
4. Faith is given to every man according to God’s Will
B. Don’t Conform to the Image it will affect your faith
a. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
b. Conform (suschematizo) -Pattern or Mold
c. World
1. It is not the Kosmos-Created World
2. It is Aion-Age
i.Does not mean a period of time
ii. Aion-culture, feelings , belief, saying, speculations, impulse, and aspiration.
d. We don’t have to think like the world. It is our choice.
1. If we believe like the people that are apart of this world (Aion) we are subject to its laws and influences. This is beyond the natural things that we see, If we conform to the idea of a recession therefore we a subject to the recession.
C. Measure of Faith
a. It is my measure
1. To Believe in God
2. To Establish God’s Kingdom though my works and ministry
3. To Have the ability to trust in God
4. The ability to believe and live out the word of God.
b. God is in custom business –We are uniquely and wonderfully made and so is our measure of faith. That is why it is important to Do You. My measure of faith makes me the best me that I can be.
1. Faith To Play In the NFL
2. Faith To Be a Doctor
3. Faith to Climb Mt. Everest
4. Faith to Teach Children
c. Matthew: 17:20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief;[d] for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
1. The Key is Impossible-Mustad Seed-Nothing is Impossible.
2. Mustard Seed Faith can make anything possible in your life.

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Faith:
Definition: Faith is belief with strong conviction; firm belief in something for which there may be no tangible proof; complete trust; opposite of doubt.

Belief:
Definition: Assumed Truth.
Conviction:
Definition: An unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence.
Doubt
Definition: Doubt, a status between belief and disbelief, involves uncertainty or distrust or lack of sureness of an alleged fact, an action, a motive, or a decision. Doubt brings into question some notion of a perceived “reality”, and may involve delaying or rejecting relevant action out of concerns for mistakes or faults or appropriateness. Some definitions of doubt emphasize the state in which the mind remains suspended between two contradictory propositions and unable to assent to either of them.

Simple definition of faith: Heb 11:1
1Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. 2This is what the ancients were commended for. 3By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.
1. Faith is the substance of hope
a. “Substance”: Lit. Greek: “a standing under”
b. Faith “stands under” our hope, is the foundation of our hope: Rom 8:24.25
c. Faith is the “title-deed” our pledge to things hoped: Heb 3:14
2. Faith is what is the Ancients were commended for.
a. They were approved, qualified, worthy and entrusted.
b. Or Christian faith has its roots in lives of those who lived lives according to faith.
i. Those who live based on the things not seen
3. Faith is the conviction of things not seen: Heb 11:3
a. We believe in God not only because he exist but because he is the creator.
3. Faith accepts even that which appears unreasonable it will make you an alien in your own home: Heb. 11:13
II. Faith (Gr: pistis) used in four ways:
In the New Testament, the word faith is derived from the Greek word  – pistis or from the verb  – pisteuo, meaning to trust, to have confidence .

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Welcome to Throwback Thursday, January 28, 2010. Throwback Thursday is a journey back into time when music was music (Sounds Old), Every Thursday, I will post songs that takes you back into time a time of High Top Fades, Hammer Pants, and Cross Colors. Yes, I said Cross Colors. On Throwback Thursday, The Goal is to tell your memories of how these songs shape your life. So in the words of a famous singing group, Kick off your shoes and relax your feet. Party on down to the Xscape beat. Just kick it. Just kick it, Just kick it. Throwback Thursday. –Antonio Love

Theme: Kidz Groups

Song#1

Song#2

Song #3

Song #4

Song #5

Song #6

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If you do the same thing over and over again you will get the same results.  Even if you make the method faster, more efficient, and streamline, you will still get same results. The end results will be the same result but it happens faster, more efficient and streamlined.  What bothers me is the lack of innovation among Christians.   What does it mean to innovate?  Well I did a Google search and this is what I have found. Innovate come from the word invent.  This is what I found:

•Invention: a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation

•Invention: the creation of something in the mind the term innovation means a new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental, radical, and revolutionary changes in thinking, products…

•The act of innovating; the introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc; A change effected by innovating; a change in customs; something new, and contrary to established customs, manners, or rites; A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses

