tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195046022011-04-21T19:47:46.970-05:00This Blog's purpose is to help keep the friends and relatives of the Hankins family up to date about what's happening in our lives as well as communicate thoughts and insights, etc. We are a family who lives to serve the King - Jesus. We desire to be a light in the darkness and salt to the earth. We are hungry for the presence of God in our own lives, and we want to be carriers of that presence everywhere we go, whether that be in the secular marketplace, the community or the local church.The Hankins Clanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801330551306733274noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19504602.post-90719354358035408622008-09-05T19:23:00.003-05:002008-09-05T19:29:24.071-05:00

Hey, we haven't even thought about this blog in forever! I forgot about it.Each member of our family now has a facebook account. If you want to see them, and add us as friends to your own facebook, shoot us an email at hankins5@suddenlink.net.Search for:David HankinsLonda HankinsDavid T HankinsCameron HankinsMicah Hankins

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"Missions is not the ultimate goal of the Church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't." -John Piper

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I often hear of how we are in a "season of grace". A common mindset seems to suggest that it frees us up from responsibility for personal holiness. This is sometimes used as an excuse to live as one pleases, and to not take personal responsibility for one's actions. People will say that their sins are forgiven before they even commit them because of grace. If that is true, then I wonder what we

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Here are some pics of DJ and Micah with their school science projects, and of Micah's most recent projects that I helped him with. Oh, and then there's Cameron with a dishsoap bubble gotee.

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OK, so it wasn't exactly ON Christmas. The boys tore into their gifts during the day of Christmas Eve. Sorry the pics are a bit fuzzy. They were taken with my camera phone. It's the best I could do. If someone buys me a good digital camera, i'll take better photos! :)

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I found myself over the Christmas holidays in prayer asking God some seriously self-revealing questions about me. Am I becoming lukewarm? If not, how would I know if I was? Would I have to depend on someone else informing me, or would I finally recognize it as an "oh my gosh, i've grown lukewarm over the past few months!" after-thought that should have been avoided in the first place?All I know

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I've been thinking a lot about the presence of God. I've thought a lot about how we go to church to be in the presence of God. I love going to church and being with other people worshipping God together, there's something so special about that. But if we depend on that for the presence of God in our lives we are missing out on so much. There are times right now that I can be out in a store or

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I just want to tell all our family and friends Merry Christmas.May your holiday be filled with memories of why we celebrate Christmas in the first place. It's all about Jesus! If He had not been born, He would not have lived to die. Had He not died, He would not have rose again and ascended, and we would not have the hope we have today.-David

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The Aroma of Jesus 2 Cor. 2:14-16 It’s been said that an aroma is the fragrance of activity, and it’s true. -if you exercise, you get the natural odor that accompanies it -if you eat garlic, everyone gets the benefit of what you ate from your breath -if you’ve had coffee, people can smell it on you and your breath -if you take a

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The message below was originally an article I wrote, and then it developed into a message I preached/taught in our home church I was pastoring. Today, I felt inclined to resubmit it again, with slight revisions, in written format. I hope it speaks to you. As I studied and prepared it back then, my own understanding of God's expectations, and my concept of holiness took on new meaning. I'd love to

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A few years ago, a book entitled The Wisdom Hunter impacted me profoundly. It's a Christian novel written by Randall Arthur about the trap of legalistic Christianity. It's not necessarily a book that will go down in history as a classic, but the insights one can glean from it are priceless. I took the liberty back then to paraphrase and quote some of those insights, and occasionally I read back

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Lately, I've been doing some deep reflecting on my attitude about what many are now calling the "institutional" or "organized" Church. Regardless of what we may label it, this is the bride of Christ. I concede that she may be tarnished, tainted and sickly in many ways. I even believe she is what I call a paraplegic bride, meaning (according to Webster's) the body does not work correctly or

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Anyone that knows us knows that we desire to be in the will of God for our lives. That means we are constantly aware of change in seasons. Sometimes this is not so easy.The latest news is that we are no longer pastoring the church we planted two years ago. For a while, we were feeling change was in the air, and just a few weeks ago, we made the difficult decision to initiate the change. This was

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Crazy! 

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As of Thanksgiving 05, their ages are:David (DJ) - 15Cameron - 13Micah - 10David is itching to get a part-time job and start driving. Yikes! He still loves to draw and read and spend time on the computer researching the latest Christian music or doing computer graphics. He's quite good! He still plans on being a missionary to Africa. That's not too far away now (Yikes!).Cameron is a skater with

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Hey there! This is the first official blog on the Hankins Clan blog site!Testing, testing, 1,2,3...

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