Tag: faith
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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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A Thank-You To My Mother-In-Law
There is some value in considering all the things that could go wrong in any given situation. There is value in awareness and preparedness. But Satan would love for us to cross the line into the realm of worry and fear over things that are extremely unlikely.
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Was Good Friday on a Thursday??
How do we reconcile Jesus only being in the tomb two nights, when he clearly said in Matthew 12:40 that it would be three?
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The Importance of Baptism
“He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe will be condemned.” Two true statements, but why did Jesus word it that way? What about the person who believes, but is not baptized?
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Does Sin Really Lead To Death?
Sin doesn’t always catch up with us right away. When consequences aren’t immediate, we may start to question whether God really knew what He was talking about.
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Doing Things God’s Way
Most of us understand, intellectually and from experience, that when we do things our own way, we tend to get ourselves into trouble. God’s way is always best. Why then do we so often insist on doing things our own way?
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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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