• innovative – advanced: ahead of the times; “the advanced teaching methods”; “had advanced views on the subject”; “a forward-looking corporation”; “is British …

•Innovative – being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before; “stylistically innovative works”; “innovative members of the artistic community”; “a mind so innovational, so original”

•Innovative – Characterized by the creation of new ideas or things; Forward looking; ahead of current thinking

What are we doing as Christians that is innovative?  Last week, I was looking at Sunday newspaper, in the back of the newspaper there was a listing of church advertisements. It was amazing that as I was looking at hundreds of churches, lead by different people, it all appeared that there was no distinct difference between any of them. These churches were claiming to provide something unique and different, some even using the word “New” in there identification (ex. New House of Prayer).  It appeared that these churches all offered the same methods, some faster, some efficient, some a little more streamlined, but in reality it was the same method and product.  I wonder if the world, in which Christian are supposed to save, are looking at Christians as an answer to problems that we face locally, nationally and internationally. We are faced with diverse tribulations unlike the world has never seen before. However, I believe Christians have not changed the methods of how we answer the call for help. Christianity is viewed more as insight than an answer.  In Biblical days during desperate times the world leaders turned to people who followed God. Individuals who had divine innovation were called upon to solve the nation’s problems.  Are Christians positioned to be instrumental in solving problems though innovation?  We serve a God who controls time, therefore he is timeless. Therefore, we have the ability to innovate beyond this time, even to the point of being futuristic. Instead of playing catch up we should be the ones who are on the edge of new discoveries and revolutionary changes in thinking.  God is called the creator; therefore we have the ability to create. Not find alternatives, like many Christians have done.  Were we mimicking the things in the world and often times become a cheap version of the real thing. Like wanting and IPod Touch for Christmas but your parents buys a touch screen Mp3 player. It plays music like the IPod but it does not have the quality the attention to details as the IPod Touch.  Are we the cheap knock-off to real issues?

Jesus said Matthew 24:37-44 (New International Version)

37As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

42″Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

Noah gives insight into the innovation of God. He created an ark in an environment that never seen water. He had foresight into the things that was to come. It was because of him that we all live today.  Regardless of the outcome Noah positioned himself as an answer.  I encourage you to be innovative because lives depend on us.

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It was cold. That is the only concern I could think of as I decided to take my daughter sledding for the first time. It is astonishing that  when you become a parent  you realize that life is certainly not about you it about your children. It was a Sataurday afternoon  cold, wet, and slick, but i realize that this was not about me it was about making memories.  We trecked up a huge hill to experience the magic and wonder on winter. You should have seen her.  My eyes  filled with amazement as she walked up the hill like a big girl. She was determined that today she was going sledding. All she could say was daddy come on, come on to the top of the hill! All I kept thinking is that last time I went sledding I was 25, with your mother. This moment appreas deja vu because her your appetite for the adrenaline rush is just like her mother. There she was the youngest sledder in the bunch ready to take on a hill. When we got to the top of the hill I think the lack of oxygen to the brain or me breathing hard.  Being at the top of the hill made me feel a little euphoric  as I thought I was 12 again and going sledding near Marion College in Indianapolis, IN with my father. So I hopped on the sled my daughter jumped into my lap. We gave a countdown 5-4-3-2-1 and off we go. All I could hear was my daughter yelling with excitement, as the sled started to turn backwards. It turned into a time machine. I saw my life pass before me.   Just in a flash I realize that we have drifted off course and was headed into a tree.  All I could say was, “hold on” as me and my daughter jumped off the sled and just like a kid I had a face full of snow.

The day end with us being cold and wet but full of warm memories. We arrived home and she forced me to have a tea party. (Those Pictures I Will Never Show)

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Well dine by candle light by ChrisGampat.

It is Friday, time to figure out what your plans are for the weekend. If you are single or married Dinner and Movie is still consider being a perfect date. It is easy and relatively not expensive. A dinner and a movie provides both the opportunity to stimulate dialogue (important) and it provides entertainment. It is a perfect blend date.

Rules

1. Never arrive to pick up your date late. This also includes married men. Women regardless of how long you have been in a relationship with them still want to feel like every date is the first date.

