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Forgiving One Another (Part One)
Read more: Forgiving One Another (Part One)The fact is we want to be forgiven much more than we want to forgive. But Jesus says we can’t have it that way. There is no getting around his simple teaching.
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Lost In Translation
Read more: Lost In TranslationEver since Babel, language has been a confusing thing. And it isn’t just foreign languages that cause problems. Sometimes we can even be confused by our own language!
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How’s the Weather?
Read more: How’s the Weather?A thorough study of the Israelites in the Old Testament will make a person wonder why God ever chose them to be His “special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth,” (Deuteronomy 7:6).
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Staying Teachable
Read more: Staying TeachableAll of us, perhaps teachers especially, need to remain teachable. Even if I am a teacher, more than that I am a student, a disciple of Jesus.
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Get In The Groove
Read more: Get In The GrooveWhatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.Ecclesiastes 9:10 I have one student who is particularly observant. Recently he noticed a small groove in the top of a door frame. A little investigation revealed…
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Dependent Faith
Read more: Dependent FaithGod expects us to have a sense of commitment to each other, right? What does scripture require us to do for “one another”?
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Independent Faith
Read more: Independent FaithAt my first defense no one stood with me, but all forsook me. May it not be charged against them.2 Timothy 4:16 Recently on Facebook I threatened to turn this into a blog about laundry after I posted a question on the topic and received scores of replies. I hadn’t realized what an interesting subject…
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When Emotions Wash Over Us
Read more: When Emotions Wash Over UsHear me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good;Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.And do not hide Your face from Your servant. Psalm 69:16-17a Recently I shared a bit about my first trip to Mexico back in the summer of 1990. I had just graduated high school, and since I…
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Figure of the Father
Read more: Figure of the FatherAnd he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.Luke 5:20 They say that parents, and fathers in particular, are a child’s first picture of what God is like. To a…
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Re-wiring Our Self-Talk
Read more: Re-wiring Our Self-TalkWhatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.Philippians 4:8 I’m really bad about talking to myself. I’ve even had strangers call me on…
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