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... Individuality is played down. We are asked to conform to the “system.”
This results in what I’d like to call an image syndrome , especially among the members of God’s family called Christians. My mind lands upon a fig-picker from ...
... wearing 200 pounds of armour. It may seem silly, but that's the way God operates. In the final analysis, there was a whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—one ...
... have you adopted? Are you compelled to approach a problem the same way every time? Does a maverick (even wild) idea challenge you or make ... just the way I am; I can't change," then you are limiting God, discounting His power and denying His presence. He's offering you an ...
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Years ago my older son, then a teenager, and I dropped by the local Hallmark shop to find Cynthia a card for Mother's Day. Somewhat bored with the process, Curt wandered back to the posters and soon called me to come look ...
... He does not reply, “I’ve got an argument here.” On the contrary, He says, “I retract and repent.” There’s no divine force. There’s no threatening rebuke from God. “Job, if you don’t get down on your knees and beg for mercy from Me, ...
... apply to anyone who is graduating. My thoughts grow out of the final four verses of 2 Timothy 3.
1. Don't stop your learning ... and assures Timothy that "all Scripture is inspired by God and profitable...that the man [and the woman] of God may be adequate, ...
... we must learn. It isn't a trait we're born with. But the question is how ? In 1 Timothy 6 we find a couple of very practical ... beyond that we'd do well to consider as extra.
God's Word offers this advice: Contentment is possible when we stop striving ...
... Heaven is an actual place. A prepared place, designed for God’s redeemed people, those who have accepted God’s free gift of His salvation through His Son’s death on the cross.
Jesus said to His anxious followers:
“Don’t let your ...
... Jesus did. "Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness" (Matthew 5:10). I don't know how this strikes you, but it seems misplaced at first glance. Especially on the heels of what we have learned about being "peacemakers." But it is not ...
As we read the Bible, we can be tempted just to focus on the parts we understand well and skip over those subjects that are mysterious and confusing. The third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, is surely one of those ...
The Promised Land! If it was mentioned once, it must have been mentioned a ... Hebrews to leave Mount Sinai. By then, there was no doubt of God’s blessing: the heaven-sent cloud by day and the fire by night, Moses’s ... tragedy struck. At a crucial juncture, the people doubted God’s promise and retreated into unbelief. The result? Monotonous wandering ...
Reality in the raw—that’s what the Bible gives us. It tells us the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. And the truth it tells ...
Someone has called the writer of 2 Corinthians “The Transparent Apostle,” for here, as in no ... the strong words and forceful style is a heart tender toward God and committed to ministry—a beautiful, rare blend of strength and ... how Christians should respond to suffering. He highlighted God’s role as the perfect comforter. Paul also showed believers the ...
In Genesis, we see humanity ruined by the fall. In Exodus, God’s people are redeemed from bondage. In Leviticus, ... many Christians today choose to ignore its contents. But God has preserved Leviticus for a particular purpose.
As is the case with ...
... times can be disconcerting. Those who have gone through the remodeling of a home can testify to that! Likewise, changes in leadership ... just as much as they alter the stock market. For centuries, God governed His people Israel. Throughout His theocratic rule, God used His ...
The prophet Haggai is unique for two reasons.
He is the only person in all the Old Testament with the name Haggai
His is the ... two chapters
But more importantly, Haggai was God’s spokesman sent to awaken and arouse the post-captivity Jews from their ...
Someone has correctly coined Jude’s letter with the title “The Acts of the Apostates.” The primary apostates in the first century were ...
We can draw some relevant analogies between the ancient Hebrews and our modern-day churches. In the process, we will discover that even though centuries separate us, some of ...
On the last night of Jesus' life on earth, He established a principle that has endured in the life of the Church from the first century to the present day—the world ... study the story of Christ's Church is to trace the finger of God across the timeline of human history.
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... move on to cynicism. Before long, we trust no one, not even God. We've been burned. We've been taken advantage of; we've been mistreated....
The cause of disillusionment and the cure for it can be expressed in almost the ...
