When you ask a question, when you ask a question when something is presented, do you tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

If you withhold the truth, you're deceitful.

If you only tell a portion of it, you're deceptive.

Please do not imagine you can practice deception or dishonesty

and live in the blessing of the Lord. You can't do that.

Say, I'm born again, pastor, I've been baptized, I take communion, I'm grateful, I'm not suggesting that your

eternity isn't a part, you know, I'm just telling you you cannot live in the blessing. that your

I'm just telling you you cannot live in the blessing of the Lord and practice deceit and dishonest.

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It's Mother's Day weekend. I got to write two Mother's Day sermons today. That was fun.

I titled this one, women, wives, and mothers.

And it's really, I had a meeting with a friend last week.

I've known for quite a while and in the midst of the

conversation he said you know you preached a sermon on Mother's Day in 2009 that I

still refer to. Well at first I said wow and then I thought you know I

preached a lot of sermon since 2009. But then I remember that Kathy said I did a really good one in 98.

And I thought, well, 2009's pretty good improvement then so if you I went I had

had no recollection whatsoever of what Mother's Day 2009 looked like, but I went to look.

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