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What if the fruit of lips that confess Jesus as Lord isn\u2019t the words we speak or the songs we sing? What if those are the seeds that are supposed to bear fruit in a $\"jimkastkeat_headshot_7\"$ whole life\u2019s devotion to God? The fruit, then, is the life of faithfulness.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a trail I run down this week with Jim Kast-Keat<\/a> on the LectioCast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are several threads that run through this week\u2019s Lectionary texts, including the fact that God has great expectations for God\u2019s people. When God acts as deliverer the delivered should be ready to stand up as those who bring freedom and abundance to the people around them. And if we believe that God has acted as deliverer then we should also be willing to entrust ourselves to God, knowing that God will lavish upon us more than we could ever hope to glean for ourselves.<\/p>\n

Check it out on LectioCast.com<\/a> or subscribe on iTunes!<\/p>\n

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