Tag: Christianity
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Dual Citizenship
Citizenship in heaven doesn’t erase or nullify earthly citizenship. Jesus indicated that we have responsibilities to both our earthly and our heavenly countries.
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User Error In The Church
Recently I asked on my social media for people who don’t like going to church to tell me why. The church IS the people, forgiven, yet still flawed. Did God know, when He “called out” so many different people into one body, that we would have so many problems?
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Mansions In Heaven
I’ve lived in some big houses, slept in some expensive beds, and never gone without a meal unless it was by choice. I don’t feel entitled to those things, and I certainly don’t feel entitled to luxury in heaven.
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The Undiscovered Country
Sometimes change is painful. We may get so miserable in our current state that we take a step or two toward change. But then we feel that resistance. We feel those uncomfortable feelings of unfamiliar territory. And so we retreat. We “change back.”
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The Talking Dead
Perhaps you have considered what might be written on your tombstone one day, or what might be said of you at your funeral. We certainly want people to speak well of us when we’re gone. But in a sense we ourselves are still speaking, even after death, through the words that we have planted in…
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Barak — A Reluctant Leader
It is not easy to be the leader. Doesn’t the king lament that fact in Shakespeare’s Henry V? When plans fail, the leader gets all the blame, and even when he leads well, it’s usually others who benefit the most. The leader still has the pressure of maintaining and even building on any success.
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Walls Of Protection
When the Bible uses the wall-of-protection metaphor, it’s talking about defenses against Satan and his arrows. Now there’s someone who never approaches with any good intent, yet he’s so good at giving the appearance of an ally.
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Finding Things In God’s Word
Even though Jesus said, “seek and you will find,” it is possible to search the scriptures and not find eternal life.
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Faith As A Mustard Seed
With predators you don’t have to win; you just have to be more trouble than you’re worth.