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Toriano Mayo wrote a new blog post: Chances are You’re a Modern Day Pharisee 22 hours, 30 minutes ago · View
0 0 1 948 5406 Hill Country Bible Church 45 12 6342 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Chances are you have a huge “woe” from Jesus hanging over your head. I think there is a Pharisee in all of us who have been following Jesus more then a year! In Matthew 23: [...] -
Toriano Mayo wrote a new blog post: Man Pleasing 4 weeks ago · View
Easily the biggest sin I deal with, and easily the most destructive, and I would guess you are close to the same.Let me ask this one major question before getting into this more. What has man done for you or given you that they are so worthy of your affection? What has man done for you [...] -
Toriano Mayo wrote a new blog post: Finishing Well 2 months, 1 week ago · View
0 0 1 552 3151 Hill Country Bible Church 26 7 3696 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Out of the 400+ leaders that are mentioned throughout Scripture, only 80 of them finish well. That means that 20% of leaders end well, what an awful number! I know that I am super young [...] -
Toriano Mayo wrote a new blog post: Laziness (Part 2) 2 months, 3 weeks ago · View
0 0 1 659 3761 Hill Country Bible Church 31 8 4412 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE In the previous post on laziness we looked through Scripture at the many different examples it gives about the lazy person, and the sinfulness in being lazy. I want to personalize this one some and [...] -
Toriano Mayo wrote a new blog post: Laziness (Part 1) 2 months, 4 weeks ago · View
0 0 1 741 4230 Hill Country Bible Church 35 9 4962 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Many times in Christianity we think about, confess, and strategically plan how not to do the “big” sins. For men pornography, lusting, pride, etc., always gets confessed with accountability partners. Women tend to deal with [...] -
Toriano Mayo wrote a new blog post: Trinity in Marriage 9 months, 2 weeks ago · View
I wrote this paper for a recently seminary class. It is pretty lengthy, but I loved writing it, if you have time, enjoy:-) Trinity in Marriage INTRODUCTION There are several mysteries in the Christian faith that are hard to explain in human terms. Some of them include Jesus being 100% man and at the exact same time being 100% [...] -
Toriano Mayo wrote a new blog post: Created fpr War 10 months, 4 weeks ago · View
So I was watching X-Men 3 last night with my wife (in response to the new X-Men movie which is good, I recommend!), and in the middle I started thinking, “Man that’d be tight to be Wolverine!” As I was thinking about running around and cutting people’s heads off I got a gentle reminder from the [...] -
Toriano Mayo wrote a new blog post: Contexualizing (or) Putting Legs to Leviticus 1 year ago · View
Okay, so I will say that this is coming from studying Leviticus for a long time in my OT class at DTS. I have been thinking, man, people don’t appreciate this part of the Scripture, but it is so rich if you simply take some time to draw it into today’s context (contextualizing). So, this didn’t [...] -
Toriano Mayo commented on the blog post When Do You Best Experience Grace? 1 year, 1 month ago · View
For sure, I would completely agree, I think that’s what I was trying to get at. Grace, by definition is something we can’t earn, however, when we strive to “know God” we will then be able to better experience His grace because we will be close to Him, and understand Him on a deeper level, [...]
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Toriano Mayo wrote a new blog post: When Do You Best Experience Grace? 1 year, 1 month ago · View
Okay, I am writing this knowing that I probably don’t have this whole idea completely understood (obviously)! I definitely haven’t perfected it and would love some dialog as to whether or not you think this is right, mainly because I don’t wanting to be teaching truth if it is not complete truth, that’s scary (James 3:1). [...] -
Toriano Mayo commented on the blog post Hearing God: A Key Component to Staying Out of Sin 1 year, 4 months ago · View
This is literally the funniest verse to me in Scripture. It is like really, that’s all you could come up with?!?
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Toriano Mayo wrote a new blog post: Hearing God: A Key Component to Staying Out of Sin 1 year, 4 months ago · View
Hearing God: A Key Component to Staying Out of Sin Okay, so here is something that I have been realizing recently, both in the Word, and in my own life. The more I hear from God, it seems like the less I sin. Ironically (not really) the same seems to be true with the people I am [...] -
Toriano Mayo wrote a new blog post: Why Do You Try to Save Yourself by Works: Yes You Christians 1 year, 5 months ago · View
You know, something has been striking me recently as sort of surprising, and really disturbing. There are so many people who claimed they are saved by grace, but then they go on living, as if they were saved by works. We see this same problem in Galatians, and for some reason we think we are far [...] -
Toriano Mayo wrote a new blog post: Are You a Tool? 1 year, 6 months ago · View
Are You a Tool? So, I was super convicted of something the other day and figured I would share it since conviction is good! It sanctifies you J 2 Timothy 2:20-21 says, “Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for [...] -
Toriano Mayo wrote a new blog post: Legalist, Are You Sure You’re Not One? 1 year, 7 months ago · View
Legalist, Are You Sure You’re Not One? So I was reading Romans the other day and came across a passage that sparked a lot of thought in my mind some years ago, and sort of re-sparked those thoughts today. Romans 7:5 says, “For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, [...] -
Toriano Mayo wrote a new blog post: Can we do this without God? 1 year, 8 months ago · View
So, I was praying today and I started to feel extremely convicted about “doing things” by my own power and strength. So, as probably everyone reading this knows, I started a new job as a small groups coordinator (and possibly Pastor, we will find out next Monday) and I thought, you know, I just need to [...] -
Toriano Mayo became a registered member 1 year, 8 months ago · View
