Tag: faith
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The Coverdale Bible
If loving Bible study makes me a nerd, then I don’t wanna be cool. For nerds like me, even the study of different Bible translations is fascinating. Certainly the Bible should be studied from a religious perspective. It’s also valuable for its historical significance and its unparalleled influence on philosophy, art, and literature. Furthermore, it…
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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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Spiritual Growth In Easy Times
Sometimes the storms of life cause a faith to crumble away. When Jesus talked about storms, he describes them as a testing, a proof as to whether we’ve built our house on the rock or on sand. In Jesus’s analogy, what you do before the storm matters. It matters a lot.
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Carrying On When We Don’t Understand
We can always think of some tragedy horrible enough that it just doesn’t seem fair for God to allow Satan to take it that far.
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Persecution
Whether the persecution you and I face is great or small, Jesus understands. He was persecuted too. He was put to death because he was popular, his influence was growing, and his teachings didn’t fit the cultural narrative.
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Thoughts On Heaven From A Ten-Year-Old
What will heaven be like? It’s natural that kids imagine heaven as a place where you have everything you want, just the way you want it.
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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.
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Knowledge, Pride, and Love
Love edifies. If we made it our goal to edify the unbelievers around us, yes, even those who are taking pride in their sin, how might we accomplish it?
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Lists
We like lists of do’s and don’ts. If we can boil right and wrong down to a list of rules, we feel we have a better idea of where we stand and where we need to go.
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