Last night my family and my Mom and Dad took Granny Hobbs out to her favorite Restaurant for her 91st Birthday. Old Salty’s has some of the best food in Carolina Beach, NC and sits right on the boardwalk where she spent many years working. Brenda, the owner, led everyone in the bar and restaurant [...]
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“Even though you have ten thousand teachers in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ I became your father through the Gospel.” I Corinthians 4:15 We have a lust for knowledge in our world. We always want to know and we feel an obligation to help everyone else to know what we know. [...]
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“It is ingrained in us that we have to do exceptional things for God – but we do not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things of life, and holy on the ordinary streets, among ordinary people – and this is not learned in five minutes.” Oswald Chambers Discipleship is a process. It’s moment [...]
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Brace yourself. I am haunted by what you are about to read. So I don’t take away from these words I will not say anything else except, please excuse my lack in poetic structure. I copied this by ear. The words are correct but may not be written out like it should as a poem. [...]
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“…whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:5 (ESV) “Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails…” 1 Corinthians 13:7-8 (ESV) In John 15 there are several things Paul said [...]
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“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than someone lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:12-13 (ESV) There is a high price for love. You can have it for free but it will cost everything. You cannot love without paying [...]
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Blessings to all of you who frequently follow and support John W. Hobbs and Maranatha Ministries. Over the next month we will be updating John’s website to better serve you with resources, teaching, personal and ministry updates, as well as scheduled events in your area. Your support and input is an invaluable resource to us. Please [...]
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