2. Don’t rush. Unless she is a Type A woman, most women hate to feel rushed. Even if they are still getting dressed rushing them causes for the date to feel like a business meeting . (Remembr: Special Moment Needs Special Preparations, always complement )

3. Pay For Dinner and the Movie. If you are single and want to warrant a second date it is important to pay the entire evening. Even if you are married and the money is coming out of the same account pay for the meal. (Special Moments Require Special Consideration.)

4. Picking the movie is possibly one of the hardest things to do that evening. Be considerate of her. Don’t assume that she wants to see what you want to see. Don’t believe she wants to see a chick flick either. A romantic comedy is always safe and an anticipated blockbuster film is safe, unless it is Star Wars. Too many people in the theater can create a romantic night to feel like a concert. Hint: Tyler Perry Movies are a must (This one you don’t have a choice).

6. After the movie use your surroundings to stimulate conversation. A pleasant summer walk in a warm breeze night is always good. (Single Guys if it is a Tyler Perry Movie, don’t go to sleep and absorb the lesson.)

7. When you take her home, escort her to the door,  compliment the delightful night you had. A goodnight kiss or a hug goes a long way. If you appear to be sincere, romantic and yourself you have given her the perfect date.

Have a Wonderful Weekend. Let me know how your evening goes.

General Rules

Eye Contact and Body Language go along way, make her feel that you are in-tuned to her conversation and you are interested in her.

Use of cell phone and texting can seriously mess up a perfect evening. If you are married, take the time make this moment feel like a first date cut the business or job off. Giver her all your attention. If you are a single dad like me put the ring on vibrate and check it at discreet moments, like when she goes to the restroom.

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Welcome to Throwback Thursday, January 14, 2010. Throwback Thursday is a journey back into time when music was music (Sounds Old), Every Thursday, I will post songs that takes you back into time a time of High Top Fades, Hammer Pants, and Cross Colors. Yes, I said Cross Colors. On Throwback Thursday, The Goal is to tell your memories of how these songs shape your life. So in the words of a famous singing group, Kick off your shoes and relax your feet. Party on down to the Xscape beat. Just kick it. Just kick it, Just kick it. Throwback Thursday. –Antonio Love

Song #1

*This was my jam!

Song #2

*Classic

Song #3

*I on a World Tour www.livelifeantoniolove.com

Song#4

*Mary was so hard.

Song#5

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There is a battle inside of me. I feel like I am torn between art, music, and creativity with the responsibility of ministry and community development. I just want to have an enjoyable life. Just like a bad dream, the burden of impacting the world calls me in the middle of the night. I desire to make a difference. My mind is constantly filled with questions. Will I continue to just have fun or will I get to the business of impacting the world? How can I combine these two? I think the issue is trying to balance myself. I like having fun, enjoying life, and being free to express myself. I am also faced with the responsibility of helping people. My mom said something profound she told me, that it is hard wanting to be average but knowing that God created you to be on center stage. That burden that you feel is purpose. I was reminded of people like Dr. Martin Luther King and President John F. Kennedy. These men lived during the same time and shared a burden to change the world. Is this what it feels like to want to organize a movement? Is this what it feels like to want impact the world? Is this what it feels like to organize the March on Washington? This burden is like an active volcano willing to erupt in any minute.

In late 2009 I made a decision that 2010 would be a year which I have decided to be. In 2010 I have risen from the ashes of yesterday and to proclaim that I am uniquely me. I will no longer live under a mask. That means merging my joy for life with the burden of trying to impact the world. That is why I moved my website from www.antoniolove.com to www.livelifeantoniolove.com I realized that all I can be is uniquely me to live my life and to share my burdens. My prayer is that I live a life that impacts the world each day. I have been created fearfully and wonderfully made. Therefore, the message is also wonderfully made. That means that my life is the message that is designed for only me to tell. This purpose of changing the world has been fashioned inside of me since I was born. I no longer fill the guilt of being who I am. I no longer feel the importance of living under expectations from people who might not understand me. As long as God understands me I am going to be okay. I will not apologize for being me.

We all have purpose inside of us. We all have a message. In 2010 let us all take off the mask and become all that God intended us to become. We all need to live our life in the wonderful. To discover the uniqueness of what God has created.

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